Pray for me so I can finish well - Georgina Wood

The Chief Justice, Her Ladyship Georgina Theodora Wood has ahead of her retirement asked her friends, colleagues and the entire country to pray for her indicating that “although it’s not ended, this is rather when I need His (God) grace and support more.”

The first female Chief Justice who will be retiring later in May 2017 due to the statutes of Ghana, which allows her and any other Justice of the Superior Courts, to voluntarily retire upon reaching the age of 60 or S/He can stay on until the compulsory retirement age of 70, was addressing members of the Bench and Bar of the Ghanaian Judiciary at the special church service to open the 59th Legal Year.

She said, “Brothers and sisters please thank the Lord for me. Although its not ended, eight months more, this is rather when I need his grace and support more. I thank each one of you my colleagues on the Supreme Court who have faithfully worshiped with me year after year… I thank you all for your continuing prayer and support.

I know thousands of people – that one is not lost on me… Thousands of people have borne me before the Lord and this is the reason why the Lord, in answer to their prayer, sustained me and kept me till this day.” “One of the promises I believe in is what God says that if you give a cup of water to a prophet, you shall receive a prophets reward.

So for all those who have interceded for me, may the Lord meet each one of you at your point of need and may he bless you abundantly,” the Lady Chief Justice said. Theodora Georgina Wood was nominated for the position of Chief Justice of Ghana in May 2007. On 1 June 2007,the Parliament of Ghana approved her nomination as the new Chief Justice of Ghana by consensus.

Since taking office, she has sworn-in three Presidents, the late President John Evans Atta-Mills in January 2009, then Vice-President John Dramani Mahama upon the death of the President on 24 July 2012 and President-Elect John Dramani Mahama, winner of the December 2012 General Elections on 7 January 2013.

Georgina Wood (née Lutterodt) was born on 8 June 1947 in Ghana. She had her basic education at Bishop's Girls and Methodist Schools, Dodowa. She next attended Mmofraturo Girls School, Kumasi between 1958 and 1960. Georgina Wood's secondary education was at Wesley Girls' High School, Cape Coast, which she completed in 1966.

She proceeded to the University of Ghana, Legon, where she was awarded the LL.B. in 1970. Georgina Wood then attended the Ghana Law School after which she was called to the bar.

She has also done the Post-Graduate Officers Training Course at the Ghana Police College. Madam Georgina Wood, which means she attains the ripe old age of wisdom -70 in June 2017, hence her hint of exiting the position of the third highest arm of government.