Godfred Yeboah Dame was sworn in as Ghana’s youngest Attorney-General and Minister for Justice by H.E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic of Ghana on 5th March, 2021. Before assuming that office, he previously served as Deputy Attorney-General and Deputy Minister for Justice from 2017 - 2021. He is a member of the 8th Cabinet of the Government of the Fourth Republic. Godfred Yeboah Dame was born on June 5, 1979. He attended Adisadel College in Cape Coast, where he obtained his GCE Ordinary Level and Advanced Level Certificates between 1989 and 1996. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) in 2001 at the University of Ghana and further proceeded to the Ghana School of Law, where he obtained his qualifying certificate in law in 2003. He started his professional legal practice with the renowned firm of Messrs. Akufo-Addo, Prempeh & Co., a Ghanaian firm that specializes in various aspects of civil litigation. In 2006, in recognition of his contribution towards the defence of media and human rights, rule of law, and civil liberties generally in Ghana, Mr. Dame was awarded the Open Society Initiative Fellowship and selected to pursue the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies. He has had a series of stints as a member of the teaching faculty of the Ghana School of Law teaching Company Law and Practice at the Ghana School of Law and Advocacy & Legal Ethics spanning from 2011 - 2016. He also served on very sensitive committees of the Ghana Bar Association contributing to the formulation of policy in the training of lawyers, notable among them being the Pupilage and Juniors Committee, which is concerned with the upholding of standards among junior practitioners of the law. In 2014, he was appointed a member of the Ghana Bar Association’s legal team. Mr. Dame, between 2009 and 2017, served as the Vice-Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee of the Ghana Football Association. Earlier, from 2008 to 2009, he had been Chairman of the Greater-Accra Regional Football Association’s Disciplinary Committee. From 2011 to 2017, he was also a member of the Ghana Football Association Elections Committee. He serves as a member of the Legal Service Board; the Ministerial Advisory Board of the Ministry of Justice; the Board of the University of Ghana Medical Centre; the Board of the Public Procurement Authority; the National Security Council Council; the Judicial Council of Ghana; the Police Council; the General Legal Council; the Board of Legal Education and the Governing Board of the Public Private Partnership Committee of Ghana. Mr. Godfred Yeboah Dame is currently the 25th Attorney-General and Minister for Justice that Ghana has had. He is a Christian and married to Dr Joycelyn Akosua Assimeng Dame, a Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist with whom he has two children.