Carole Helene Lewis is a South African retired judge and legal academic.
12 Facts About Carole Lewis
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Carole Lewis served in the Supreme Court of Appeal from 2003 until her retirement in 2019.
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Carole Lewis matriculated at the Hyde Park High School in Hyde Park, Johannesburg.
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Carole Lewis was appointed as an associate professor in 1987, promoted to full professor in 1988, and served as dean of the Faculty of Law between 1993 and 1998.
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Carole Lewis served as a legal advisor to the Democratic Party during the negotiations to end apartheid and, after the 1994 general election, the post-apartheid Minister of Water Affairs, Kader Asmal, appointed her as an advisor on water law reform.
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Carole Lewis was an acting judge in the High Court of South Africa in 1998 and 1999.
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Carole Lewis joined the bench permanently on 1 November 1999 as a judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the High Court.
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Carole Lewis served there for three years, during which time she was an acting judge in the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2002.
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Carole Lewis was the second woman to be appointed to the appellate court, after Leonora van den Heever.
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Notable judgments written by Carole Lewis included Ikea Trading und Design v BOE Bank and the judgment that was overturned by the Constitutional Court in S v Thebus.
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Carole Lewis is married to Stephen Lewis and has two children.
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Carole Lewis joined the Black Sash as a teenager in 1970 and joined Lawyers for Human Rights shortly after it was formed in 1979.