About Sotonye Denton-West
Born 1946. Sotonye Denton-West is a Nigerian lawyer and judge.
Sotonye Denton-West is a Nigerian judge and first female presiding as chief judge of the High Court of Rivers State, Nigeria. She is the first female judge from Rivers State to be appointed to the court of appeal.
Education Denton-West is from Buguma in Asari-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. She was born on September 15, 1946, in Lagos State to Chief Denton Victor West and Madam Stella Denton West. From 1953 until 1960 she attended Our Lady of Apostles, Yaba, Lagos, where she obtained her FSLC in 1960. and upon her retirement she noted that she herself had been a victim of judicial corruption.
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Sotonye Denton-West was born in 1946 in Rivers State.
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