A first in Sudan: a female chief justice 

Following the appointment of a Christian woman at the top of the highest authority (https://bit.ly/327Q6Bf), the transitional Sovereign Council officially appointed yesterday the first female chief justice and attorney general of the country’s judiciary, the Sudanese News Agency (SUNA) reported. The 11-member council named judge of the Supreme Court, Neemat Abdallah Kheir, as chief justice and Taj al Sirr Ali as attorney general, SUNA said. Neemat’s appointment is part of the new ruling council’s ambition toward gender balance in senior positions, particularly since Sudanese women were on the front line of the uprising that toppled former President Omar al Bashir. Neemat, from the Jazira province city of Kamlin, has joined the judiciary in the eighties of the past century. She served in the Court of Appeal and in the Court of First Instance before she was promoted as a judge in the Supreme Court. She is reportedly one of the founders of the Sudanese Judges Club, not affiliated with any political party, and has participated in the sit-in in front of the Army’s General Command. (Al Akhbar, October 11, 2019)