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]
| S. No. | Portrait | Name | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | Position before being appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 October 1989 | 29 April 1992 | First woman judge of the Supreme Court of India | ||||
| 2 | 8 November 1994 | 27 August 1999 | |||||
| 3 | 28 January 2000 | 2 June 2006 | Longest-serving woman judge of the Supreme Court of India | ||||
| 4 | 30 April 2010 | 27 April 2014 | |||||
| 5 | 13 September 2011 | 29 October 2014 | |||||
| 6 | 13 August 2014 | 19 July 2020 | |||||
| 7 | 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 | 7 August 2018 | 23 September 2022 | |||||
| 9 | 31 August 2021 | 1 September 2024 | |||||
| 10 | 31 August 2021 | 9 June 2025 | |||||
| 11 | 31 August 2021 | 29 October 2027 | Assumed to be the first woman Chief Justice of India in 2027 |