4th Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa
In office 23 September 2015 – 1 September 2022
Appointed by
Jacob Zuma
President
Lex Mpati
Preceded by
Kenneth Mthiyane
Succeeded by
Jeremiah Shongwe
Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal
In office June 2006 – 31 August 2022
Appointed by
Thabo Mbeki
Judge of the High Court
In office 1 May 2000 – June 2006
Appointed by
Thabo Mbeki
Division
Transkei
Chancellor of the University of Mpumalanga
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 July 2021
Vice-Chancellor
Thoko Mayekiso
Preceded by
Cyril Ramaphosa
Personal details
Born
Mandisa Muriel Lindelwa Maya
(1964-03-20) 20 March 1964 (age 60) St Cuthbert's, Tsolo Cape Province, South Africa
Spouse
Dabulamnazi Mlokoti
Children
3, including Wela Mlokoti
Alma mater
University of Transkei (BProc) University of Natal (LLB) Duke University (LLM)
Mandisa Muriel Lindelwa Maya (born 20 March 1964) is the Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa. She was formerly the President of the Supreme Court of Appeal from 2017 to 2022. She joined the bench in May 2000 as a judge of the Transkei Division of the High Court of South Africa and was elevated to the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2006.
Born in the Eastern Cape, Maya began her legal career in the Transkei, working as a prosecutor and state law adviser until she was admitted as an advocate in 1994. President Thabo Mbeki appointed her to the Mthatha High Court in May 2000 and to the Supreme Court of Appeal in June 2006. In the appellate court, she was elevated to the deputy presidency in September 2015 and the presidency in May 2017, succeeding Lex Mpati in both positions. She was the first black woman to serve in the Supreme Court of Appeal, as well as the court's first woman deputy president and first woman president.
Maya was nominated unsuccessfully for elevation to the Constitutional Court in 2009 and 2012, and President Cyril Ramaphosa controversially declined to confirm her nomination as Chief Justice of South Africa in March 2022. In September 2022, however, Ramaphosa appointed her as the first woman Deputy Chief Justice, in which capacity she deputises Raymond Zondo. She was the president of the South African chapter of the International Association of Women Judges from 2018 to 2023, and she was appointed as the Chancellor of the University of Mpumalanga on 1 July 2021.
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