Jeanette Traverso
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28 May 1946
Jeanette Traverso | |
|---|---|
| Deputy Judge President of the Western Cape High Court | |
| In office 2001–2016 | |
| Preceded by | John Hlophe |
| Succeeded by | Patricia Goliath |
| Judge of the High Court of South Africa | |
| In office 1994–2000 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jeanette Helena Margaretha Coetzee 28 May 1946 Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Alma mater | University of Stellenbosch |
Jeanette Helena Margaretha Traverso (née Coetzee; born 28 May 1946) is a former judge of the High Court of South Africa. She is the second female appointed as a judge in South Africa and the first woman to be appointed as a Deputy Judge President of a Division of the High Court of South Africa.[1]
Traverso is the daughter of Barzillai (Blaar) Coetzee and Jacoba Rossouw (Twinkle) Coetzee (née Hanekom).[2] Her father was a businessman, politician, the minister of Public Works and Community Development in the late 1960s and the South African Ambassador to Rome.[3] Her mother, who was an actress, died shortly before Traverso's thirteenth birthday. Traverso matriculated in 1963 at Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool in Pretoria, whereafter she enrolled at the University of Stellenbosch, obtaining a BA degree in 1966 and a LLB in 1968.[4]