Judge Frederick Werema is Tanzania's current Attorney General

Attorney General

In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general, or attorney-general, is the main legal advisor to the government, and in some jurisdictions he or she may also have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions.The term is used to refer to any person...

, appointed October 20, 2009. Before his appointment Werema was High Court of Tanzania Judge in Commercial Division. Werema took over from Johnson Mwanyika

Johnson Mwanyika

Johnson Paulo Mathias Mwanyika is a former Attorney General of Tanzania, having previously held the offices of Deputy Attorney General and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs...

 who retired.

Judge Werema was born on October 10, 1954 and acquired his University Law degrees from the University of Dar es Salaam

University of Dar es Salaam

The University of Dar es Salaam is a university in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam. The university was born out of a decision taken in 1970 to split the then University of East Africa into three independent universities; Makerere University , University of Nairobi and University of Dar es...

, American University Graduate School in USA, Italy on Contracts, the United Kingdom and Bolivia where he learned how to privatize electricity companies.

He had previously worked in the Attorney General's Office from 1984 to 2007.
In 2005 he was appointed an alternate member of SADC Tribunal before that in 1999, as Director of Constitutional Affairs and Human Rights.

He was sworn in on October 20, 2009 at the State House.