Jackton Boma Ojwang

Justice Ojwang' retired from the Supreme Court in February 2020 when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 70. In May of the same year, President Uhuru Kenyatta appointed him to chair the Board of Directors of the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA). His appointment was viewed as a reward for his pro-government decisions while on the Supreme Court, particularly his dissenting vote to affirm President Kenyatta's win in the 2017 Presidential election which was nullified by the majority.

The Tribunal held its proceedings in private, and did not involve the media. After receiving and considering all evidence presented, which included a visit to the Judge's home to investigate whether he benefited from a private road constructed using public funds in exchange for a favorable decision, the Tribunal returned a verdict in August 2019 clearing him of all the allegations of misconduct.

At the conclusion of the 2017 presidential election petition, Justice Ojwang's rendered a dissenting opinion alongside Lady Justice Njoki Ndung'u, saying there was not enough evidence to meet the threshold to annul the Kenyan presidential election held on August 8, 2017.

When Dr. Willy Mutunga retired from the Office of Chief Justice in June 2016, Justice (Prof) J. B. Ojwang was one of ten people who applied to replace him. He was initially left out of the shortlist and interview schedule prepared by the Judicial Service Commission, but was later invited to interview for the job following a constitutional court case in which the Judicial Service Commission was compelled to interview all applicants who had met the minimum statutory requirements for the job. He was interviewed but was overlooked for the job, with Court of Appeal Judge David Maraga receiving the nomination by the Commission.

In September 2015, Ojwang received a Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Nairobi, having successfully defended his thesis, titled The Unity of the Constitution and the Common Law. He became the first sitting Kenyan judge to receive a Doctor of Laws degree.

He was one of the six judges who dismissed the presidential election petition of March 30, 2013.

In June 2012, Ojwang was among 5 Justices nominated to the Supreme Court of Kenya by the Judicial Service Commission, which had interviewed 25 applicants.

Justice Ojwang worked as a lecturer and served as the Dean of the School of Law at the University of Nairobi from 2000 to 2003. He was also a visiting associate professor of law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School in Brigham Young University.

Ojwang was admitted as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya in September 1983. He joined the Judiciary of Kenya in 2003, serving as a high court judge in Nairobi and Mombasa until 2011.

He earned a PhD degree in comparative constitutional law at Downing College in 1981.

Justice Ojwang was born in 1950 in Migori County. He went to Homa Bay High School, sitting for his O-Levels in 1968. He then went to the Thika High School where he sat for his A-Level in 1970. He earned his undergraduate degree in Law at the University of Nairobi in 1974 and a master's degree at the same university in 1976.