| Honorific-Prefix: | Sir |
| Samuel Bankole-Jones | |
| Order2: | Chief Justice of Sierra Leone |
| Term Start2: | 1963 |
| Term End2: | 1965 |
| Predecessor2: | Salako Benka-Coker |
| Successor2: | Gershon Collier |
| Birth Name: | Samuel Bankole-Jones |
| Birth Date: | 1911 |
| Death Date: | 1981 |
| Profession: | Jurist, Justice |
Sir Samuel Bankole-Jones (1911- 1981) was a Sierra Leonean judge of the Supreme Court and later Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone. He was awarded a Knighthood of the British Empire in 1965.[1]
Born in 1911 to Sierra Leone Creole parents, Bankole-Jones attended Methodist Boys' High School in Freetown and later Fourah Bay College, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1932. He later attended Durham University, followed by the Middle Temple, before being called to the Bar in 1938.
Bankole-Jones worked as a magistrate, a puisne judge, before his appointment as Chief Justice in 1963.[2] He became the first Sierra Leonean president of the Court of Appeal in 1965.[3] He was later appointed as Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone in 1969 and Judge of the Supreme Court in 1971.