| Julie Manning | |
| Office: | High Court judge |
| Term Start: | 1973 |
| Country: | nited Republic of Tanzania (Former Tanganyika) |
| Termstart: | 1973 |
| Termend: | 1975 |
| Occupation: | lawyer, judge and politician |
| Birth Date: | 24 January 1939 |
| Nationality: | Tanzanian |
| Office1: | Minister of Justice |
| Termstart1: | 1975 |
| Termend1: | 1983 |
Julie Catherine Manning (born 24 January 1939)[1] was a Tanzanian lawyer, judge and politician. The first Tanzanian woman to study law, she was a High Court judge before serving as Minister of Justice from 1975 to 1983.[2]
Manning was born in Morogoro. In 1963, she became the first woman to study law at the University of East Africa.
She later worked as a law draughtswoman in the Attorney General's Chamber.[3] In 1973 she was appointed judge of the High Court of Tanzania, making her the first African woman High Court judge in east or central Africa.[4] She was named Minister of Justice in 1975, making her one of the first two women to serve in a Tanzanian cabinet.[5]
After Joseph Warioba succeeded Manning as Justice Minister in 1983, she worked as a counsel at the Tanzanian embassy in Ottawa, Canada.