Jerome Korkoya brings to LSL more than 30 years of legal practice and public service. He is the immediate past Chairman of the National Elections Commission of Liberia (NEC), which organizes and supervises all elections for the President and the National Legislature of Liberia. During his tenure at the NEC, Korkoya supervised and directed the conduct of the 2017 presidential and legislative elections, which marked the first such elections conducted exclusively by Liberian election technicians. The elections marked the peaceful transfer of power from one Liberian president to another for the first time since 1944. He holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas School of Law in Lawrence, Kansas, as well as a Masters of Law Degree from Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans, Louisiana. Korkoya also holds a Bachelor of Law Degree from the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia 1994, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of Liberia. Korkoya is an experienced commercial litigator who has represented various high profile corporate clients at all levels of the Liberian court system, including the Supreme Court.