Fatima Beevi retired from the Supreme Court on 29 April 1992. After this, on 25 January 1997, she was appointed the Governor of Tamil Nadu. However, he left the post in 2001 after the central government recommended his recall to the President.
सुप्रीम कोर्ट की पहली महिला जज, पहली मुस्लिम महिला राज्यपाल फातिमा बीवी का 96 साल की उम्र में निधन
Fathima Beevi, the first woman judge of the Supreme Court of India, died at a private hospital in Kollam on Thursday. He breathed his last at the age of 96. Apart from being the first woman judge of the apex court, she was also the first chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission and the first Muslim woman Governor (Tamil Nadu).
Justice Fathima Beevi enrolled as an advocate in 1950 and started her career in the lower judiciary in Kerala. Biwi was appointed as Munsif in the Kerala Sub-ordinate Judicial Services in May 1958. He was promoted as Sub-ordinate Judge in 1968, then as Chief Judicial Magistrate in 1972 and then as District and Sessions Judge in 1974.
Fatima Beevi was appointed a judicial member of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal in January 1980 before being elevated as a judge in the High Court on August 4, 1983. After this, on May 14, 1984, Biwi became a permanent judge of the High Court. She retired as a High Court judge on April 29, 1989.
But after this, on October 6, 1989, Fatima Beevi was promoted to the Supreme Court as a judge, from where she retired on April 29, 1992. Fathima Beevi was later appointed Governor of Tamil Nadu on January 25, 1997, and left the post in 2001 following a decision of the Central Government recommending her recall to the President.
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