Ayotunde Phillips
| Ayotunde Phillips | |
|---|---|
| Chief Judge of Lagos State | |
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In office June 2012 – July 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Inumidun Akande |
| Succeeded by | Oluwafunmilayo Olajumoke Atilade |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
26 July 1949 London |
Ayotunde Phillips (born September 24, 1952) is a Nigerian Jurist and former Chief Judge of Lagos State.[1][2]
Early life
Ayotunde Phillips was born on July 26, 1949 in London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom by the late Justice James Oladipo Williams and Henrietta Aina Williams, a Lagos state born judge.[3] He had her primary education in London before she returned to Nigeria with her sibling, Justice Oluwafunmilayo Olajumoke Atilade.[4] She obtained the West Africa School Certificate Examination at Queen's College, Lagos before she proceeded to the University of Lagos where she obtained a bachelor's degree in Law on June 1973. She completed the compulsory one year Youth Service at Enugu State Ministry of Justice and was Call to the bar in 1974.[5]
Law career
She started her career at Kehinde Sofola's Chambers on November 1975, a year after she was Call to the bar. She left the chamber on September 1976 to join the services of the Lagos State Development and Property Corporation as a legal Officer and rose to the position of legal adviser in 1990, the same year she got a transfer to the Ministry of Justice where she attained the rank of a High Court Judge in 1994.[6] On July 2012, she was appointed as the Chief Judge by Babatunde Fashola and after her retirement on June 2014, she was succeeded by Justice Oluwafunmilayo Olajumoke Atilade, her younger sister.[7][8][9]
References
- ↑ "Moral issues raised over Lagos Chief Judge’s book launch. - P.M. NEWS Nigeria". pmnewsnigeria.com.
- ↑ "JUSTICE AYOTUNDE PHILLIP’s son marries baby mama". Encomium Magazine.
- ↑ "Justice Ayotunde Phillips Archives - The Nation". The Nation.
- ↑ "Chief Justice Of Lagos Ayotunde Phillips Retires, Younger Sister Funmi Atilade To Replace Her". Nigerian Movies Nigerian News And Nigerian Entertainment News.
- ↑ "And Philips steps in". The Punch - Nigeria's Most Widely Read Newspaper.
- ↑ Our Correspondent. "New Telegraph – Lagos CJ: Historic succession of two sisters". newtelegraphonline.com.
- ↑ "Atilade, fifth Lagos woman Chief Judge sworn-in". newsafricanow.com.
- ↑ "Fashola Swears in Atilade as Lagos Chief Judge, Articles - THISDAY LIVE". thisdaylive.com.
- ↑ "Atilade makes history, succeeds sibling as acting Lagos Chief Judge". Vanguard News.