query: who was the first woman judge to be appointed chief justice of a high court

pos: Leila Seth Leila Seth Leila Seth (20 October 1930 – 5 May 2017) was the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and she became the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court on 5 August 1991. She sat on a number of enquiry commissions, including one into the death of 'Biscuit Baron' Rajan Pillai, and was also a part of the three-member bench of the Justice Verma Committee that was established to overhaul India's rape laws in the aftermath of the infamous 2012 Delhi gang-rape case. She was a member of the 15th Law Commission of

pos: Leila Seth 1977, she was designated as a senior advocate by the Supreme Court. In 1978, Leila Seth became the Judge of the Delhi High Court, breaking the glass ceiling by becoming the first woman to do so. Her career continued to rise as she became the Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court, again the first woman to be the Chief Justice of a State High Court. Leila Seth chaired various judicial and humanitarian institutions. She was a member of the 15th Law Commission of India from 1997 to 2000, during which time she spearheaded the campaign to give daughters inheritance

neg: Sujata Manohar woman judge of that court. In January, 1994, she was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Bombay, the first woman to hold that post. In April, 1994, she was transferred as the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court, again the first woman to hold that post. At the end of 1994 (November), after 16 years as a High Court judge, she was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of India, the highest Indian court, from which post she retired in 1999. As a judge, she took a strongly independent stance, defending the rule of law

neg: Jammu and Kashmir High Court and Kashmir High Court got its first and second woman judges. Sindhu Sharma who was appointed as a Judge and Justice Gita Mittal who was appointed as the Chief Justice of the J&K High Court Justice Gita Mittal was sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court on 11 August 2018. Jammu and Kashmir High Court The Jammu and Kashmir High Court is the High Court of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It was established in the year 1928 by letters patent issued by the Maharaja of Jammu Kashmir. The seat of the

neg: Désirée Bernard the first woman to be Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Guyana. Désirée Bernard Désirée Patricia Bernard (born 2 March 1939) is a Guyanan lawyer and jurist who was the country's first female judge of the High Court in 1980 and Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court in 1992. She was appointed Chief Justice of Guyana in 1996, Chancellor of the Judiciary of Guyana and the Caribbean in 2001 and a Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice in 2005. In 2014, she was appointed to the Bermuda Court of Appeal. Bernard was born in Georgetown on 2 March

neg: High Court (Hong Kong) Affairs Commission be headed by a Chairman who is a High Court Judge (currently Mr Justice Fung) appointed by the Chief Executive in consultation with the Chief Justice. The Chief Executive also appoints three to six Judges of the Court of First Instance (currently Mr Justice Chung, Mr Justice Fung and Mr Justice Bharwaney) on the recommendation of the Chief Justice to serve as panel judges handling interception and surveillance authorisation requests from law enforcement agencies. The Chief Executive may appoint a High Court Judge to lead a public inquiry. For example, Mr Justice Andrew Chan was appointed in 2015

neg: Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh of Justice. She was later promoted to senior State Counsel and Principal State Council. In 1996 she was appointed as a High Court Judge, where she served until 2004, when she was appointed as a Court of Appeals Judge. She remained in that position until she was appointed as the Supreme Court's Chief Justice in 2008. She was sworn in as Sierra Leone's Chief Justice on January 25, 2008, succeeding retired Chief Justice Ade Renner Thomas. She was the first woman to hold the Chief Justice position in Sierra Leone's history . She proceeded on leave to retirement on 6

neg: Laeticia Kikonyogo various positions of responsibility in both the Catholic Church and the Judiciary. She was the first Uganda woman magistrate Grade I in 1971–1973; the first woman Chief Magistrate between 1973 and 1986; the first woman to be appointed High Court judge in 1986 and also sat on the Court of Appeal. She was later appointed the first woman Deputy Chief Justice of Uganda. In the Catholic Church, she was appointed as a Papal Dame by Pope Benedict XVI. She was one of the first ever women papal knights in the history of the Catholic Church in Africa. When she returned

neg: Supreme Court of India Hegde, R. F. Nariman, U. U. Lalit, L. Nageswara Rao and Indu Malhotra—have been appointed to the supreme court directly from the bar (i.e. who were practising advocates). The supreme court saw its first woman judge when Justice M. Fathima Beevi was sworn into office in 1989. The seventh and the most recent woman judge in the court is Justice Indu Malhotra. In 1968, Justice Mohammad Hidayatullah became the first Muslim Chief Justice of India. In 2000, Justice K. G. Balakrishnan became the first judge from the "dalit" community. In 2007 he also became the first "dalit" Chief Justice of

neg: K. K. Usha K. K. Usha K. K. Usha (born 3 July 1939) is a former Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court, India. K. K. Usha enrolled as an advocate in 1961. She was appointed Government pleader in the Kerala High Court in 1979. She was a judge and then Chief Justice in the high court from 25 February 1991 to 3 July 2001. She was the Chief Justice from 2000 to 2001. She was the first woman to join the high court from the bar and to become a Chief Justice. After retiring from the high court, from 2001 to 2004

neg: G. Rohini G. Rohini G. Rohini was the Chief justice of Delhi High Court. On 21 April 2014, she became the first woman chief Justice of the Delhi high court. Previously, she was the judge at Andhra Pradesh High Court. She retired as the Chief justice of Delhi High Court on 13.04.2017 on attaining superannuation. Justice Gita Mittal has been appointed as the Acting Chief Justice in her place. G. Rohini was born on 14 April 1955 in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. She completed her bachelor's degree in science at Osmania University and law at Andhra University College of Law, Visakhapatnam. She

neg: Mavis Gibson Mavis Gibson Mavis Gibson is a Zimbabwean lawyer and judge who was the first black woman appointed to High Court of Zimbabwe, and the first female and longest serving-justice of the High Court of Namibia. Born Mavis Gumede in Zimbabwe, Gibson was originally a journalist. In the 1970s, she was a barrister with chambers in Lincoln's Inn, London. Gibson was a Judge of the High Court of Zimbabwe for eleven years, and the country's first black woman judge. Gibson was appointed a Judge of Namibia's High Court on 18 December 1995. At times she also served as an Acting Judge

neg: Anne MacKenzie (judge) to the Supreme Court of British Columbia in 1996. MacKenzie was the first woman to be Associate Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia and the third person ever to be appointed to Associate Chief Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. The associate chief justice is the second-ranked judge on the province's superior trial court. In 2010, MacKenzie replaced Elizabeth Bennett as the jurist presiding over the corruption trails that resulted from the BC Legislature Raids. Anne MacKenzie (judge) Anne MacKenzie is a judge of the Court of Appeal of British Columbia since January 1, 2012.

