Inumidun Akande | |
Office1: | Chief Judge of Lagos State |
Term Start1: | 8 August 2009 |
Term End1: | 10 June 2012 |
Predecessor3: | Augustine Alabi |
Successor3: | Ayotunde Phillips |
Birth Date: | 1947 6, df=yes |
Inumidun Akande (born 10 June 1947) is a Nigerian jurist and former Chief Judge of Lagos State.[1] [2]
She attended Holy Trinity Primary School at Ebute Ero, a metropolitan city of Lagos State southwestern Nigeria before she proceeded to Ijebu Ode Grammar School, Ogun State, Nigeria, where she obtained the West Africa School Certificate in 1966.[3] She received a bachelor's degree in Law from the University of Lagos in 1970.She graduated from the Nigerian Law School in 1971 and was Call to the bar on June 16, 1971.[4]
She joined the Lagos State Judiciary in the early 1970s and served at the Ministry of Justice as Director of Legislative Drafting, before she got a transfer to the National Assembly, Lagos as Assistant Chief Legal Draftsman in 1983.[5] She was appointed to the Lagos bench on August 8, 1989.[6] She was appointed Chief Judge of Lagos State on September 8, 2009, two years after Babatunde Fashola, the Lagos State Governor assumed office.[7] Inumidun retired from service on June 10, 2012, at the age of 65 and was succeeded by Ayotunde Phillips, the 14th Chief Judge of Lagos State.[8]