Jawwad S. Khawaja

Jawwad S. Khawaja جواد ایس خواجہ
23rd Chief Justice of Pakistan
In office 17 August 2015 – 9 September 2015
Nominated by	Nawaz Sharif
Appointed by	Mamnoon Hussain
Preceded by	Nasir-ul-Mulk
Succeeded by	Anwar Zaheer Jamali
Senior Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
In office 6 July 2014 – 16 August 2015
Preceded by	Nasir-ul-Mulk
Succeeded by	Anwar Zaheer Jamali
Personal details
Born	Jawwad Sajjad Khawaja 10 September 1950 Wazirabad, Punjab, Pakistan
Citizenship	Pakistan
Nationality	Pakistani
Residence	Islamabad, Pakistan
Alma mater	Lawrence College Ghora Gali Aitchison College Forman Christian College University Punjab University Law College (LLB) University of California, Berkeley, United States (LLM)
Religion	Islam

Jawwad S. Khawaja (Urdu: جواد ایس خواجہ‎) (born 10 September 1950) is a Pakistani jurist, and former professor of law at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, who served as the 23rd Chief Justice of Pakistan. He was nominated for the position by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 17 August 2015, and approved to take office by President Mamnoon Hussain on the same day.

Khawaja was born in Wazirabad in 1950 and was educated at the Mission School in Wazirabad, Lawrence College Ghora Gali near Murree, Aitchison College in Lahore and Forman Christian College University in Lahore. He did his LL.B. at the Punjab University Law College and his LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley.

He started his legal practice as an advocate of the Lahore High Court in 1975 and was a partner at Cornelius, Lane and Mufti, one of the largest law firms in Pakistan. In 1999, he became a judge of the Lahore High Court but resigned in 2007 in response to the maltreatment of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on 9 March. He joined the Law and Policy Department of the Lahore University of Management Sciences in August 2007 and served as the head of the department from October 2007 to May 2009 when he joined the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

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