neg: Bombay High Court recognised. The Judgment is a reported one (State of Maharashtra v. Narain Shyamrao Puranik) in AIR 1983 Supreme Court 46. When the High Court of Bombay constituted a bench in Goa, Justice G.F Couto was appointed its first Goan permanent judge. Justice G.D. Kamat was appointed as judge in 1983 and later in 1996 as Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court. Justice E.S da Silva was elevated in 1990 and was a judge of this court till his retirement in 1995. Justice F.I Rebello, was appointed Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court in 2010 and retired in 2011.

neg: Rekha Doshit Rekha Doshit Rekha Manharlal Doshit was the Chief Justice of Patna High Court, Patna in the Indian state of Bihar. The current chief justice is L. Narasimha Reddy. Doshit was born on 13 December 1952 in Rajkot, Gujarat, India. She graduated in Bombay University in Bachelor of Science and Law from Sir L.A. Shah Law College, Ahmedabad. She started her career as an advocate in 1977. In 1995, she was appointed as judge at Gujarat High Court. On 21 June 2010, Doshit was promoted to the Chief Justice of Patna High Court, and thus became the first woman Chief Justice

neg: Mathilda Twomey Ireland, upon moving to Ireland in 1995. On 13 April 2011, she became the first female judge in Seychelles after she was sworn in as a non-resident judge; and on 18 August 2015, she also became the first woman to be appointed Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of Seychelles after she was sworn in at the State House, Victoria, succeeding Frederick Egonda-Ntende. Mathilda Twomey Mathilda Twomey (née Butler-Payette) is a Seychellois lawyer and academic. She is the first female judge in the history of Seychelles and also the first woman to be appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

neg: Julie Manning Julie Manning Julie Manning was a Tanzanian lawyer, judge and politician. The first Tanzanian woman to study law, she was a High Court judge before serving as Minister of Justice from 1975 to 1983. In 1963 Julie Manning became the first woman to study law at the University of East Africa. She later worked as a law draughtswoman in the Attorney General's Chamber. In 1973 she was appointed judge of the High Court of Tanzania, making her the first African woman High Court judge in east or central Africa. In 1975 she was appointed Minister of Justice, making her one

neg: Florence Rita Arrey first woman to be appointed State Counsel in Cameroon in 1974. She was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 1984 and in 1990 became the first woman appointed Chief Justice. In 2000, she was appointed to the Supreme Court of Cameroon. Arrey was elected an ad litem Judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) by the United Nations General Assembly in 2003. In 2012, she was elected Vice President of the ICTR and Judge of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals. In 2014, Arrey was appointed Director of Judicial Professions in the Ministry of Justice Cameroon. She

neg: Simon Li became a crown counsel in Hong Kong's Legal Department in 1953. He became the judge of the District Court in 1963. Li was the first Chinese judge to be appointed to the High Court in 1971 and was elevated to Justice of Appeal in 1980. He was the first Chinese to be appointed to the Vice-President of the Court of Appeal in 1984. In 1986 he became the first Hong Kong Chinese to act as Chief Justice for the then Chief Justice Denys Roberts. He retired in 1987 at the age of 64 as the colony's most senior Chinese judge.

neg: Govind Mathur as Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court. Govind Mathur Govind Mathur (born 14 April 1959) is an Indian judge and Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court. Mathur was appointed as additional judge of Rajasthan High Court on 2nd Sept 2004. He was promoted to permanent judge on 29th May 2006. He was transferred to Allahabad High Court on 21st November 2017.<br> On 24th October 2018, being the senior most Justice of court, he took the oath as acting Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court. On 10th November 2018, he was appointed as Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court.

neg: Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar (Hindi: कान्ता भटनागर - 13 August 2011) was a judge and human rights activist in India. Bhatnagar was the first woman to become a Chief Justice of the Madras High Court and was the first chairperson of the Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission. Bhatnagar worked as a judge in Rajasthan in 1968. She became the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court in June 1992. She was the first woman to serve as chief justice of that court and held that post for around five months. Bhatnagar became the first chair of the Rajasthan

neg: Chief Justice of Gibraltar Judicial Services Act. During Schofield's suspension, Additional Judge Anthony Dudley was acting Chief Justice. On 1 February 2010, The Convent announced that acting on the advice of the Judicial Services Commission, Governor Sir Adrian Johns had on behalf of Queen Elizabeth, formally appointed Anthony Dudley as Chief Justice of Gibraltar. He is the first Gibraltarian judge to be appointed Chief Justice of Gibraltar. Court system of Gibraltar Chief Justice of Gibraltar The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Gibraltar is one of the four judges who make up the supreme court of Gibraltar. Previously the Chief Justice was appointed

neg: Indira Banerjee was enrolled as an advocate on 5 July 1985 and practised before the Calcutta High Court. Indira Banerjee was appointed as a permanent Judge of the Calcutta High Court on 5 February 2002 and transferred to the Delhi High Court with effect from 8 August 2016. She was elevated as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court and assumed charge on 5 April 2017. Justice Banerjee succeeded Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, after he was elevated to the Supreme Court of India. She is the second woman to head the chartered

neg: Mohammad Hidayatullah of a High Court. In November 1956, he was then appointed as the Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court. On 1 December 1958, he was elevated as a justice to the Supreme Court of India. In his time he was the youngest judge of the Supreme Court of India. After serving as a judge for nearly 10 years, he was appointed as the Chief Justice of India on 28 February 1968 – becoming the first Muslim Chief Justice of India. He retired from this position on 16 December 1970. During his term as the Chief Justice of India, the

neg: Sindh High Court give preference to the construction of this building and provide necessary funds, the building is not going to be completed within a year or two. High Court of Sindh consists of a Chief Justice and 27 other Judges. A Judge of the High Court is appointed by the President after consultation with the Chief Justice of Pakistan, the Governor of the Province and the Chief Justice of the High Court in which appointment is to be made. No person is appointed as a Judge of the High Court unless he is a citizen of Pakistan having forty years and has

neg: J. B. Koshy J. B. Koshy Justice Jacob Benjamin Koshy was born on 13-5-1947 to Mr. Koshy who was then Principal of the Brickfield Higher Secondary School in Malaysia. Justice Jacob Benjamin Koshy is the chairman of Kerala Human Rights Commission. He was Chief Justice of Patna High Court. Justice Koshy was appointed Acting Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court following the elevation of Chief Justice H.L. Dattu as Supreme Court Judge. Appointed as Permanent Judge in 1996, Mr. Koshy was the Executive Chairman of the Kerala State Legal Services Authority. Justice JB Koshy, completed his early education at the Metropolitan High

neg: Chief Justice of Australia Chief Justice of Australia The Chief Justice of Australia is the presiding justice of the High Court of Australia and the highest-ranking judicial officer in the Commonwealth of Australia. The incumbent is Susan Kiefel, who is the first woman to hold the position. The office of Chief Justice of the High Court is established under section 71 of the Australian Constitution, which establishes the High Court as consisting of a Chief Justice and at least two other Justices. The Court was constituted by, and its first members were appointed under, the Judiciary Act 1903, with the first appointments to the

neg: Amarendra Nath Sen had started out as an advocate at the Calcutta High Court prior to independence in January 1947. He dealt with mainly civil cases in the Calcutta High Court. He was appointed an additional judge, and later a permanent judge there in 1966. He was appointed as the chief justice of the Calcutta High Court in December 1979. He was appointed as a judge in the Supreme Court of India in January 1981. He retired in September 1985. Amarendra Nath Sen Amarendra Nath Sen (born 1 October 1920) was a Bengali Indian jurist, who served as the chief justice of the

neg: Chief Justice of Canada longest serving Canadian chief justice (), and was the first woman to hold the position. The Chief Justice is appointed by the Governor General-in-Council under the federal "Supreme Court Act" on the advice of the Prime Minister. The appointment is subject to the "Supreme Court Act", which governs the administration and appointment of judges of the court. By this component of the Constitution of Canada, Judges appointed to the court must be "a judge of a superior court of a province or a barrister or advocate of at least ten years standing at the bar of a province." Tradition dictates

neg: R. Banumathi Madras High Court. She dealt with the case on banning "Jallikattu" or bull hugging sport. In November 2013, she was transferred to the Jharkhand High Court and was appointed Chief Justice of that court at the same time. In August 2014, she was elevated to the Supreme Court of India after her name had been recommended for the post by the collegium headed by then Chief Justice of India, R M Lodha. She is only the second woman sessions judge to rise to the country's highest court. R. Banumathi R. Banumathi (born 20 July 1955) is a judge of the

neg: Madhukar Hiralal Kania Madhukar Hiralal Kania Madhukar Hiralal Kania (born 18 November 1927) was the 23rd Chief Justice of India, serving from 13 December 1991 until his retirement on 17 November 1992. He was born in Bombay. His uncle was Harilal J. Kania, the first Chief Justice of India. He began his legal career in 1964, and was appointed as a Judge of Bombay High Court in November-1971. In June 1986 he was appointed as Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. In May 1987, he was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and became the Chief Justice of

neg: Govind Mathur Govind Mathur Govind Mathur (born 14 April 1959) is an Indian judge and Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court. Mathur was appointed as additional judge of Rajasthan High Court on 2nd Sept 2004. He was promoted to permanent judge on 29th May 2006. He was transferred to Allahabad High Court on 21st November 2017.<br> On 24th October 2018, being the senior most Justice of court, he took the oath as acting Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court. On 10th November 2018, he was appointed as Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court. On 14th November 2018, he took oath

neg: Deepak Gupta (judge) 2013, in the process becoming the first judge from Himachal Pradesh to be directly appointed as the Chief Justice of another state. He was transferred to the Chhattisgarh High Court and was the sworn in as the Chief Justice on 16 May 2016. He was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court of India and sworn in on 17 February 2017. On 5 June 2017, in an unprecedented situation, he heard and disposed of 33 cases on a single day; he held the court alone as his colleague Mohan Shantanagoudar, who was to head the bench reported unwell. Deepak

neg: Koka Subba Rao insisted on having Subbarao as the Special Officer to facilitate the formation of High Court. Automatically he became the Chief Justice. When Sri Venkateswara University was established at Tirupati in 1954, Subbarao became its first Chancellor and remained in the position till the University Act was amended restoring the Chancellorship to the Governor. After tenures as a judge at Madras High Court and a Chief Justice at Andhra Pradesh High Court, he was appointed as a Supreme Court judge on 31 January 1958. He was appointed as Chief Justice of India on 30 June 1966. His most famous judgment was

neg: Vikramajit Sen Vikramajit Sen Justice Vikramajit Sen (born 31 December 1950) was a judge of the Supreme Court of India. A former Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court. Sen is graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in History. On 7 July 1999, Sen was appointed as an additional judge of the Delhi High Court and on 30 October 2000, he was appointed as a permanent judge. On 12 September 2011 he was transferred to Karnataka High Court as an acting Chief Justice and subsequently on 24 December 2011, he assumed office as Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court. On 24 December

neg: Mian Abdul Rashid He was then appointed as Assistant Legal Remembrancer. In summer of 1923, he was appointed as acting judge of Lahore High Court on recommendation of Sir Shadilal, who was then Chief Justice of the said court. From 1927 to 1931 he officiated as Government of Punjab's Advocate. He was appointed as Judge Lahore High Court in 1933. In 1946, he was made Chief Justice of Judicature at Lahore, and was knighted in that year's Birthday Honours list. On 15 August 1947, when Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was sworn in as the first Governor-General of Pakistan, Rashid, as the most senior

neg: Balochistan High Court Balochistan High Court The High Court of Balochistan () is the highest judicial institution of Balochistan, Pakistan. The court is formally known as High Court of Balochistan. It is situated at the provincial capital Quetta. Mir Ali Dost Bugti was the first judge of Balochistan High Court. Currently Justice Mrs. Tahira Safdar is the Chief Justice. Balochistan High Court is headed by a Chief Justice. The bench consist of Justices and additional judges. The retirement age of Chief Justice and Justices is 62 years. The Additional Judges are initially appointed for one year. After that their services could either be

neg: Ananga Kumar Patnaik Chhattisgarh on 14 March 2005. He was praised by the then Chief Justice of India Ramesh Chandra Lahoti for his role in the running of Chhattisgarh High Court. Later that year he became Chief Justice of the High Court of Madhya Pradesh, serving there for four years. During his tenure as the Chief Justice of both these states he was known for his bold judgements and was seen to be as judge who was pro poor and strongly supported the underprivileged classes. On 17 November 2009, he was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of India which he

neg: Tom O'Higgins by 52% to 48%. Shortly afterwards O'Higgins was appointed a Judge of the High Court. In 1974, after the sudden death of William FitzGerald, O'Higgins, although the most junior High Court judge, was chosen to replace him as Chief Justice of Ireland in the Supreme Court and a Judge of the Supreme Court. After the sudden death of Erskine H. Childers, O'Higgins, in his role as Chief Justice swore in Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh as President of Ireland. He was Chief Justice until 1985, when he was appointed a Judge of the European Court of Justice. He remained there until 1991.

