The chief justice of Belize is the head of the Supreme Court of Belize. Under Chapter 7 of the

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, the chief justice is appointed by the

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on the advice of the

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. Since the retirement of Kenneth Benjamin in March 2020, Michelle Arana was the acting chief justice of Belize. Louise Blenman was appointed to fill the vacancy in September 2022.

List of chief justices

The full list as published by the attorney general of Belize: # Robert Temple Esq., 1843–1861

British Honduras (1862-1973)

# Richard J. Connor, 1862 # William Alexander Parker, 1875–1881 #Sir Henry Rawlins Pipon Schooles, 1881 (later Administrator of Grenada, 1887 and Attorney General of Jamaica, 1896) # William Anthony Musgrave Sheriff, 1883–1886 #Sir William Meigh Goodman, 1886–1889 #Sir William John Anderson, 1890–1900 (afterwards

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, 1900) #Sir Walter Llewellyn Lewis, 1900–1906 # Frederic Mackenzie Maxwell, 1906–1911 (afterwards Chief Justice of the Leeward Islands, 1912) # Sir Walter Sidney Shaw, 1912–1914 # Sir Robert Blair Roden, 1915–1921 # Herbert Kortright McDonnell Sisnett, 1922–1931 # Charles Wilton Wood Greenidge, 1932–1936 #Sir Arthur Kirwan Agar, 1936–1940 #Sir Carleton George Langley, 1940–1947 # Frederick Malcolm Boland, 1948–1949 #Sir Alfred Victor Crane, 1950–1954 # Erskine Rueul La Tourette Ward, 1955–1957 # Sir Clifford De Lisle Inniss, 1957–1972

Belize (1973–)

# Arthur Richard Franklin Dickson, 1973–1974 #Sir Denis Eustace Gilbert Malone, 1974–1979 # Albert L. Staine, CBE, 1979–1982 # George C. R. Moe, QC, 1982–1985 #* George N. Brown, acting 1985–1986 # Taufik Cotran, CBE, 1986–1990 #Sir George N. Brown, 1990–1998 # George Singh, 1998 # Manuel Sosa, CBE, SC, 1998–1999 #* John Troadio Gonzalez, acting 1999–2000 #Dr. Abdulai Osman Conteh, 2000–2010 #* Samuel Awich, acting 2010–2011 # Kenneth Benjamin, 2011-2020 #* Michelle Arana, acting 2020-2022 # Louise Blenman, 2022-Present

References

{{British dependencies chief justices, state=collapsed Belize and the Commonwealth of Nations 1843 establishments in the British Empire