Background
Ayotunde Phillips was born on July 26, 1949 in London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom by the late Justice James Oladipo Williams and Henrietta Aina Williams, a Lagos state born judge.
Ayotunde Phillips was born on July 26, 1949 in London, the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom by the late Justice James Oladipo Williams and Henrietta Aina Williams, a Lagos state born judge.
She obtained the West Africa School Certificate Examination at Queen"s College, Lagos before she proceeded to the University of Lagos where she obtained a bachelor"s degree in Law on June 1973. She completed the compulsory one year Youth Service at Enugu State Ministry of Justice and was Call to the bar in 1974. She started her career at Kehinde Sofola"s Chambers on November 1975, a year after she was Call to the Barometer
She left the chamber on September 1976 to joined the services of the Lagos State Development and Property Corporation as a legal Officer and rose to the position of legal adviser in 1990, the same year she got a transfer to the Ministry of Justice where she attained the rank of a High Court Judge in 1994.