neg: Andrew Li and the Hong Kong Bar in 1973. His first ever pupil was Audrey Eu, who commenced her pupillage in 1978. Her brother and senior counsel was also Li's pupil. Former Secretary for Justice Wong Yan Lung was Li's last pupil. In 1988, he was appointed Queen's Counsel. He was appointed a Deputy Judge of the District Court of Hong Kong in 1982 and a Deputy High Court Judge in 1991. In 1997, Li was appointed the Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal by Tung Chee-Hwa, the first Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region after the

neg: Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale Government Pleader and Assistant Public Prosecutor at the court from 1986 to 1991. He was appointed an Additional Judge at the Bombay High Court in January 2001 and promoted to be a Permanent Judge two years later. Beginning 2012, Bhosale was made a sitting Judge at the High Court of Karnataka. On 30th July 2016, he was promoted to Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court. <br> On 23rd October 2018, he was retired from High Court. Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale Justice Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale (born 24 October 1956) was the Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad from

neg: S. Abdul Nazeer 1983 and practiced at the Karnataka High Court in Bengaluru. In May 2003, he was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Karnataka High Court. He was later appointed a Permanent Judge of the same High Court. In February 2017, while serving as a judge of the Karnataka High Court, Nazeer was elevated to the Supreme Court of India. He became only the third judge ever to be elevated in this way, without first becoming the chief justice of some high court. In the Supreme Court, Abdul Nazeer was the lone Muslim judge in a multi-faith bench which heard the

neg: John Muria is currently the Chief Justice of the High Court of Kiribati. Muria was appointed as the Chancellor of the Solomon Islands National University, which was officially launched on 18 April 2013. John Muria Sir John Baptist Muria is a Solomon Islands judge and was the first indigenous Solomon Islander to be Chief Justice of the Solomon Islands. Muria was Chief Justice of the Solomon islands from 1992 to 2003. He then sat as a judge on the courts of Sierra Leone from 2003 to 2006, sitting on each of the High Court of Sierra Leone, the Court of Appeal of

neg: Humchadakatte G. Ramesh subsequently appointed in his place. Humchadakatte G. Ramesh Justice Humchadakatte Gopalaiah Ramesh (born 16 January 1957) is an Indian jurist. He served as the acting Chief Justice at the High Court of Karnataka between October 2017 and February 2018. Justice Ramesh enrolled as an advocate in 1982 and began his practice at Karnataka High Court. He was appointed an Additional Judge of the Court in May 2003 and elevated as a Permanent Judge in September 2004. In February 2017, he turned down the Supreme Court collegium's offer to be made the Chief Justice of Madras High Court. "The Economic Times"

neg: Ranganath Misra aged 59, leaving both his parents bereft with grief. On 18 September 1950 he got enrolled as advocate of Orissa High Court, Cuttack where he practiced law until 1969 when he was appointed as a Permanent Judge of the Orissa High Court. From 6 November 1980 to 16 January 1981 he was appointed as the acting Chief Justice of Orissa High Court, and from 16 January 1981 he was appointed as the permanent Chief Justice of the Orissa High court. He was then appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of India in 1983. He became the Chief Justice of the

neg: Kalpana Rawal run a law firm in Kenya - a move that put her in the long path to being appointed the first female judge of Asian origin by then President Daniel Moi. The remarkable woman from India would serve in the highest court in the land as the deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Her father U.J. Bhatt served as a judge in the Gujarat High Court and her grandfather Jaduram Bhatt who was a law minister. Kalpana was born in 1946 in Bhuj (Kutch), India to Umangilal (U.J) and Anuben Bhatt of Gujrat. When she was born, India was

neg: Lascelles Robotham High Court Judge 1964. In 1976, he became a member of the Jamaican Court of Appeal. In 1979, Robotham left Jamaica after being appointed to be a High Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court by the Judicial and Legal Services Commission of the Caribbean Community. His first assignment was to reside in and hear cases from Antigua and Barbuda. He became a Justice of Appeal of the Court in 1982, and in 1984 he became the Chief Justice. As Chief Justice, Robotham was the supreme judicial officer of the courts of Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, the British Virgin

neg: S. H. Kapadia the Bombay High Court on 10 September 1974. Kapadia was appointed as an additional judge of the Bombay High Court on 8 October 1991 and on 23 March 1993 he was appointed as a permanent judge. On 5 August 2003 he became the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court. On 18 December 2003 he was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court. On 12 May 2010 he was sworn in as the Chief Justice of India by the then President Pratibha Patil. He retired on 29 September 2012. During his tenure as Chief Justice he was the Chairman

neg: Florence K. Murray state senate and served from 1949 to 1956. She was the first woman to serve as a state senator in Rhode Island. She was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1952. In 1956, she was the first woman appointed as a Superior Court judge in Rhode Island. In 1978, she was appointed Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court. In November 1979, she was elected by the Rhode Island General Assembly as an associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. She was the first female supreme court justice in Rhode Island. She retired from the court

neg: Madhukar Hiralal Kania India in December 1991. Madhukar Hiralal Kania Madhukar Hiralal Kania (born 18 November 1927) was the 23rd Chief Justice of India, serving from 13 December 1991 until his retirement on 17 November 1992. He was born in Bombay. His uncle was Harilal J. Kania, the first Chief Justice of India. He began his legal career in 1964, and was appointed as a Judge of Bombay High Court in November-1971. In June 1986 he was appointed as Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. In May 1987, he was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and became

neg: Kumar Rajarathnam Kumar Rajarathnam Kumar Rajarathnam (born: 13 March 1942—27 September 2015) is an Indian Barrister and Former Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. He was the first barrister to be appointed as a judge, after the Independence of India. Rajarathnam studied at Loyola College, Chennai and called to the Bar from Gray's lnn. He was enrolled as an advocate on 10 March 1971 and started his lawyer career in the Madras High Court. On 1 January 1994 he was appointed as the Judge of Madras High Court. Justice Rajarathnam was transferred to the Karnataka High Court on 24 January

