Willy Mutunga

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Willy Mutunga

Willy Mutunga (born June 16, 1947 in the Kitui District ) is a Kenyan lawyer and since 2011 the highest judge ( Chief Justice ) of Kenya and thus President of the Supreme Court of Kenya .

Life

His first law degree was a Bachelor of Law from the University of Nairobi . This was followed by a Master of Laws from Dar Es Salaam University and a doctorate from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto . Mutunga has appeared as an activist for democracy in Kenya since the 1970s . He was involved in numerous civil rights organizations and was a member of the university employees' union . Because of his commitment, he came into opposition to the Daniel Arap Mois government , which led to his imprisonment in 1982 and 1983. Since his arrest, he has also campaigned for the rights of political prisoners . From 1993 to 1995 he was chairman of the Law Society of Kenya . After five years of program director for human and women's rights, he became a representative for the Ford Foundation in East Africa in 2009 .

Mutunga was nominated as Chief Justice of Kenya in May 2011 . The objection to his nomination was that he might have too little practice as a judge. There was also a discussion because he had campaigned for homosexual rights . After confirmation by the President and Parliament, Mutunga took his oath of office on August 29, 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Ford Foundation press release of June 16, 2011
  2. Glena Nyamwaya, JSC nominates Mutunga, Baraza for CJ and deputy , KBC News from May 13, 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kbc.co.ke  
  3. JSC nominates Dr Willy Mutunga and Ms Nancy Baraza , Kenyan lawyer blogspot
  4. Peter Anaminyi, Kenya is on the verge of a 'Gene Robinson' moment , The Guardian, June 2, 2011.
  5. Jennie Ryan, Kenya swears in first Supreme Court justices , jurist.org, August 29, 2011