Njoki Susanna Ndung'u

Njoki Susanna Ndung'u (born 20 September 1965) is a Kenyan lawyer and an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Kenya. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from University of Nairobi and a Master of Laws (LLM) in human rights and civil liberties from the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.

Njoki Susanna Ndung'u
Associate justice of the Supreme Court of Kenya
Assumed office
June 2012

Early career

Ndung'u, an alumnus of the Kenya High School, begun her career between 1989 and 1993 at the Office of the Attorney General as a state counsel. She later worked as a programme officer (Civic Education) with the Institute For Education in Democracy until 1995, when she moved and worked for one year at UNHCR Kenya Branch Office as a national protection officer. Between 2000 and 2002 she worked as a political analyst for the Organization of African Unity, (OAU).

National Assembly

She served as a National Rainbow Coalition (NARC)-nominated member of Parliament between 2003 and 2007 and served on the following Parliamentary committees:

  • Departmental Committee on Administration of Justice and Legal Affairs
  • Departmental Committee on Defense and Foreign Affairs
  • Select Committee on the Constitution of Kenya
  • Committee on Conflict and International Cooperation (PAP)

She also moved several private members bills, including:

  • Motion on Maternity Benefits
  • Amendments on Maternity and Paternity Rights in Employment Act 2007
  • Key human rights amendments to the Refugee Bill
  • ‘Sexual Offences Bill, 2006’

Sexual Offences Act 2006
Main article: Sexual Offences Act 2006

She was the architect and mover of the ‘Sexual Offenses Bill, 2006’ which was eventually passed as the Sexual Offences Act 2006

Supreme Court Judge interviews

In June 2012, she was among 5 justices nominated to the Supreme Court of Kenya by the Judicial Service Commission (Kenya) which had interviewed 25 applicants.[1]

Supreme Court career

When the first round of the presidential election took place on March 4, 2013. Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the president-elect of Kenya by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. Raila Odinga challenged this in the Supreme Court of Kenya. She was one of the six judges who dismissed the petition on March 30, 2013. At the conclusion of the 2017 presidential election petition, Lady Justice Njoki Ndung'u rendered a dissenting opinion alongside Justice Jacktone Boma Ojwang, citing no evidence to announce the elections as null and void.

See also

References
  1. "JSC nominates five for Kenya Supreme Court". Daily Nation. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
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