Justice Skweyiya retired from the Constitutional Court in May 2014, thereby leaving a vacancy. In 2012, the list of candidates interviewed for the Constitutional Court had only one woman on the four-person list; in 2013 the interview list included men only. In July 2015, for the first time the Judicial Service Commission will be presented with an allfemale list for the position of judges of the Constitutional Court. With reference to the above statement, relevant sections of the Constitution, practical examples and case law, if any, critically discuss the merits and transformational requirements for the appointment of judges in South Africa vis--vis the requirement that judges should be "fit and proper" persons.