Honorific-Prefix: | Justice |
John Debra Sapong | |
Office: | Supreme Court Judge |
Term Start: | 15 April 1999 |
Term End: | 2 June 2000 |
Appointer: | Jerry John Rawlings |
Birth Date: | December 1929 |
Birth Place: | Gold Coast |
Nationality: | Ghanaian |
John Debra Sapong (born December 1929) was a Ghanaian judge and barrister. He served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana from 1999 to 2000.
Sapong was born December 1929 in the Gold Coast.[1] He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn.[2] He began his judicial career as a District Magistrate in Accra.[3] He later became a Circuit Court judge stationed in Koforidua in the 1970s.[4] He rose through the ranks through the Appeal Court[5] to become a Supreme Court Judge in 1999. He was nominated in 1999 and vetted on 10 March[6] that year together with Josiah Ofori Boateng. He was approved by parliament on 30 March 1999[1] and was sworn in on 15 April 1999.[7] He retired on 2 June 2000.[8]