{"id":17301,"date":"2017-03-23T18:28:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T17:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=17301"},"modified":"2017-11-06T12:33:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T11:33:41","slug":"mukhtar-justice-aloma-maryama","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/mukhtar-justice-aloma-maryama\/","title":{"rendered":"MUKHTAR, Justice Maryama Aloma"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LLB., B.L; Jurist, Administrator, first Nigerian woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Nigeria; Date of Birth: November 20, 1944; Birth Place: Lagos; State of Origin: Kano; Education: St. George&#8217;s School, Zaria and St. Bartholomew&#8217;s School, Wusasa, Zaria, 1950-57; Rossholme School for Girls, East Brent, Somerset, England, 1962; Reading Technical College, Reading, Bershire, England, 1963; Gibson and Weldon College of Law, 1966; Nigerian Law School, 1966-67; Career: called to the English Bar, 1966; called to the Nigerian Bar, 1967; Pupil State Counsel, Ministry of Justice, Northern Nigeria 1967; Legal Draftsman, Interim Common Services Agency, 1968-69; State Counsel, Ministry of Justice, North-Eastern State of Nigeria, 1969-71; first female Magistrate, Northern State, 1971; first Chief Registrar, High Court of Northern Nigeria, 1973-87; first female Chief Judge in Nigeria, 1978; first female Justice, Court of Appeal, 1987, Bencher, since 1993; President, National Association of Women Judges of Nigeria, 1991-97; Vice President, International Association of Women Judges 1992-94; Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, since 2005; Life member, Federation of Women Lawyers; Fellow: Nigeria Law School, 2004; Honor: by the Federation of Women Lawyers, 2003; by the International Association of Women Lawyers; Gold Merit Award, by Kano State Government, 1991; Present Address: Supreme Court of Nigeria Three Arms, Complex Zone, P.M:B. 308. Garki, Abuja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[749,165],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-17301","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-administrator","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17301","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\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22778,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/17301\/revisions\/22778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17301"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=17301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}