Daniel Vuminkosi Dlodlo (born 4 April 1952) is a South African retired judge who served in the Supreme Court of Appeal from 2019 to 2022.
[1] In July 2004, President Thabo Mbeki announced that, on the advice of the Judicial Service Commission, Dlodlo would join the bench permanently as a judge of the Western Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa.
[2] The other frontrunner for the judicial vacancy was Geoff Budlender, a prominent white Senior Counsel, and Dlodlo's appointment therefore provoked public debate about demographic transformation and affirmative action in the judiciary.
[1] In April 2019, Dlodlo was one of several candidates whom the Judicial Service Commission shortlisted and interviewed for possible elevation to the Supreme Court of Appeal.
Recently turned 67, Dlodlo was asked obliquely about his age, and told the interview panel that he had "matured" through his long experience at the High Court.