Dulcie Ethel Adunola Oguntoye
Dulcie Ethel Adunola Oguntoye is an English-born Nigerian jurist who was the country's second female judge.
Early and personal life
Dulcie Ethel King was born on 29 May 1923 at Gravesend, Kent in England.[1] She served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II and then enrolled to study law at the Middle Temple Inns of Court.[1] She married Chief David Ojo Abiodun Oguntoye, the first Ijesha lawyer, whom she had met during the War, on 16 November 1946,[2] and they moved to Ibadan. He gave her the name "Adunola". He married another five wives after her. They established a law firm, Oguntoye & Oguntoye in 1949. Her husband died in June 1997.[2]
Career
In 1960, Oguntoye renounced her British citizenship in order to serve in the Nigerian judiciary.[1] In 1961, she joined the Western Region Magistracy.[1] In 1967, she became Chief Magistrate in Lagos.[1]
In February 1976, Oguntoye was appointed to the Lagos State High Court, the first woman on the Lagos State bench and the second female judge in Nigeria after Modupe Omo-Eboh.[1] She was transferred to the newly created Oyo State in 1978, and retired from the bench in 1988.[1] In 1978, she was named an Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic by Head of State Olusegun Obasanjo.[1] She was honoured as the Iyalode of the town of Imesi-Ile.[2]
Oguntoye's autobiography, Your Estranged Faces was published in 2013.[1] In 2016, the Nigerian Legal Awards honoured her for her contribution to the country's legal profession.[3]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "90 Years of Love, Justice and a Large Heart". Logbaby. 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
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