title: Bode Rhodes-Vivour
text: # Bode Rhodes-Vivour
  
  Bode Rhodes-Vivour CFR (born 22 March 1951) is a Nigerian jurist and former justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Bode Rhodes-vivour was born on 22 March 1951 in Lagos Island, a city in western Nigeria. to the family of Mr and Mrs Akinwunmi Rhodes-Vivour. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Law from the University of Lagos in 1974 and was called to the bar in 1975 after graduating from the Nigerian Law School. In 1983, he received a certificate in Legislative Drafting from the University of Nairobi under the Commonwealth Programme.
  
  ## Law career
  
  In 1975, he joined the Lagos State Judiciary as State Counsel and became Director of Public Prosecutions in 1989. He was appointed a High Court Judge in 1994 and in 2005 appointed to the Nigerian courts of appeal as Justice.
  
  In August 2010, he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria along with Justice Suleiman Galadima.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  He is married to Adedoyin Rhodes-Vivour.
  
  