# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-goldstone
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:26:50.029Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-goldstone"
name: "Richard Goldstone"
slug: "richard-goldstone"
description: "Richard Joseph Goldstone is a South African retired judge who served in the Constitutional Court of South Africa from July 1994 to October 2003. He joined the bench as a judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa, first in the Transvaal Provincial Division from 1980 to 1989 and then in the Appellate Division from 1990 to 1994. Before that, he was a commercial lawyer in Johannesburg, where he entered legal practice in 1963 and took silk in 1976."
tagline: "South African former judge"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Goldstone.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1938-10-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump