Joyce Adeline Bamford-Addo Previous Speaker of Parliament Joyce Adeline Bamford-Addo (born 26 March 1937) was the Speaker of the 5th Session of the Parliament of Ghana from 7 January 2009 to 6 January 2013. The Speaker’s position is 3rd in the Order of precedence in Ghana and comes after the President and Vice President of the Republic. She is also a retired Supreme Court Judge. She was the first female Speaker in such a position in the West African sub-region. After school, Joyce Bamford-Addo proceeded to the United Kingdom for further studies. She joined the Inner Temple for her law studies and was called to the English Bar in 1961. She was called to the Ghana Bar in 1962 and worked as a State Attorney from 1963, rising to become Chief State Attorney in 1973. She was appointed as the Director of Public Prosecutions in 1976, holding this position for 10 years. She was also appointed by Jerry Rawlings as a Supreme Court Judge in 1991. She retired from the Supreme Court in October 2004. Following the 2008 presidential and parliamentary elections, she was elected unopposed as the Speaker of the Fifth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana. 72
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