Nancy Baraza

Nancy Baraza is a Kenyan lawyer who was named Kenya's first Deputy Chief Justice, the first Vice President of the Supreme Court of Kenya , in 2011.

Life

At the time of her appointment as Vice President of the Supreme Court, Nancy Baraza had thirty years of legal practice. She was temporarily the chair of the Federation of Women Lawyers of Kenya and a member of the Yash Pal Ghai's Constitution of Kenya Review Commission , which did important preparatory work on the constitutional draft adopted in the 2010 constitutional referendum . In 2008 she became a member of the Kenya Law Reform Commission and in 2011 a board member of the Media Council of Kenya's Ethics and Complaints commission . On May 14, 2011, she was nominated as Duputy Chief Justice by the Judicial Service Commission . The theses of her doctoral thesis, which deals with the rights of homosexuals and which she was working on at the time of nomination, were debated. After confirmation by President Mwai Kibaki and Parliament, Baraza took her oath of office as Deputy Chief Justice on August 29, 2011 .

Threat affair

On January 4, 2012, allegations became known that she had threatened a security officer while entering a shopping mall after he had insisted that she too should undergo general investigations.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NzauMusau, Deputy CJ nominee Baraza what team in Ghai , The Latest Kenyan News from May 14, 2011
2. ↑ Moses Njagih , The Standard, May 14, 2011 ( Memento November 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ John Ngirachu / Njeri Rugene, Kenya: Private Lives of CJ, Deputy Nominees Queried , AllAfrica.com, June 7, 2011
4. ↑ Jennie Ryan, Kenya swears in first Supreme Court justices , Jurist.org, August 29, 2011
5. ↑ Muliro Telewa, Kenyan senior judge Nancy Baraza in security guard row , BBC News Africa from January 4, 2012