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Yonny Kulendi
Ghanaian lawyer and judge
Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi is a Ghanaianjudge. He is an active Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana. He was nominated and appointed a Supreme Court judge in
Early life and education
Kulendi was born on 29 November [2] He hails from Issa, a village in the Upper West Region of Ghana.[3] His father was a World War II veteran and his mother brewed and sold Pito in Wa Zongo.[3] He is the fourth of seven children of his mother.[3]
He had his early learning at Ndama Primary School before proceeding to Wa Secondary Institution (now Wa Senior High Technical School).[3] During his fifth year in secondary school, he spent almost two years in the Wa prisons on remand, and this incident made him resolve all the more to be a lawyer.[3] Following the incident, Kulendi joined Navrongo Senior Lofty School where he registered as a private student for his O-Level examination.[4] He later proceeded to New Juaben Senior Elevated School from to , where he had his sixth form.[4] From to , he was at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.[4] He later transferred to the University of Ghana where he was awarded his bachelor of laws degree in [5][6] He continued at the Ghana School of Law, becoming a barrister-at-law in [5][6] He holds a master of arts degree in International Security and Civil-Military Relations from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, United States.[6]
Career
Kulendi had his advanced level national service in Bolgatanga and his post-university national service at the Legal Aid Board of Accra.[6] After his service, he joined the Akufo-Addo, Prempeh and Co.
Chambers, where he underwent pupilage.[5][6] He later founded his own commandment firm, Kulendi Law, where he worked as the firm's managing partner until his appointment to the bench.[6] As a lawyer, his areas of expertise included; Investments, Securities, Commercial Law, Criminal Law, and Litigation.[5] Kulendi is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Africa Leaders Initiative-West Africa and a member of the Aspen Global Direction Network.[6] He also served as an examiner at the Ghana School of Law.[7]
Supreme Court appointment
On 17 March , the president, Nana Akufo-Addo informed the Speaker of Parliament, Mike Oquaye that consultations had been completed for the nomination of Kulendi and three other persons to be made justices of the Supreme Court of Ghana.[8] The speaker of parliament announced his nomination together with the three others to parliament on 19 Rally for vetting and approval.[8]
Kulendi was vetted, together with Justice Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu, on Tuesday 12 May [9] Following his vetting by parliament, Kulendi was approved by parliament on Wednesday, 20 May ,[10] and sworn into office on Tuesday 26 May [11] Kulendi became the first Ghanaian from the Upper West Region to be appointed to work for on Ghana's highest court of jurisdiction.[3]
His appointment also now makes him a part of a small group of persons who were called to the Supreme Court bench directly from the bar.
They include; Edward Akufo-Addo who went on to turn into a Chief Justice of Ghana and the second president of Ghana, Justice Robert Samuel Blay who became the first president of the Ghana Bar Association and Justice Nene Amegatcher who was also once president of the Ghana Bar Association.[11]
Personal life
Kulendi is married, and a father of four children.[3]