{"id":276585,"date":"2019-05-20T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEBnb__cSQwEN91-4_uXfdZwqFQgEKg0IACoGCAow3PcFMNFXMMmzAg?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:28:18","slug":"christian-science-monitor-profiled-meaza-ashenafi-as-ethiopias-first-woman-supreme-court-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276585","title":{"rendered":"Christian Science Monitor profiled Meaza Ashenafi as Ethiopia\u2019s first woman Supreme Court chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 the Christian Science Monitor profiled Meaza Ashenafi after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appointed her as the first woman to lead Ethiopia\u2019s Supreme Court, part of a wider wave of women named to top posts.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-354823\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Christian Science Monitor profiled Meaza Ashenafi as Ethiopia\u2019s first woman Supreme Court chief\" \/>\n<p>Meaza was already known as a women\u2019s rights lawyer and activist before she took the bench leadership role. The appointment was sold internationally as proof of reform, while domestic observers asked whether a progressive chief justice could change a court system still shaped by politics and weak enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Gender parity at the top does not by itself deliver independent courts. It does change who holds the gavel and how rights cases are publicly framed.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as rights and governance archive, the Monitor profile dates Meaza\u2019s elevation and the early branding of Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government as a champion of women in high office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Africa\/2019\/0520\/From-women-s-rights-activist-to-Supreme-Court-chief-meet-Meaza-Ashenafi\">Christian Science Monitor<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From women\u2019s rights activist to Supreme Court chief: meet Meaza Ashenafi&nbsp;&nbsp;The Christian Science MonitorPrime Minister Abiy Ahmed appointed Ms. Ashenafi the Supreme Court&#8217;s first female chief, one of many women named to Ethiopia&#8217;s top position&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":354823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=1023%2C583&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19X3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754833,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276585\/revisions\/754833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}