Luvenia Ash-Thompson

Luvenia V. Ash-Thompson is a Liberian judge, academic and educator.

Life Luvenia Ash-Thompson received primary and secondary education at the Lott Carey Mission School in Brewerville, Liberia. She gained her undergraduate degree from Franklin College in Indiana in 1957, and gained a law degree from Drake University Law School in 1962. She became counsel and later probate judge in Montserrado County.

Ash-Thompson returned to Liberia in 1970, and became Assistant Professor at the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law, University of Liberia.

When supporters of Samuel Doe objected to the Liberian Action Party's registration in April 1985, Ash-Thompson ruled that their objections were "nothing more than a legal mischief which [...] would result in upsetting and delaying the due process of law".

In 1986 she founded a private school, the Ash-Thompson Memorial Academy. The school was destroyed three times in the civil war, and each time Ash-Thompson rebuilt it. In May 1998 she declined a nomination as chief justice of the Liberian Supreme Court in order that she might continue rebuilding the academy.

In 1998 she received an honorary doctorate from Franklin College.