James Villers Legge Phillips (1922–2012) was a Ghanaian civil servant and politician.
Following the 1966 coup d'état, he served as Director of Parkinson Howard (Ghana) for a brief period of time.
[9] During the Supreme Military Council regime, he served as the resident Manager,[10][11] and chairman for the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO).
Other founding members included Kwesi Chinbuah, Acquaah Harrison and David Anderson.
[15] Phillips, while he was Senior Labour Officer in charge of the Tarkwa district became involved as a part-time lecturer for extra-mural courses organised by the then Institute of Extra-Mural Studies (later Institute of Adult Education and now the School of Continuing and Distance Education) of the University College of the Gold Coast (now the University of Ghana.