List of female judges of the Supreme Court of India

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 Fatima Beevi appointed on 6 October 1989. There have been 7 more female justices in the court since then. Presently there are 3 sitting female judges out of the total 28 judges (including Chief Justice of India) in the court namely R. Banumathi, Indu Malhotra and Indira Banerjee.

List of Judges in chronology

#	Name	Date of appointment	Date of retirement	Position before being appointed as Judge of Supreme Court	Notes
1	Fathima Beevi	6 October 1989	29 April 1992	judge of Kerala High Court	first female judge of Supreme Court
2	Sujata V. Manohar	8 November 1994	27 August 1999	Chief Justice of Kerala High Court
3	Ruma Pal	28 January 2000	2 June 2006	judge of Calcutta High Court	longest-serving female judge of Supreme Court
4	Gyan Sudha Misra	30 April 2010	27 April 2014	Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court
5	Ranjana Prakash Desai	13 September 2011	29 October 2014	judge of Bombay High Court
6	R. Banumathi	13 August 2014	19 July 2020	Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court	Incumbent
7	Indu Malhotra	27 April 2018	13 March 2021	Member of the High Level Committee (HLC) in the Ministry of Law and Justice	First female judge who was elevated directly from Bar Council and Incumbent
8	Indira Banerjee	7 August 2018	23 September 2022	Chief Justice of the Madras High Court	Incumbent