Kobina Arku Korsah

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1st Chief Justice of Ghana
In office March 6, 1957 – December 1963
Preceded by	New Position
Succeeded by	J. Sarkodee-Addo
13th Chief Justice of the Gold Coast
In office 1956 – March 6, 1957
Preceded by	Sir Mark Wilson
Succeeded by	None
Born	1894 Ghana
Died	1967 Ghana

Sir Kobina Arku Korsah(1894-1967) was the first black Chief Justice of Ghana (then the Gold Coast) in 1956.^[1]

In 1942, Nana Sir Ofori Atta and Sir Arku Korsah were the first two Ghanaians to be appointed to the Legislative Council by the then Governor of the Gold Coast, Sir Alan Burns.^[2][3] He was one of the twenty founding members of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1959.^[4] After the Kulungugu attack on President Kwame Nkrumah in August 1962, Sir Arku Korsah presided over the trial of five defendants. At the end of that trial, three of the accused were found not guilty and this displeased the Nkrumah government. Nkrumah sacked Sir Korsah as Chief Justice in December 1963 unconstitutionally.^[1]

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• Supreme Court of Ghana

Preceded by Sir Mark Wilson	Chief Justice of the Gold Coast 1956–1957	Succeeded by —
Preceded by —	Chief Justice of Ghana 1957–1963	Succeeded by J. Sarkodee-Addo