Barbara Frances Ackah-Yensu (born 2 February 1955) is a Ghanaian judge and an active Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana.
[1] Following her undergraduate studies, Ackah-Yensu joined the Ghana Reassurance Organisation in Accra as a marketing officer for her National Service from 1977 to 1979.
Following her call to the bar in 1981, she entered private practice, working with companies such as Lynes Quarshie-Idun & Co., National Investment Bank (NIB), Non-Performing Assets Recovery Trust, Ghanaian Australian Goldfields Ltd, Ashanti Goldfields Ltd, and World Bank/Non-Performing Assets Recovery Trust in Uganda.
[1][3] On 4 July 2022, the president, on the advice of the Judicial Council and in consultation with the Council of State, nominated Ackah-Yensu, along with three other judges (George Kingsley Koomson, Samuel Kwame Adibu Asiedu, and Ernest Yao Gaewu) to the Supreme Court.
They also added that "they pledged to interpret the law without fear or favour and eschew partisanship in their rulings.