Personal: 
Roland Terence Sutherland, b 1 February 1951.
Married to Janet Montgomery.
Two sons: Andrew and Graeme.
Education:
St Catherine’s Convent School, Florida, 1957 – 1960
Florida English Medium Primary School, 1960 -1963
Florida Park High School, 1964 - 1968
University of The Witwatersrand:
BA (History and Law) 1972
LLB 1975
Higher Diploma in Tax Law 1982
Certificate in Industrial Relations, 1989
MA (Applied Ethics) 2016
Professional Occupational History:
Clerk of the Magistrate’s Court 1968 - 1972
Public Prosecutor, District Magistrates’ Court 1972 -1974
Public Prosecutor, Regional Magistrates’ Court 1974 – 1975
Public Prosecutor, Specialised Industrial Court for the Province of Transvaal, 1975
State Advocate, Johannesburg and Pretoria High Courts, 1976-1977
Member of the Johannesburg Bar, 1977 – 2011
Silk, 1995
Legal Counsellor, Urban Training Project, Labour Law Clinic 1978-1980
Arbitrator and Mediator, Independent Mediation Service of South Africa 1987 – 1995
Small Claims Commissioner 1985 - 2011
Acting Judge, Johannesburg High court, on several occasions: 1997-2011
Acting Judge, Labour Court, on several occasions: 1997 - 2004
Judge of the Gauteng Division of the High Court, 2012 –
Acting Deputy Judge-President, Gauteng Division, Johannesburg: 2019 and 2020.
Judge of Appeal in the Labour Appeal Court: 2014 -
Acting Judge, Supreme Court of Appeal: 1 June 2020 - 30 November 2020
Participation in Legal Professional Affairs:
Chairman, Alternative Dispute Resolution Association of South Africa (ADRASA) 1995 -1996
Honorary Secretary, Johannesburg Bar Council, 1990
Member of Johannesburg Bar Council, 1990 – 1999,
Chairman, Johannesburg Bar Council, 1998/99
Honorary Secretary, General Council of the Bar of South Africa, 1993-1995
Vice Chairman, General Council of the Bar of South Africa, 1999-2001
Chairman, Finance Committee of the General Council of the Bar, 2001 – 2011
Leader, The Bridge Group of Advocates 1999- 2007
Lecturer in Professional Ethics, Johannesburg Bar Pupillage Programme, 2011 – 2013
Member of the General Council of the Bar and Johannesburg Bar, Advocacy Training Team 1996 –
RTS.
