BBC News By Ferdinand Omondi image copyrightZakheem Rajan Martha Koome is expected to make history in the coming weeks by becoming Kenya's first female chief justice. The 61-year-old came top of 10 candidates interviewed in front of live television audience by Kenya's Judicial Service Commission (JSC). "This woman is a breath of fresh air. She answers questions the way they have been asked and actually puts her own professional stamp on them," one person commented on YouTube about her performance. During her interview she referenced her difficult experience growing up in Meru in rural eastern Kenya in a polygamous family - she was born in 1960, three years before the end of colonial rule.