PETALING JAYA: Justice Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh has been appointed as Malaysia’s new Chief Justice, taking over the post from Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat who retired earlier this month.
Wan Ahmad Farid, a Court of Appeal judge, has also been elevated to the Federal Court to allow him to helm the highest office in the judiciary.
He was appointed as a judicial commissioner in December 2015 before being elevated to the High Court in 2019 and then the Court of Appeal in November 2024.
Wan Ahmad Farid, a former political secretary to the late Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, used to be an Umno member but quit politics in 2013. He had also served as a deputy home minister for just over a year from 2008 to 2009.
He had contested in the Kuala Terengganu parliamentary by-election in 2009 but lost to PAS’s Abdul Wahid Endut by 2,631 votes. - FMT
