Leonora van den Heever (born 9 July 1926) is a former judge of the High Court of South Africa.
She attended the C&N Sekondêre Meisieskool Oranje in Bloemfontein, after which she completed her tertiary studies at the University of Pretoria, where she obtained, cum laude, her BA degree in English and Latin followed by a MA degree, cum laude, in English.
[4] She then taught at the Normaalkollege in Bloemfontein but, persuaded by her father, she temporarily started working as a judges registrar and also began her LLB part-time through the University of the Orange Free State, graduating in 1951.
In 1991 she became the first female judge to be appointed permanently to the appellate division of the South African Supreme Court in Bloemfontein where she served until she retired.
After retiring at age 70, she agreed to some work in the Cape Provincial Division and served for a number of years on the Appeal Benches of Lesotho and Swaziland.