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