Justice Fatmatta Bintu Alhadi has been a Justice of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone since May 2025. From 2020 to 2025 she served as a Justice of the Court of Appeal and, prior to that, she served as a Judge of the High Court from 2015 to 2020. From 2018 to the present she has also lectured at the Sierra Leone Law School on various subjects.
From 2009 to 2013 and 2014 to 2015 she worked as counsel for Guaranty Bank Limited and, in 2014, served as Head of Legal Affairs for the Financial Intelligence Unit (now the Financial Intelligence Agency) of Sierra Leone. From 2007 to 2009 she worked as a prosecutor in the Law Officers Department of the Ministry of Justice. From 2004 to 2006 she worked as a barrister in private practice. This included an appointment by the Special Court for Sierra Leone as an independent prosecutor of criminal contempt offences, and later as an investigator.
Justice Alhadi was educated in Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom. She earned a BA degree from the University of Surrey, then studied law at Middlesex University,
at the Bar Council of England and Wales, and at the Sierra Leone Law School. She received her LLM (Master of Laws) degree in 2013 from the University of Liverpool. Justice Alhadi is an overseas Bencher of the Middle Temple in London, England.