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Stories of Courage #11: Fathima Beevi

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Fathima Beevi was born in Pathanamthitta, Travancore, (Now Kerala) in 1927.  She is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India, having been appointed to the Court in 1989. She was the first female judge to be a part of the Supreme Court and first Muslim woman to be appointed to a higher judiciary in India. Later, she served as Governor of Tamil Nadu and on the National Human Rights Commission. Fathima Beevi studied law at Trivandrum Law College and was one of only five women in her class in the first year. Unfortunately, even that number dwindled by the second year. She was the first woman to top the Bar Council of India’s examination. 

In recent interviews she acknowledges that women are not equally represented in the legal profession and that there is a need to elevate their position.

Sources

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathima_Beevi
  2. https://www.thebetterindia.com/127700/fathima-beevi-kerala-indias-first-female-supreme-court-judge/ 
  3. https://www.huffingtonpost.in/2017/05/02/fathima-beevi-indias-first-female-supreme-court-judge-just-tu_a_22064840/ 

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