neg: Raghunandan Swarup Pathak College, Allahabad and had studied law at Allahabad University. After practising law at Allahabad, he became Judge at Allahabad High Court in 1962 and later Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court in 1972. Pathak was made a judge at Supreme Court of India in 1978 and became its 18th Chief Justice on 21 December 1986. He is remembered as a judge who was a man of the middle and was able to bring relative peace to the Court. He served as Chief justice for two and a half years during which time a dozen judges were appointed to the

neg: Mavis Gibson of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Namibia. On her retirement in April 2008 she was the longest-serving member of the High Court. Mavis Gibson Mavis Gibson is a Zimbabwean lawyer and judge who was the first black woman appointed to High Court of Zimbabwe, and the first female and longest serving-justice of the High Court of Namibia. Born Mavis Gumede in Zimbabwe, Gibson was originally a journalist. In the 1970s, she was a barrister with chambers in Lincoln's Inn, London. Gibson was a Judge of the High Court of Zimbabwe for eleven years, and the country's first black woman

neg: Prabha Shankar Mishra Prabha Shankar Mishra Prabha Shankar Mishra (6 August 1936 – 1 July 2012) or P.S. Mishra was an Indian Judge and the Chief Justice of Calcutta and Andhra Pradesh High Court Mishra passed M.Sc. and LL.B. from Patna University and got the enrollment in 1960. He started practise in the Patna High Court and in 1982 he was appointed as a Judge of the Patna High Court. Justice Mishra was transferred to the Madras High Court in 1990, thereafter appointed as the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in 1995. in 1997 he became the Chief Justice of

neg: Manoj Kumar Mukherjee High Court on 12 November 1991 as Chief Justice. Mukherjee became the Chief Justice Bombay High Court in January 1993. He was also appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court in 1993. After retirement Mr. Mukherjee was appointed as the chairperson of Mukherjee Commission in 1999 to inquire into the death of Subhas Chandra Bose. His name was recommended by the then Chief Justice of India. Manoj Kumar Mukherjee Manoj Kumar Mukherjee ( Born: 1 December 1933) was the Chief Justices of the Bombay High Court and Allahabad High Court and former judge of the Supreme Court of India.

neg: Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal 1999, he was appointed as Chief Justice of Bombay High Court. In less than a year, he was appointed as a judge, Supreme Court of India. Being the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court of India at the time, Sabharwal was appointed as the Chief Justice of India to succeed Mr. R.C. Lahoti who was retiring on 31 October 2005. He was sworn in as the Chief Justice by the President of India, A P J Abdul Kalam on 1 November 2005 for a period of about 14 months as he would turn 65, the retirement age for Chief Justices,

neg: Avula Sambasiva Rao as the 2nd Government Pleader of Andhra Pradesh. Rao was appointed as permanent judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court on 22 April 1967. Acted as Chief Justice of High Court of Andhra Pradesh from 25 January 1975 to 10 January 1976. Appointed as permanent Chief Justice on 9 April 1978, Rao retired on 16 March 1979. He was also Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University, Waltair. Avula Sambasiva Rao Justice Avula Sambasiva Rao (16 March 1917 in Mulpuru, Guntur district - 27 July 2003) was an Indian judge who was a Lok Ayukta and Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh; and also

neg: Shivaraj Patil Shivaraj Patil Shivaraj Virupanna Patil (born 12 January 1940) is a retired Indian judge who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of India between 2000 and 2005. Patil joined the bar in 1962, practising in Hyderabad until the late 1970s. In 1990 he became a judge of the Karnataka High Court, transferring to the Madras High Court in 1994. He served as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from late 1998 until becoming Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court in early 1999. Patil was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of India in March 2000,

neg: Dipak Misra the Orissa High Court in 1996. The following year, he was transferred to the Madhya Pradesh High Court, where he was made a Permanent Judge on 19 December 1997. In December 2009, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Patna High Court, serving until May 2010, when he was appointed Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court. He was elevated to the Supreme Court on 10 October 2011. Justice Misra had a tenure of thirteen months as chief justice at the Supreme Court after being appointed as the 45th Chief Justice of India on 28 August 2017 until mandatory retirement

neg: Mukesh Shah of the Gujarat High Court on March 7, 2004 and appointed as Permanent Judge on June 22, 2005. He was appointed as Chief Justice of Patna High Court on August 12, 2018. He was appointed Judge of Supreme Court of India on November 2, 2018. Mukesh Shah Mukeshkumar Rasikbhai Shah (born 16 May 1958) is Judge of Supreme Court of India since 2 November 2018. He was the Chief Justice of the of the Patna High Court. He is going to retire on 15 May 2023. Shri Justice Mukesh Rasikbhai Shah, B.Sc., LL.B.was born on May 16, 1958. He was

neg: Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss from the Inner Temple in 1955. In 1958, she married Joseph Butler-Sloss. She was appointed a Registrar at the Principal Registry of the Family Division in 1970. In 1979, she became the fourth woman to be appointed a High Court judge, after Elizabeth Lane, Rose Heilbron, and Margaret Booth. As were all previous female High Court judges, she was assigned to the Family Division. She was also made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE). In 1988, she became the first woman appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal (judge of the Court of

neg: Vinod Kumar Gupta as Judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court. He was transferred to Calcutta High Court in 1996 and was appointed as Acting Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court in 15 November 2000. He took oath as the First permanent Chief Justice of this High Court on 5 December 2000. Thereafter Justice Gupta joined as the Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court in 2003. Before the retirement he also held the post of the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court since 2 February 2008 to 9 September 2009. Vinod Kumar Gupta Vinod Kumar Gupta also known as V.

