Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury, a judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, has been appointed as the 26th Chief Justice of the country.
The appointment was announced in a notification issued by the Law and Justice Division (Judicial Branch-4) of the Ministry of Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs, which was published on Wednesday (24 December).
According to the notification, under the authority of Article 95(1) of the Constitution, the President has appointed Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury as the Chief Justice. The appointment will take effect from the date he takes the oath.
Justice Zubayer obtained his LLB (Hons) and LLM from Dhaka University, and an LLM in International Law from the UK. He enrolled as an advocate of the District Court on 3 March 1985 and the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court on 17 May 1997.
He was elevated as an additional judge of the High Court Division on 27 August 2003 and appointed as a permanent judge of the same division on 27 August 2005. Justice Zubayer was elevated to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on 13 August 2024.
Throughout his career, he participated in international conferences, seminars, training programmes, and courses in Brussels, Belgium (1988); Prince Edward University, Canada (1990); Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2000, 2002, 2006); Quebec, Canada (2001); Singapore (2007); and Nepal (2012), according to information on the Supreme Court website.