Global InformationRaylene Keightley information
The Honourable Raylene Keightley | |
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| Judge of the High Court | |
Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 1 January 2016 | |
| Appointed by | Jacob Zuma |
| Division | Gauteng |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Raylene May Keightley 19 November 1961 Kokstad, Cape Province South Africa |
| Spouse | Alan Dodson |
| Alma mater | University of Natal (BA, LLB) University of Cambridge (LLM) |
Raylene May Keightley (born 19 November 1961) is a South African judge of the High Court of South Africa. She was appointed to the Gauteng Division in January 2016 after a career as a legal academic and practising lawyer. She was admitted as an attorney in 1986 and as an advocate in 2006.
Born in the Eastern Cape, Keightley began her career at the University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand, where she taught law between 1988 and 1999. Thereafter she spent seven years at the Asset Forfeiture Unit of the National Prosecuting Authority. From 2006 to 2015, she practised law at the Johannesburg Bar, with a stint as the director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies between 2008 and 2011. She was appointed to the bench by President Jacob Zuma.