neg: Mohan Shantanagoudar Mohan Shantanagoudar Mohan Mallikarjunagouda Shantanagoudar (born 5 May 1958 in Chikkerur, Haveri District, Karnataka) is an Indian Judge. He was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme court of India on 17 February 2017. He has also served as the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court before his elevation to the Supreme Court of India. He initially practiced at the Karnataka High Court as an advocate, later appointed as the Additional Judge in 2003, and elevated as a permanent judge of the Karnataka High Court on 29 September 2004. He was appointed as the acting chief justice of the

neg: Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar State Human Rights Commission in 2000. She died at age 81 of a heart attack in Udaipur on 13 August 2011. Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar (Hindi: कान्ता भटनागर - 13 August 2011) was a judge and human rights activist in India. Bhatnagar was the first woman to become a Chief Justice of the Madras High Court and was the first chairperson of the Rajasthan State Human Rights Commission. Bhatnagar worked as a judge in Rajasthan in 1968. She became the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court in June 1992. She was the first woman to serve as

neg: Konamaneni Amareswari as the Vice-President of the Andhra Pradesh High Court Advocates Association during the period 1975-1976. In the year 1978 on 29 April she was appointed permanent Judge for Andhra Pradesh High Court. She died on 25 July 2009, in New Delhi where she had been practising as a senior advocate at the Supreme Court. She is survived by a son and daughter. Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and several other political leaders conveyed their condolences to the family members. Konamaneni Amareswari Justice K. Amareswari (1928–2009) was the first woman judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. Amareswari was born in

neg: Leonard Stone (judge) he was appointed Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. He was knighted in 1943, and was appointed an OBE the same year. He subsequently served as Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster from 1948 to 1963. He died in 1978, aged 81. List of Chief Justices of the Bombay High Court Leonard Stone (judge) Sir (John) Leonard Stone, OBE, KC (6 November 1896 – 3 January 1978) was the last British Chief Justice of the High Court of Bombay, serving from 30 September 1943 until 1948. Educated at Malvern College, he served in the First World War and

neg: Anwar Zaheer Jamali reappointed as Judge and Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court on 27 August 2008. He was elevated as judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 3 August 2009 and appointed as Acting Chief Election Commissioner of the Election Commission of Pakistan on 3 July 2014. He was appointed as 24th Chief Justice of Pakistan on 10 September 2015 by President Mamnoon Hussain. Anwar Zaheer Jamali Anwar Zaheer Jamali ( born 31 December 1951), is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 24th Chief Justice of Pakistan. He remained in the Supreme Court from 3 August 2009 to 30

neg: Lyn Stuart Circuit Judge by Governor Fob James and re-elected without opposition in 1998. She resigned as a Circuit Judge upon her election to the Alabama Supreme Court. Stuart and her husband, George, have two sons and a daughter. Lyn Stuart Lyn Stuart (born c. 1955) is an American jurist and the first Republican woman Chief Justice of Alabama and the second woman to hold the office. She was first appointed by Alabama Governor Kay Ivey as "acting" Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama on May 6, 2016, when her predecessor, Roy Moore, was suspended from office. At the time

neg: Bhupinder Nath Kirpal Bhupinder Nath Kirpal Bhupinder Nath Kirpal (B. N. Kirpal) (born November 8, 1937) was the 31st Chief Justice of India, serving from 6 May 2002 until his retirement on 7 November 2002. He began his legal career as an advocate in 1962, and was appointed as a Judge of Delhi High Court in November 1979. In December 1993, he was appointed as Chief Justice of the Gujarat High Court. In September 1995, he was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and became Chief Justice of India in May 2002. Even after retirement as the Chief Justice he

neg: Désirée Bernard Désirée Bernard Désirée Patricia Bernard (born 2 March 1939) is a Guyanan lawyer and jurist who was the country's first female judge of the High Court in 1980 and Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court in 1992. She was appointed Chief Justice of Guyana in 1996, Chancellor of the Judiciary of Guyana and the Caribbean in 2001 and a Judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice in 2005. In 2014, she was appointed to the Bermuda Court of Appeal. Bernard was born in Georgetown on 2 March 1939, the only child of William and Maude Bernard. Her father was

neg: Saiyed Saghir Ahmad Pradesh Government in 1976 and of the Northern Railway in 1971. He was appointed Additional Judge of Allahabad High Court on 2 November 1981 and permanent Judge on 30 December 1982. He was transferred to the Jammu & Kashmir High Court on 1 November 1993. He was appointed the Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir High Court on 18 March 1994. He was transferred as Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court on 23 September 1994. He was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 6 March 1995 and retired on 30 June 2000. Saiyed Saghir Ahmad

neg: T. S. Thakur Court of J & K on 16 February 1994 and transferred as judge of the High Court of Karnataka in March 1994. He was appointed as a permanent judge in September 1995. He was transferred as a judge of the High Court of Delhi in July 2004. He was appointed as Acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court on 9 April 2008 and took over as the Chief Justice of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana on 11 August 2008. He was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court and assumed charge on 17 November 2009. He

neg: Bill Clinton Supreme Court candidates ultimately decided that Breyer seemed "heartless." "I don't see enough humanity", Clinton told his staff. "I want a judge with soul." Clinton then considered a list of "firsts" for diversity purposes: David Tatel, a Washington lawyer who had served in the Carter Administration who would be the first blind justice; Jose Cabranes, a district court judge who would be the first Hispanic justice, and D.C. Circuit judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who, Stephanopoulos writes, "would be the first Jewish justice since Abe Fortas, and the first woman to be appointed by a Democrat. More important, she was a pioneer in the

neg: Indira Banerjee High Court, after Justice Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar who headed the Court between June and November 1992. Indira Banerjee Justice Indira Banerjee is presently a Judge in the Supreme Court of India, the 8th female Judge in history and the 3rd female Judge of the Supreme Court of India at present. She was the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, the second woman to hold the postition in India. before being elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India. Indira Banerjee was born on 24 September 1957. She did her schooling at the Loreto House in Kolkata. She

neg: Manjula Chellur Manjula Chellur Manjula Chellur (born 5 December 1955) is a former Chief Justice of Bombay High Court. She was the first woman Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, was the Chief Justice of Kerala High Court and the first female judge of the Karnataka High Court. She demitted her office upon attaining the age of superannuation on 4 December 2017. Chellur was born in Karnataka. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Allum Sunmangalamma Women's College, Bellary, and went on to earn her law degree from Renukacharya Law College, Bangalore. In 1977 the Supreme Court of India sponsored her

neg: Mohammad Yaqoob Mir Additional Judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court in November 2007. On 1 October 2009 he became permanent Judge of the same High Court. Justice Mir took charge of the Acting Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court from 5 January 2015 to 2 February 2015. On 21 May 2018, he was appointed as Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court. Mohammad Yaqoob Mir Mohammad Yaqoob Mir (born: 28 May 1957) is an Indian Judge and present Chief justice of Meghalaya High Court. Mir was born in 1957 at Rajpora, Pulwama, Kashmir. He passed LL.B. from Kashmir University

neg: Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 as many Special Courts as may be necessary for such area or areas as may be specified in the notification. A Special Court shall consist of a single Judge who shall be appointed by the Government with the concurrence of the Chief Justice of the High Court. In this section, "High Court" means the High Court of the State in which the Session Judge or the Additional Sessional Judge of a Special Court was working immediately before his appointment as such Judge. A person shall not be qualified for appointment as a Judge of a Special Court unless he is,

