Aaron Ringera

Aaron Gitonga Ringera, E.B.S. is a Kenyan lawyer who served as a Judge and as the former Director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC).He was born in Githongo, Meru on June 20th 1950.

Ringera has a Master's (LLM) and Bachelor's (LLB) degrees in law from the University of Nairobi. He also holds a Diploma in International and Comparative Law of Human Rights from Strasbourg. France and studied for a Diploma in Law and Practice at the Kenya School of Law. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Nairobi. He also doubled up as a lawyer in private practice together with Kiraitu Murungi and Gibson Kamau Kuria but when the latter two fell in trouble with the authorities during the "dark era" of Moi, he quit the firm he helped found and instead teamed up with George Oraro and Ambrose Rachier forming a formidable partnership that was a power house in its heyday.

He was a senior lecturer in the University of Nairobi and taught most of the leading lawyers and was Chairman of the Department of Public Law.

He was later appointed Judge of the High Court in 1994 marking the end of his career as a top lawyer and transitioning to the bench. In 1999, President Daniel arap Moi elevated him by appointing him to the position of Solicitor-General succeeding Benjamin Kubo who retired. .

He became the director of Kenya Anti-Corruption Authority (KACA) in March 1999, succeeding the first director John Harun Mwau. The High Court ruled on December 22, 2000 that KACA was unconstitutional. As a result, the head of Civil Service Richard Leakey asked Ringera to resign, which he did in January 2001. KACA was succeeded by the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission, which was established in 2003. Ringera was appointed as the first director of KACC in August 2004, despite opposition from the Liberal Democratic Party, which was part of the NARC coalition government. As a result of this appointment, he retired as a Judge in 2004. The director of KACC had the highest salary for a civil servant in Kenya, and enjoyed a better salary than the President.

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