This is a list of female judges of the Supreme Court of India, the highest court in 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.
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