List of female judges of the Supreme Court of India
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This is a list of female judges of the
Republic of India
. The list is ordered according to chronology.
The first female justice in the court was Fathima Beevi appointed on 6 October 1989. There have been 11 female justices in the court since then. Presently there is 3 sitting female judges out of the total 34 judges (including Chief Justice of India) in the court.[1][2]
List of Judges in chronology
- Key
- * Incumbent Judge
| S. No. | Portrait | Name | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | Position before being appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Fathima Beevi | 6 October 1989 | 29 April 1992 | Judge of the Kerala High Court | First female judge of the Supreme Court of India |
| 2 | Sujata Manohar | 8 November 1994 | 27 August 1999 | Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court | ||
| 3 | Ruma Pal | 28 January 2000 | 2 June 2006 | Judge of the Calcutta High Court | Longest-serving female judge of the Supreme Court of India | |
| 4 | Gyan Sudha Misra | 30 April 2010 | 27 April 2014 | Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court | ||
| 5 | Ranjana Desai | 13 September 2011 | 29 October 2014 | Judge of the Bombay High Court | ||
| 6 |  |
R. Banumathi | 13 August 2014 | 19 July 2020 | Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court | |
| 7 |  |
Indu Malhotra | 27 April 2018 | 13 March 2021 | Member of the High Level Committee (HLC) in the Ministry of Law and Justice[3] | First female judge who was elevated directly from the Bar Council of India |
| 8 |  |
Indira Banerjee | 7 August 2018 | 23 September 2022 | Chief Justice of the Madras High Court | |
| 9 |  |
Hima Kohli * | 31 August 2021 | 1 September 2024 | Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court | |
| 10 |  |
Bela Trivedi * | 31 August 2021 | 9 June 2025 | Judge of the Gujarat High Court | |
| 11 |  |
B. V. Nagarathna * | 31 August 2021 | 29 October 2027 | Judge of the Karnataka High Court | Assumed to be the first female Chief Justice of India in 2027 |
See also
- List of female governors and lieutenant governors in India
- List of female chief ministers in India
- List of chief justices of India
- List of sitting judges of the Supreme Court of India
- List of former judges of the Supreme Court of India
- List of first women lawyers and judges in Asia
References
- ^ "In A First, Supreme Court Has Three Sitting Woman Judges Today | Live Law". Live Law. 2018-08-07. Retrieved 2018-09-09.
- ^ "Indu Malhotra: India's supreme court is getting its seventh female judge in nearly 70 years — Quartz India". qz.com. Retrieved 2018-09-09.
- ^ "In 70th Year of Independence, India's Supreme Court to Get Seventh Woman Judge". The Wire. Retrieved 27 April 2018.