Njoki Susanna Ndung'u

Njoki Susanna Ndung'u
Associate justice of the Supreme Court of Kenya
Incumbent
Assumed office June 2012
Personal details
Born	(1966-01-01) 1 January 1966 (age 58)

Njoki Susanna Ndung'u is a Kenyan lawyer and a 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.^[1] She was born in 1966.

Early career

Njoki, an alumna of

, (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

She was the architect and mover of the ‘Sexual Offenses Bill, 2006’ which was eventually passed as the Sexual Offences Act 2006.^[2]

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.^[3]

Supreme Court career

When the first round of the presidential election took place on March 4, 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

• Supreme Court of Kenya
• Africa is a Woman's Name
  - a documentary about three women, including Ndung'u

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