Lebrecht James Nii Tettey Chinery-Hesse, GM (19 October 1930 – 30 August 2018) was a Ghanaian lawyer and civil servant.
He served as a specialist in legislative drafting in the service of Uganda, Ghana, Zambia and Sierra Leone.
[4] Chinery-Hesse was a member of the Committee of Experts under the chairmanship of Nana S. K. B Asante that did work towards the 1992 Constitution of Ghana between June 1991 and July 1991.
[7] He married Mary Chinery-Hesse (née Blay), a Ghanaian diplomat and international civil servant and the first woman chancellor of the University of Ghana.
[citation needed] She is the daughter of Robert Samuel Blay (1901–1979), a barrister, jurist and a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana during the First Republic.
A separate memorial service was held at All Saints Cathedral in Nakasero, Uganda on 14 September 2018 in remembrance of him.