Summary:
But we have never had a woman Chief Justice. “Justice Sunanda Bhandare was probably the candidate for becoming the first woman Chief Justice of India. “In any event I hope given the present dispensation the time for the first woman CJI won't be very far off” Justice Nariman said. Since Independence there have been only eight women judges appointed to the Supreme Court out of a total 247 judges appointed between1950 and 2020. Currently Justice Indira Banerjee is the lone woman judge in the Supreme Court which has a sanctioned strength of 34 judges..