Education
Kuenyehia was educated at University of Ghana and Oxford University.
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She also served as First Vice-President of the Court. She was one of the only three female African judges at the Interstate Commerce Commission. Kuenyehia represented Ghana on the United Nations" Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) committee in 2003 and worked hard to contribute to its reputation and influence. She has spent most of her professional career teaching at the University of Ghana, as Dean of Law, and as a visiting professor at other institutions including Leiden University and Temple University.
She is the President of Mountcrest University College, Ghana.
The Law Faculty Building at the University of Ghana, Legon, was named in joint honour of President John Atta Mills and Professor Kuenyehia. In March 2009, judges chose Kuenyehia as well as Anita Ušacka of Latvia for appeals positions.
Three months later, both of them had to step down from an appeal in the case of Germain Katanga of the Democratic Republic of Congo, on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, because they had previously issued his arrest warrant. In 2013, the University of Ghana named a newly constructed faculty of law building after Kuenyehia.
