Chief Justice David Maraga who by birth name is David Kenani Maraga is a Kenyan lawyer and jurist. David Maraga is the Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya. Chief Justice Maraga is the 14th Chief Justice of Kenya.
Age
David Maraga was born on 12th January, 1951, Bonyamatuta, Nyamira County.
Wife
Maraga got married to one beautiful lady known as Yucabeth Nyaboke. The two have been blessed with three children. Even though she maintains a low profile, she has on numerous occasions appeared beside her husband, David Maraga.

Chief Justice David Maraga Education
David Maraga studied law at the University of Nairobi where he was awarded a Bachelor of Laws in 1977. David Maraga also holds a post-graduate diploma awarded in 1978 from the Kenya School of Law. In 2011, he got a Master of Laws from the University of Nairobi.

Judicial career
In October, 2003, Chief Justice David Maraga joined the bench as a High Court Judge having been appointed by retired President Kibaki. In 2012, Maraga was elevated to the Court of Appeal following an interview process by the Judicial Service Commission.
Since David Maraga was appointed to a judicial office before the 2010 Constitution of Kenya came into force, in 2012, he went through the mandatory vetting by the Judges & Magistrates Vetting Board. The Vetting Board unanimously declared CJ David Maraga fit to continue serving in office, though his vetting took a dramatic twist when he demanded a Bible and swore before the vetting panel that he’d never been bribed in his judicial career and that he would never take bribes in future.
Chief Justice vied for the position of President of the Court of Appeal, a year after joining the Court of Appeal, losing by a solitary vote to the Justice Kihara Kariuki who served as the President of the Court before leaving on his appointment as the Attorney General. In May, 2012, David Maraga was appointed by retired Chief Justice Willy Mutunga to chair the Kenya Judiciary Working Committee on Election Preparations (JWCEP) which was constituted in 2012 to ensure the Judiciary was prepared to deal in a timely manner, with any disputes that would arise from the 2013 General Election.
The Judiciary was in position to deal with all election petitions within the strict statutory timelines, as a result of the Committee’s work. The Committee was hence reconstituted as the standing Judiciary Committee on Elections (JCE) in 2015, still under the Chair of David Maraga. President Uhuru Kenyatta named Justice David Maraga as the Chair of a Tribunal which was constituted to investigate the conduct of High Court Judge Joseph Mutava after complaints emerged that the Judge had been compromised to deliver a judgment which cushioned Goldenberg suspect Kamlesh Pattni from prosecution over his involvement in the Goldenberg scandal In 2013.
The work of Tribunal was delayed when the Judge challenged its constitutionality in the High Court, though was finally able to complete its work in September, 2016. In September, 2016, the Tribunal submitted a report, recommending to the President that Justice Mutava be removed from office for improperly allocating himself the Kamlesh Pattni file when it did not fall under his docket and proceeding to write a judgment in the case even though the JSC was investigating Joseph’s conduct. David Maraga served as the Presiding Judge of the Court of Appeal in Kisumu, before being appointed as the Chief Justice. He worked as lawyer in private practice for over 25 years, prior to his appointment to the High Court of Kenya in 2003.
Chief Justice David Maraga Religion
He told the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) that he would not enter the courtroom on Sabbath day even during a presidential election dispute. Maraga said that It would be very difficult for him to sit on a Saturday to hear a case. He would rather talk with his colleagues in the court to accommodate him and exempt him from sitting if the hearing extends to a Saturday. Being a staunch Seventh-day Adventist, he would rather worship God in church on Saturday.