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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]
Leila Seth (20 October 1930 – 5 May 2017) was an Indian judge who served as the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and became the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court, Himachal Pradesh High Court, on 5 August 1991. [1] She was also the first woman to be designated as a senior counsel by the Supreme Court of India. [2]
In May 2020, B.V. Nagarathna was reported as being considered for appointment to the Supreme Court of India, leading a number of commentators to note that this would make her eligible to become the first female chief justice of the India Supreme Court. [12] [6] [11]
M. Fathima Beevi (30 April 1927 – 23 November 2023) was an Indian judge who was a justice of the Supreme Court of India.Appointed to the apex Court in 1989, she ...
Sanjiv Khanna, the incumbent chief justice of India, since 11 November 2024 The chief justice of India is the highest-ranking officer of the Indian judiciary and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of India. As head of the Supreme Court, the chief justice is responsible for the allocation of cases and appointment of constitutional benches which deal with important matters of law. In ...
(Chief Justice of India) Male 46th CJI Ranjan Gogoi. Nominated as CJI by. 50th CJI Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud. Ram Nath Kovind. Appointed as CJI by. Droupadi Murmu. 18 January 2019 (6 years, 14 days) Appointed as CJI on. 11 November 2024 (82 days) 13 May 2025 (−101 days) 6 years, 116 days Tenure length as CJI. 184 days Delhi: 33 24 June ...
Irawati Karve, India's first female anthropologist, ... Born in British-ruled India, and at a time when women didn't have many rights or freedoms, Karve did the unthinkable: she pursued higher ...
This made Chandy the first female judge in India. In 1948, she was raised to the position of District Judge. [5] [6] She became the first female judge in an Indian high court when she was appointed to the Kerala High Court on 9 February 1959. She remained in that office until her retirement on 5 April 1967. [7]