George Kingsley Acquah MSG JSC (4 March 1942 – 25 March 2007) was the twenty-third Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana[1](the eleventh since independence).

[2] He was appointed as Chief Justice on 4 July 2003[3] and was the incumbent until his death.

Justice Acquah was born on 4 March 1942 at Sekondi in the Western Region of the then-British Gold Coast[4][5] to Isaac Yankson and Beatrice Acquah but was brought up by his stepfather, Isaac Charles Acquah.

[4] Justice George Acquah was in private legal practice at Cape Coast from 1972 until 19 September 1989 when he became a High Court Judge, working at Ho in the Volta Region.

[7] Justice Acquah died of cancer on 25 March 2007, aged 65, in Accra.