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Born on June 8, 1947 Mrs Justice Wood attended Bishop’s Girls and Methodist Schools.
She had her LLB (Hons) from the University of Ghana, Legon in 1970 after completing Wesley Girls High School, Cape Coast in 1966. She took a six-month Post-Graduate Officers Training Course at the Ghana Police College.
She joined the Judicial Service as a District Magistrate Grade II and was later promoted to Grade I. She was promoted to the Court of Appeal as a presiding judge in 1991.
Mrs Justice Wood last year chaired the Georgina Wood Committee that conducted an enquiry into the disappearance of 77 packets of cocaine from the MV Benjamin vessel on April 26, 2006, as well as the 588kg cocaine seized from some Venezuelans at Mempeasem, East Legon.
Mrs Justice Wood was first nominated to the Supreme Court in 2003, at the time of the Fast Track Review Case, alongside the late Justice Afreh – a nomination she initially turned down. She is the Chairperson of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanism.
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