Ayotunde Phillips

Ayotunde Ayomide Phillips (born 26 July 1949) is a Nigerian jurist and former Chief Judge of Lagos State.

[3] She attended primary school in London before returning to Nigeria with her sibling, Oluwafunmilayo Olajumoke Atilade.

She completed the compulsory one year Youth Service at Enugu State Ministry of Justice and was Call to the bar in 1974.

She left the chamber in September 1976 to join 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.

[5] In July 2012, she was appointed as the Chief Judge by Babatunde Fashola and after her retirement in June 2014, she was succeeded by Justice Oluwafunmilayo Olajumoke Atilade, her younger sister.