Prof Kameri-Mbote (left) with Chief Registrar of the Judiciary Anne Amadi at the Supreme Court buildings during the CJ interviews last month.

Martha Karambu Koome is poised to become Kenya’s first woman Chief Justice after being nominated by the Judicial Service Commission panel that interviewed 10 candidates to succeed retired Chief Justice David Maraga.

The interviews proved what is already known, but reluctantly accepted by some key quarters of our patriarchal society – that the country is not short of qualified women in all segments of its development. WON Executive Director Njeri Rugene writes in Daily Nation. Read more.