{"id":17169,"date":"2017-03-23T13:05:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T12:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17169"},"modified":"2017-05-30T23:09:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T22:09:57","slug":"sowemimo-justice-george-sodeinde","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/sowemimo-justice-george-sodeinde\/","title":{"rendered":"SOWEMIMO, Justice George Sodeinde"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LLB, BL, retired chief justice of Nigeria, born November 8, 1920, Zaria, Kaduna State; mar ried Juliana Bolaji 1950, five sons, four daughters; Education: Holy Trinity School, Kano, 1930-36, CMS Grammar School, Lagos, 1937-40, University of Bristol, England, 1945-48, called to the English Bar, Middle Temple, London, December, 1948, enrolled as Barrister of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, March 1949; worked at the Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1941-44; appointed Magistrate, 1951-56; Chief Magistrate, 1956-59; Chief Registrar, High Court, Lagos, 1959-60; Chief Registrar, Supreme Court of Nigeria, August 1960-January 1961; acting judge, FebruaryMay 1961; appointed High Court Judge, former Federal Territory of Lagos, 1961-70; appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, 1970-85; appointed Chief Justice of Nigeria, October 1983-November 1985; member, Commission of Enquiry into the Banso Riot, Southern Cameroons, 1956; Na tional Honour: honoured with Commander of the Order of Federal Republic (CFR), 1980; Hobbies: billiards, swimming; Address: 26, Lugard Avenue, Ikoyi, Lagos State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17169","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17169"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}