Agyenim Boateng

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Agyenim Boateng
Born (1941-06-25) June 25, 1941 (age 82) [1] [2]
Atimatim, Kwabre District
Citizenship United States
Ghana
Education Miami University (BA)
Atlanta University (MA)
Howard University (JD)
Occupation Attorney
Political party New Patriotic Party of Ghana
Republican
SpouseDeloris
Children2

Agyenim N. Boateng [2] (born June 25, 1941) is a Ghanaian American lawyer and judge. He is a dual citizen of the United States and Ghana currently residing in Lexington, Kentucky in the United States. He is a former Administrative Law Judge for the Transportation Cabinet of Kentucky and a former Deputy Attorney General for the State of Kentucky. [3] [4] He is also active in the United States wing of the New Patriotic Party of Ghana.

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Education and training

He was educated at St Peter's Boys School, Kumasi, Ghana, followed by secondary education at Asanteman Secondary School. He was the first

student editor of The Porcupine. He passed the Cambridge School Certificate Exam (West African Examination Council) in 1959. In 1962, he passed the University of London General Certificate of Education Advanced Level examinations. He became a tutor at his alma mater (Asanteman Secondary School) for about three years before coming to the United States for further studies in 1964[1] Boateng attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he obtained a B.A. in government in 1966. He further achieved a (M.A) master's degree in political science from Atlanta University (now

Clark Atlanta University) in 1969. His master's thesis was entitled "Some Problems of National Integration in Ghana and Nigeria, 1957–66: A Case Study".Agyenim attended Howard University School of Law, Washington

D.C., where he obtained a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree in 1973. His doctoral thesis was entitled "Case Study of Forced Labor among Professionals in Europe and Africa: A Question of International Law on Human Rights". While at Howard University, he became the president of the Howard University Society of International Law (HUSIL) and led the moot court team as its captain for the annual international Jessup Moot Court Competition, organized by the American Society of International Law (ASIL). His team won the American regional championship.

Career

He worked as an assistant professor at Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama and also at Daniel Payne College in Birmingham, Alabama, where he served as an assistant professor of political and social science. From 1973 to 1974, he served as a fellow Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer with the Louisville Legal Aid Society.

Boateng then joined the Commonwealth of Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, served as a state attorney, and rose through the ranks to become division director of the Administrative Law Hearing Section, where he also served as its chief administrative law judge for 16 years. In 1998, he was appointed by the Attorney General for the Commonwealth as one of his assistants, later became his deputy, and served in that post until his retirement in January 2009. Since the fall of 2014, he has been serving as an adjunct professor of American government at Midway College, Midway, Kentucky.

Achievements

In 1973, he became a Reginald H. Smith Fellow, selected with 2000 other U.S. law school graduates to work as community lawyers across the U.S. for various legal aid societies.

He was a member of the U.S. Ghanaian diasporans who went to Ghana in 2005 to lobby the Ghana Parliament for the passage of Representative of the People's Amendment Act 699' (ROPAA), which gave the right of Ghana diasporas to vote in Ghana's general elections and referendums from their places of residence. On December 17, 2008, he and five other plaintiffs from the U.S. successfully sued and won at the Accra High Court of Human Rights against the Electoral Commission of Ghana for the right of the Ghanaian diaspora to vote in the 2020 general elections. He also drafted the necessary regulations (constitutional instruments) for implementation by the National Electoral Commission of Ghana (NEC), which failed to implement them. [5]

Agyenim Boateng is now in private practice, serving as a legal and policy analyst consultant at his office in Lexington, Kentucky.

Awards

Personal life

Dr. Agyenim Boateng is from Atimatim-Kumasi, Efigya-Kwabre District and belongs to the Ekuona clan of the Ashanti. He lived with wife Deloris (died May 27, 2015, in Montgomery, Alabama) and with their two children in Lexington, KY. He has two other grown sons.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. ↑ Hubbell, Martindale (December 1992). Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory: Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts (Volume 7 - 1992). Martindale-Hubbell. ISBN   9781561600212.
  2. 1 2 United States Public Records, 1970-2009 (Illinois, 2004)
  3. ↑ "Profile of Dr. Agyenim Boateng: Q&A | Diasporian News". Ghanaweb.com. 2005-05-31. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
  4. ↑ "Asantefuohene of Chicago calls on Ghanaians to help educate the children | Diasporian News". Ghanaweb.com. 2005-07-07. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
  5. ↑ Awura Ama Djaba (2008-11-04). "Live interview on ghanawaves.com with Dr. Agyenim-Boateng, Deputy Attorney-General, Kentucky, USA | Press Release | ModernGhana.com News". Modernghana.com. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
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