Supreme Court<\/a> judge was Justice Fathima Beevi, appointed in 1989 – a full 39 years after the Supreme Court came into existence. She was also the first the first Muslim woman to have made it to India\u2019s higher judiciary. The other women judges of the Supreme Court have been Justice Sujatha Manohar, Justice Ruma Pal, Justice Gyan Sudha Misra,\u00a0 Justice Ranjana Desai and Justice Banumati.<\/p>\n61-year-old Malhotra’s name name was approved by the collegium on January 10, along with that of Uttarakhand high court Chief Justice K M Joseph. \u00a0The Centre cleared Malhotra’s name but has sought reconsideration of the proposal for the latter.<\/p>\n
Malhotra joined the legal profession in 1983 and was enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi. She qualified as an Advocate-on-Record in the Supreme Court in 1988.<\/p>\n
She was designated senior advocate by the top court in 2007 and became the second woman to be designated as such by the apex court after a gap of over 30 years.<\/p>\n
Malhotra was born in Bangalore and after her schooling from Carmel Convent School in New Delhi, she did her BA (Hons) in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College. She obtained her law degree from the Faculty of Law in Delhi University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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