List of female judges of the Supreme Court of India

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The Supreme Court of India, in New Delhi

This is a list of women judges of the Supreme Court of India, the highest court in the Republic of India. The list is ordered according to chronology.

The first woman to become a justice in the court was Fathima Beevi, appointed on 6 October 1989. There have been 11 woman justices in the court since then. Presently there are two sitting women judges out of the total 34 judges (including Chief Justice of India) in the court. ^{[1] [2]}

List of Judges in chronology

Key

   Incumbent

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 woman 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 woman 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 woman 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 woman Chief Justice of India in 2027

See also

• List of female governors in India
• List of female lieutenant governors and administrators in India
• List of female chief ministers in India
• List of female deputy chief ministers in India
• List of female legislative speakers and chairpersons in India
• List of female leaders of the opposition 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

1. "In A First, Supreme Court Has Three Sitting Woman Judges Today | Live Law". Live Law. 2018-08-07. Retrieved 2018-09-09.
2. "Indu Malhotra: India's supreme court is getting its seventh female judge in nearly 70 years — Quartz India". qz.com. 26 April 2018. Retrieved 2018-09-09.
3. "In 70th Year of Independence, India's Supreme Court to Get Seventh Woman Judge". The Wire . Retrieved 27 April 2018.