Tribute To Kenya's Famous Legendary Chief Justice Martha Koome

Kenyan peasant farmers welcomed Chief Justice Martha Koome into the world in 1960. She grew up with seventeen other children from two mothers in a polygamous household. She has three children from her marriage to Koome Kiragu.



Koome graduated with a law degree from Kenya's University of Nairobi. After finishing the professional law degree in 1987, Koome was admitted to the Kenya Bar. Koome graduated from the University of London with an LL.M. in Public International Law in 2010.

Koome began her professional career as a legal associate at the Nairobi-based legal firm Mathenge and Muchemi Advocates. 

In 1995, the Heads of State of the African Union named Koome as a Commissioner to the African Committee on the Rights and Welfare of Children. She also led talks on the Children's Act revision and chaired the National Council on the Administration of Justice's special task force on children's issues.

In 2003,the late President Mwai Kibaki appointed Koome as a judge of the High Court, where she headed the family, environmental, and land division for eight years. During her active years as a High Court Judge, she also sat in satellite courts to clear a backlog of cases