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Leona Theron
Leona
Valerie Theron
is a
judge
on the
Constitutional Court of South Africa
and formerly of the
Supreme Court of Appeal
. She was first
appointed
to
the bench
in 1999
,
aged
33, becoming the first
black woman
judge on the
KwaZulu-Natal High Court
. She was appointed to the
Constitutional Court
on 1
July 2017
by
President
Jacob Zuma
to replace
recently
retired
Johann van der Westhuizen
.