Honorific-Prefix: | Justice |
Nasiru Sulemana Gbadegbe | |
Office: | Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana |
Term Start: | 2009 |
Term End: | 2020 |
Appointer: | John Atta Mills |
Office1: | Appeal Court Judge |
Nominator1: | Jerry John Rawlings |
Term Start1: | 1999 |
Term End1: | 2009 |
Office2: | High Court Judge |
President2: | Jerry John Rawlings |
Term Start2: | 1989 |
Term End2: | 1999 |
Birth Date: | 8 December 1950 |
Birth Place: | Ghana |
Nationality: | Ghanaian |
Profession: | Judge |
Nasiru Sulemana Gbadegbe is a Ghanaian lawyer and judge. He was a justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana between 2009 and 2020.
Gbadegbe hails from the Volta Region of Ghana. He was born on 8 December 1950.[1] He obtained his bachelor of laws (LLB) degree in 1973 from the University of Ghana and subsequently received his qualifying Certificate in Law from the Ghana School of Law in 1975.[1]
Prior to Gbadegbe's appointment to the Supreme Court of Ghana in 2009, he had served on the Ghaanaian bench for twenty (20) years.[1] He was appointed Justice of the High Court in 1989 and served in that capacity for a decade.[1] In 1999, he was elevated to the Court of Appeal and he remained in that post until 2009 when he was appointed justice of the Supreme Court.[1]
Gbadegbe was nominated in 2009 by then president of Ghana, John Evans Atta Mills. He was vetted on Monday 12 October 2009[2] and approved unanimously by parliament on 30 October that same year.[1] He was sworn into office by the then president on 2 November 2009.[3]
Gbadegbe retired in December 2020 from the Supreme Court after giving his valedictory judgement after thirty one years service in the judiciary.[4] [5]