First Female Chief Justice of Nigeria Hits the Ground Running

[Vanguard]Being ahead of the glass ceiling is not unfamiliar territory for new Nigerian Chief Justice. Mariam Aloma Mukhtar before her swearing in as the head of the Nigerian judiciary, had been the first woman from Northern Nigeria to become a lawyer. As she grew in her career, Mukhtar, became the first woman to be appointed a justice of the Court of Appeal and, later, the first female justice of the Court of Appeal to make it to the Supreme Court.