Dulcie Ethel Adunola Oguntoye renounced her British citizenship in 1961 in order to serve in the Nigerian judiciary. The English-born Nigerian jurist was the country's second female judge and the first female judge of Lagos State. Justice Oguntoye was also the first woman judge to be awarded a Nigerian national honour in 1979. On November 16, 1946, after five months of courtship, she got married to David Ojo Abiodun Oguntoye whom she had met during World War II while they were both serving in the Royal Air Force. In 1949, they established a law firm, Oguntoye & Oguntoye. After over a decade of active practice, she joined the Western Region Magistracy in the late 1950s. In 1960, Mallam Shehu Shagari, as Minister for Internal Affairs, handed Oguntoye full Nigerian citizenship (she later sacrificed her British passport in 1961), and in 1967, she became Chief Magistrate in Lagos. She served meritoriously in Ikeja and Igbosere. In February 1976, Oguntoye was appointed to the Lagos State High Court, the first woman on the Lagos State bench and the second female judge in Nigeria after Modupe Omo-Eboh who was appointed a judge in 1975 in the old Mid-Western region. In 1979, my lord Justice Oguntoye was named an Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) by Head of State Olusegun Obasanjo after she had been transferred to the newly created Oyo State the year before (1978). She retired from the bench in 1988. Surrounded by her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, Honourable Justice Dulcie Ethel Adunola Oguntoye, who was also honoured with the title of the Iyalode of Imesi-Ile, Osun State, passed away in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Monday, November 12, 2018. She was 95. #historyville