neg: Chief Judge of Abia State Chief Judge of Abia State The Chief Judge of Abia State is the title or office appointed to the head of the judiciary of the Abia State Government. The Chief Judge is appointed by the Governor of Abia State to preside over the state's High Court and also to oversee and supervise its unified court system. The incumbent Chief Judge is Justice Theresa Uzokwe, who was appointed into the position by Theodore Orji on 22 December 2014. The Chief Judge is appointed by the Governor on the recommendation of the National Judicial Council subject to confirmation of the appointment by

neg: Anthony Mason (judge) sat as a member of the Court of Appeal. He held this position until 1972, when he was appointed to the bench of the High Court of Australia and received a knighthood (KBE). After fifteen years on the High Court, and following the retirement of Sir Harry Gibbs, in 1987 Mason was appointed Chief Justice; he retired in 1995 on reaching the constitutionally mandatory retirement age of 70. Mason had a significant influence over the High Court. Initially a conservative judge, his tenure as Chief Justice can be seen as the high-water mark of the movement away from the "strict

neg: Chief Judge of Abia State the Abia State House of Assembly as required by Section 271 of the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria. Chief Judge of Abia State The Chief Judge of Abia State is the title or office appointed to the head of the judiciary of the Abia State Government. The Chief Judge is appointed by the Governor of Abia State to preside over the state's High Court and also to oversee and supervise its unified court system. The incumbent Chief Judge is Justice Theresa Uzokwe, who was appointed into the position by Theodore Orji on 22 December 2014. The Chief Judge is appointed by

neg: Fidelma Macken Fidelma Macken Fidelma Nora Macken SC (née O'Kelly; born 28 February 1942) is a retired Irish judge who served as a judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland from 2005 to 2012, Judge of the High Court from 1998 to 1999 and between 2004 to 2005 and Judge of the European Court of Justice from 1999 to 2004. She succeeded John L. Murray, Chief Justice since July 2004, as Ireland's appointee on the European Court of Justice (ECJ) from 5 October 1999 to 22 September 2004. Appointed initially for a five-year term, she was the first female appointee to the

neg: Humchadakatte G. Ramesh Humchadakatte G. Ramesh Justice Humchadakatte Gopalaiah Ramesh (born 16 January 1957) is an Indian jurist. He served as the acting Chief Justice at the High Court of Karnataka between October 2017 and February 2018. Justice Ramesh enrolled as an advocate in 1982 and began his practice at Karnataka High Court. He was appointed an Additional Judge of the Court in May 2003 and elevated as a Permanent Judge in September 2004. In February 2017, he turned down the Supreme Court collegium's offer to be made the Chief Justice of Madras High Court. "The Economic Times" reported in March 2017 that

neg: Laeticia Kikonyogo serve in that capacity. Later, when she as appointed to the Uganda Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court, she was the first woman to serve in that capacity. Later, she served as the first woman Deputy Chief Justice of Uganda. Laeticia Kikonyogo Laetitia Eulalia Mary Mukasa Kikonyogo (2 September 1940 – 23 November 2017), was a Ugandan lawyer and judge. Prior to her retirement from the bench, she was a member of the Court of Appeal of Uganda, which also doubles as Uganda's Constitutional Court. While there, she served at the rank of Deputy Chief Justice of Uganda. Her first

neg: Mohammad Hidayatullah Berar (now Madhya Pradesh) and continued to hold the said post till he was appointed as an Additional Judge of that High Court in 1946. He had the distinction of being the youngest Advocate General of an Indian state, Madhya Pradesh On 24 June 1946, Hidayatullah was appointed as Additional Judge of that High Court of Central Provinces and Berar and on 13 September 1946 he was appointed as permanent judge of said High Court where he served until being elevated to Chief Justice of the Nagpur High Court in 1954 on 3 December 1954, being the youngest Chief Justice

neg: Girish Chandra Gupta Girish Chandra Gupta Girish Chandra Gupta (born: 1 December 1954) was an Indian judge and the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court. Gupta passed LL.B. and enrolled as an advocate on 20 September 1982. He practiced in the Calcutta High Court for 17 years in Civil, Constitutional, Company, Arbitration and Commercial matters. He was appointed as a permanent Judge of the Calcutta High Court on 15 September 2000. Gupta has been officiating as acting chief justice for Calcutta High Court since Chief Justice Manjula Chellur was transferred to Bombay High Court. Finally he became the Chief Justice of the same

neg: Nagendra Kumar Jain appointed as Judge of Rajasthan High court. He became a Judge of Rajasthan High Court on 20 July 1990. He spent around six years at Jodhpur and about 16 months at Jaipur bench as a Judge. He was transferred to Madras High Court on 18 November 1997. He officiated as Chief Justice on 22 January 1999 till May 1999, 28 September to 9 October 1999 then 6 June till become permanent Chief Justice in Madras High Court on 13 September 2000. There after he was transferred as Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court on 31 August 2001 and superannuated on

neg: Charles Arthur Turner Charles Arthur Turner Sir Charles Arthur Turner, K.C.I.E (6 March 1833 – 20 October 1907) was a British jurist, Chief Justice of Madras High Court. He was the first barrister judge appointed directly to the Allahabad High Court from England. Turner was born to Reverend John Fisher Turner at Exeter, England. After completion of study at Exeter Grammar School and at Exeter College Oxford, he was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1858. He was appointed as puisne Judge in Allahabad High Court in 1866 and served there for twelve years. In 1879 he became the Chief Justice

neg: Arijit Pasayat Chartered Accountancy Examination. He was appointed as an additional judge in the Orissa High Court on 20 March 1989. Later, he was appointed as the chief justice of the Kerala High Court on 20 September 1999. He was subsequently transferred and appointed as the chief justice of Delhi High Court on 10 May 2000. Justice Pasayat was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court of India on 20 October 2001, and retired on 10 May 2009. Among the most notable of his decisions, he was the part of a constitutional bench of the Supreme Court which decided upon the

neg: Sanjay Kumar Seth of The Madhya Pradesh High Court after Justice Hemant Gupta. Justice Seth was appointed as the permanent Chief Justice of the same High Court on 14 November 2018. Sanjay Kumar Seth Sanjay Kumar Seth (born: 10 June 1957) is an Indian Judge and present Chief justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court. After passing B.A., LL.B., Seth was enrolled as an Advocate on 24 July 1981 and practised in Jabalpur on Civil and Constitutional matters. He served as an additional advocate general in the Madhya Pradesh High Court for the Government of Madhya Paradesh. Seth was appointed as a judge to

