No Jin-seol

No Jin-seol (盧鎭卨¹, 1900 – 1967) was a U.S. Army Military Government in Korea official, a Supreme Court justice, and a jurist of South Korea. He served as the second Chairman of the Board of Audit and Inspection of South Korea.² During the U.S. military government period, he served as Director of the Court Administration Office. His family seat was Gwangju.

In March 1948, he was appointed by Major General William F. Dean, commander of the U.S. Army Military Government in Korea, as a member of the Central Election Commission to administer the 5·10 General Election. He took part in the establishment of the government and, after its founding, became a Supreme Court justice. He succeeded Wi-dang Jeong In-bo as Chairman of the Board of Audit and Inspection. While serving as Chairman, No Jin-seol handed down the first death sentence by the Special Committee for the Investigation of Pro-Japanese Collaborators to a former vicious Japanese police officer.²

On June 1, 1948, he was appointed as an expert member of the Constitutional Drafting Committee.³

Footnotes

Footnotes

1. “秘話 第一共和國 <8> 第二話 憲法制定에서 組閣까지”. Dong-a Ilbo. April 19, 1973. ↩

2. Ko Un-gi (August 17, 2006). “<푸른광장> 초대 감찰위원장 정인보”. .