The Minority Spokesman on Constitutional, Parliamentary and Legal Affairs has hailed former Chief Justice Georgina Wood for showing leadership during the 2012 election petition.

He made the comments in parliament when contributing to a statement made by the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu in honour of the retired Chief Justice of the land.

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“Everybody in this country was disturbed that the Chief Justice having been an In-law of a very active political participant in this country might be perceived not to have dispensed justice but Mr. Speaker, she showed leadership,” he said.

He continued: “She constituted the panel excluding herself from sitting to adjudicate the case – that is the mark of leadership and in I think she deserves the respect of all Ghanaians for having steered the affairs of the Judiciary.”

Georgina Wood retired from public service on Wednesday, June 7, after becoming the first female Chief Justice.

Georgina Wood will become a member of the Council of State, since the advisory council to the president must also include a former Chief Justice.

Mrs. Wood is replaced by Justice Sophia A.B Akuffo, who was appointed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

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Her name has since been submitted to the Appointments Committee of Parliament for vetting.

Georgina Wood worked with the Ghana Police Service as a deputy superintendent and public prosecutor for three years before joining the Judicial Service as a District Magistrate in 1974.

She rose through the Circuit and High Courts to become the presiding judge of the Appeal Court in 1991 and was then appointed to the Supreme Court on November 12, 2002.