Marie-Anne Gowora

Anne-Marie Gowora is a Zimbabwean judge who currently serves as a justice of the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe since 2012. Previously, she served on the High Court of Zimbabwe beginning in 2000.

Education Gowora attended the University of Rhodesia (today the University of Zimbabwe), where she studied law in a multiracial class of 38 students, including whites, blacks, Coloureds, and Indians. Among her former law classmates are prominent Harare lawyer George Chikumbirike, and judges Ishmael Chatikobo, Moses Chinhengo, and Jacqueline Pratt. At the time she was appointed to the High Court bench, she was a partner in a private law firm. In 2000, President Robert Mugabe appointed her to the High Court of Zimbabwe, along with three others, including Rita Makarau, her former law firm partner. Acting Justice Yunus Omerjee was also supposed to be sworn in that day, but he was out of the country. In 2013, Gowora was appointed to the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe, which is part of the Supreme Court.