neg: Anandamoy Bhattacharjee Calcutta High Court in January 1957. He practiced civil and criminal in the district courts of Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri (in West Bengal) and at Gangtok (in Sikkim). He had also worked as legal adviser to the Government of Sikkim from May 1972. He was appointed as a judge in the Sikkim High Court in June 1976, and was appointed as acting chief justice there in January 1985. He was transferred as judge to the Calcutta High Court in February 1986, and was the acting chief justice there from June 1992. He was made the chief justice of the Calcutta High

neg: High Court (Hong Kong) consisting of a three- or two-member bench. All Judges of the Court of First Instance also serve as members of the Competition Tribunal. The President and Deputy President of the Competition Tribunal (currently Mr Justice Lam and Madam Justice Au-Yeung respectively) are appointed by the Chief Executive on the recommendation of the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission. The President of the Lands Tribunal must be a High Court Judge (currently Mr Justice Louis Chan) and is appointed by the Chief Executive. High Court Judges also serve a number of other public service roles. It is a statutory requirement that the Electoral

neg: High Court (Ireland) additional judges being "ex officio" the Chief Justice, the President of the Court of Appeal, the President of the Circuit Court, and former chief justices and courts presidents who remain judges. Cases are normally heard by one judge, but the President of the High Court may order that a particular case be heard by three judges sitting together — a so-called 'divisional court'. The court normally hears cases in the Four Courts building in Dublin, although it also has regular sittings outside the capital. Mella Carroll was the first woman to serve on the court and did so between 1980

neg: Government of Telangana in operation, the said period will be extended by Parliament by Laws for a period not exceeding one year at a time is waste government — The High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad is the apex court for the state. It is a court of record and has all the powers of such a court including the authority to punish an individual for contempt of court. Like all other High Courts of India, this court also consists of a Chief Justice and other judges who are appointed by the President of India. Every judge including the Chief Justice is appointed

neg: Dipak Misra Dipak Misra Justice Dipak Misra (born 3 October 1953) is an Indian jurist who served as the 45th Chief Justice of India from 28 August 2017 till 2 October 2018. He is also a former Chief Justice of the Patna and Delhi High Courts. He is the nephew of Justice Ranganath Misra, who was the 21st Chief Justice from 1990 to 1991. He succeeded J. S. Khehar, the 44th Chief Justice. Misra enrolled at the Bar on 14 February 1977 and practiced at the Orissa High Court and the Service Tribunal. He was first appointed as an Additional Judge of

neg: Amreshwar Pratap Sahi Amreshwar Pratap Sahi Amreshwar Pratap Sahi (born 1 January 1959) is an Indian judge and Chief Justice of the Patna High Court. Sahir graduated in law in 1985, and enrolled as an advocate of the Allahabad high court on September 6, 1985, where he practiced civil and constitutional matters. He became an additional judge of the Allahabad high court on September 24, 2004 and was confirmed as permanent judge in August 18, 2005. On 23 October, he was appointed as senior most judge of Allahabad High Court. On 10 November 2018, he was appointed as chief justice of Patna High

neg: Geoffrey Ma Recorder of the Court of First Instance of the High Court in December 2000. In December 2001, Ma became a Judge of the Court of First Instance of the High Court. In 2002, Ma was elevated to the position of Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of the High Court. In July 2003, he was appointed as Chief Judge of the High Court of Hong Kong. Ma was also a member of the Working Party on Civil Justice Reform, which came into effect in April 2009 and is aimed at lowering legal costs and improving assess to justice.

neg: Ajay Rastogi Ajay Rastogi Ajay Rostogi is Judge of Supreme Court of India since 2 November 2018. He was the Chief Justice of the of the Tripura High Court Shri Justice Ajay Rastogi, B.Com., LL.B., was born on 18 June 1958. He was enrolled as an Advocate in 1982 and practiced in the Rajasthan High Court in Constitutional, Civil Service and Labour matters. His field of specialization is Service and Labour Law. He was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Rajasthan High Court on 2 September 2004 and as Permanent Judge on 29 May 2006. He was appointed as Chief Justice

neg: Mohan Shantanagoudar Kerala High Court on 1 August 2016. He took the oath as Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court on 22 September 2016. Mohan Shantanagoudar Mohan Mallikarjunagouda Shantanagoudar (born 5 May 1958 in Chikkerur, Haveri District, Karnataka) is an Indian Judge. He was appointed as a Judge of the Supreme court of India on 17 February 2017. He has also served as the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court before his elevation to the Supreme Court of India. He initially practiced at the Karnataka High Court as an advocate, later appointed as the Additional Judge in 2003, and elevated

neg: Barin Ghosh (judge) Barin Ghosh (judge) Barin Ghosh (5 June 1952 — 7 October 2015) was an Indian Judge and former Chief Justice of Three High Courts of India. Ghosh was born in 1952. After passing B.Com., LL.B. he was enrolled as an Advocate on 19 December 1978 and practiced in the Calcutta High Court. He worked on Civil, Company and Constitutional matters. On 14 July 1995 he was appointed as a Permanent Judge of the Calcutta High Court. Justice Ghosh was transferred to Patna High Court on 7 January 2005. He became the Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court on

neg: Alma Wilson "Justice Served: The Life of Alma Bell Wilson", the biography of Wilson's life. Alma Wilson Alma Wilson (1917-1999) was an Oklahoma attorney who was appointed as the second female district judge in the state of Oklahoma in 1975. In 1982, she was elevated as the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court of Oklahoma and between 1995 and 1997 was the first woman Chief Justice. Wilson was honored by many awards in her lifetime including induction into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and named Appellate Judge of the Year in both 1986 and

neg: M. Jagannadha Rao Additional Judge of High Court of Andhra Pradesh on 29 September 1982 and as Permanent Judge on 29 November 1982. He was appointed as Chief Justice of Kerala High Court in August 1991, as Chief Justice of Delhi High Court on March 1994 and as Judge of Supreme Court of India on 23 March 1997. He has retired as Judge of Supreme Court of India on 2 December 2000. His son Justice M. S. Ramachandra Rao is currently a Judge of the Andhra Pradesh High Court He was Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the Sixteenth Law Commission of India from 2001