Agnes Dordzie

Agnes Mercy Abla Dordzie is a Ghanaian judge. She was an active justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana until October 2022. She was appointed justice of the Supreme Court in 2018.

Dordzie was born in Taviefe-Deme in the Volta Region. After her studies at the Ghana School of Law, she was called to the bar. She worked as a state attorney and a private legal practitioner prior to serving on the bench. She has served on the bench from magistrate level to the Supreme Court of Ghana.

Early life and education Dordzie was born 2 October 1952 at Taviefe-Deme in the Volta Region of Ghana.

She began schooling at the Roman Catholic Primary School at Taviefe-Deme from 1957 to 1962. A month later, she moved to Nigeria on a contract appointment to work with the Minister of Justice at Calabar, Cross River State as a state council. From December 2003 to November 2005, she was the supervising High Court judge of the Ashanti Region. she was appointed by the Commonwealth Secretariat on the secondment of the Judiciary of Ghana to serve as a High Court judge in The Gambia. Dordzie was appointed justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana in 2018.

Appointment Dordzie was nominated together with three other judges (Samuel Marful-Sau, Justice Professor Nii Ashie Kotey and Justice Nene Amegatcher) by the president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo in 2018. After the names were sent to parliament, there were claims that her appointment and the appointment of Justice Samuel Marful-Sau were rewards and not justified as their promotions occurred after they (Justice Samuel Marful-Sau and Justice Agnes Dordzie) recommended that Electoral Commission Chair, Mrs. Charlotte Osei and her deputies be removed from office. The government however dismissed these claims claiming the nominations were in consultation with the Council of State and based on the advice of the Judicial Council. She was vetted in August 2018 and sworn into office in October 2018.