Supreme Court will for the first time in its history have three sitting women judges!
The Supreme Court will for the first time in its history have three sitting women judges! With the swearing-in of Justice Indira Banerjee, she becomes the eighth woman judge in the Supreme Court since Independence. She became a high court judge on February 5, 2002 and was made a chief justice of the Calcutta High Court on April 5, 2017. She will retire on September 23, 2022. Among the three sitting women judges, Justice R Banumathi is the senior most and was elevated to the apex court on August 13, 2014. The first woman judge of the apex court was Justice Fathima Beevi who was appointed in 1989, 39 years after the Supreme Court was set up in 1950. She was elevated to the apex court after her retirement as a judge of the Kerala High Court. The second was Justice Sujata V Manohar, who started her career as a judge of the Bombay High Court and rose to become the chief justice of Kerala High Court. She was elevated to the apex court where she remained from November 8, 1994 till August 27, 1999. -PTC News
