| Intro | South African judge |
| A.K.A. | S. Sandile Ngcobo |
| Is | Judge |
| From | South Africa |
| Type | Law |
| Gender | male |
| Birth |
1 March 1953, Durban |
| Age | 67 years |
Sandile Ngcobo (born 1 March 1953) is former justice in the Constitutional Court of South Africa. 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, 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.