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Chief Justice of Sudan
Head of the Judiciary of Sudan
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The chief justice of Sudan is the head of the Judiciary of Sudan. Under Article 29.(3) of the August 2019 Draft Constitutional Declaration, the chief justice is also the president of the Supreme Court of Sudan and is "responsible for administering the judicial authority before the Supreme Judicial Council."[1][2]
List of chief justices
Chief Justices
- 1903–1917 Wasey Sterry[3] (until 1915 Chief Judge)
- 1917–1925 Robert Hay Dun[4]
- 1925–1930 Sir Bernard Humphrey Bell[5]
- 1930–1936 Howell Owen
- 1936–1942 Thomas Percival Creed
- 1942–1944 Sir Hubert Flaxman
- 1944–1946 Cecil Harry Andrew Bennett
- 1946–1948 Sir Charles Cecil George Cumings
- 1947–1950 Thomas Arthur Maclagan[6]
- 1950–1955 William O'Brien Lindsay[7]
- 1956–1964 Muhammad Ahmad Abu Rannat
- 1965–1967 Babiker Awadalla
| # | Image | Name (birth–death) |
Took office | Left office |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abdel-Mageed Imam[8] | (pre-1986)[8] | |||
| RCCNS/Omar al-Bashir presidency | ||||
| 99 | Haider Ahmed Dafalla | 2014[9] | 2019 | |
| Sovereignty Council of Sudan | ||||
| 100 | Nemat Abdullah Khair | 10 October 2019[10] | 18 May 2021[11] | |
| 101 | Abdel-Aziz Fathal-Rahman Abdeen Mohamed | 26 November 2021[12] | ||