Justice Komba Kamanda is the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, a position he has held since December 2024. In 2020 he was appointed a Judge of the Court of Appeal, and subsequently empanelled to sit on the Supreme Court. From 2016 to 2020 he was a Judge of the High Court of Sierra Leone. From 2005 to 2015 he served as a Magistrate, and dealt with both civil and criminal cases in judicial districts throughout Sierra Leone. Since 2015 he has also served as a facilitator at the Judicial Training Institute, training Magistrates and newly-appointed judges in various areas of the law. During this period he was appointed as a member of the Bail and Sentencing Committee, to draft and promulgate regulations and law regarding bail and sentencing in Sierra Leone.
He has served for more than 20 years as a distinguished jurist in civil and criminal cases in Sierra Leone, and is one of the few judges who has sat in all layers of court in Sierra Leone and in all the divisions of the High Court.
In 2025, Justice Kamanda was appointed Chairman of the ECOWAS Judicial Council, which regulates the functioning of the ECOWAS Court.
Justice Kamanda attended Fourah Bay College in Freetown, where he earned his BA and LLB degrees. In 2004 he received a BL degree from the Sierra Leone Law School, and later an LLM (Master of Laws) degree from the University of Salford in Manchester, UK. He was called to the Bar in 2004.