Sandile Ngcobo

The Honourable Sandile Ngcobo
Chief Justice of South Africa
In office 12 October 2009 – 12 August 2011
Appointed by	President Jacob Zuma
Deputy	Dikgang Moseneke
Preceded by	Pius Langa
Succeeded by	Mogoeng Mogoeng
Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
In office 1999 – 12 August 2011
Appointed by	President Nelson Mandela
Personal details
Born	March 1, 1953 Durban, South Africa
Alma mater	University of Zululand, University of Natal, Harvard Law School
Profession	Lawyer

Sandile Ngcobo (born 1 March 1953) is former justice in the Constitutional Court of South Africa.^[1] He served as Chief Justice from 2009 to 2011.

Education

Justice Ngcobo received a Fulbright scholarship and he holds an LLM degree from Harvard Law School,^[1] where he is a visiting professor of law. He is also a visiting professor of law at Columbia Law School and an adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School.

Career

From 1986 to 1987, Ngcobo clerked for A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., a United States federal judge.

Ngcobo was made an honorary professor of law by the University of Cape Town.

He was appointed to the Constitutional Court in 1999 by Nelson Mandela. Prior to this he was a judge in the Cape High Court and the Labour Appeal Court.

On 6 August 2009, President Jacob Zuma nominated Ngcobo to succeed Pius Langa as Chief Justice of South Africa in October 2009.^[2]

References

1. "Justice Sandile Ngcobo". Constitutional Court of South Africa. Retrieved 2008-11-09.
2. "Zuma looks to Ngcobo as new chief justice". Mail & Guardian. 2009-08-06.