John Muria

Sir Gilbert John Baptist Muria
Birth date	1953
Occupation	Judge
Honorific prefix	Sir
Office	Chief Justice of Solomon Islands
Term start	1992
Term end	2003
Office 1	Judge of the High Court of Sierra Leone
Term start 1	2003
Term end 1	2006
Office 2	Justice of the Court of Appeal of Sierra Leone
Term start 2	2003
Term end 2	2006
Office 3	Justice of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone
Term start 3	2003
Term end 3	2006
Office 4	Justice of the Supreme Court of Belize
Term start 4	2007
Term end 4	2010
Office 5	Chief Justice of the High Court of Kiribati
Term start 5	2011
Term end 5	2020
Office 6	Judge of the High Court of Tuvalu
Term start 6	2021

Sir Gilbert John Baptist Muria is a Solomon Islands judge and was the first indigenous Solomon Islander to be Chief Justice of Solomon Islands.

Muria was born in 1953.^[1] He was Chief Justice of Solomon islands from 1992 to 2003.^[1] He then sat as a judge on the courts of Sierra Leone from 2003 to 2006, sitting on each of the High Court of Sierra Leone, the Court of Appeal of Sierra Leone, and the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone. In 2007, the Commonwealth Secretariat facilitated Muria becoming a justice of the Supreme Court of Belize, where he remained until 2010. Muria was Chief Justice of the High Court of Kiribati from 2011 to 2020.^[1]

Muria was appointed as the Chancellor of the Solomon Islands National University, which was officially launched on 18 April 2013.

In 2021, Muria was appointed as a judge of the High Court of Tuvalu.^[2]

References

^ "Judiciary Kiribati - Chief Justices of Kiribati". 9 September 2024. Archived 9 September 2024 at the Wayback Machine.
^ "Government Appoints First High Court Judge". Tuvalu Paradise - Issue No. 01/2021. 11 January 2021. Archived from the original on 20 April 2021. Retrieved 31 January 2021.