Venkita Subramani Mohana Joins Supreme Court Bench

By: Women Entrepreneurs Review Team | Tuesday, 2 June 2026

By appointing Senior Advocate Venkita Subramani Mohana as a judge of the Supreme Court, the court got a woman judge again after a gap of more than five years. Until the appointment of Justice Venkita, Justice B.V. Nagarathna was the only woman judge of the Supreme Court.

On June 2^nd 2026, Venkita has been nominated by Indian jurist Surya Kant who has served as the 53rd Chief Justice of India since November 2025, and appointed by president of India, Droupadi Murmu.

The Supreme Court Collegium, led by Chief Justice of India Justice Surya Kant, on May 27 recommended for the elevation of four High Court Chief Justices and senior advocate V. Mohana as judges of the apex court. The Central Government approved the recommendations on May 31, and the five judges were sworn-in later.

She is also the first lady to be elevated to the Supreme Court since August 2021, when justices Hima Kohli, B.V. Nagarathna, and Bela Trivedi joined the Supreme Court together. She would have been only the second female lawyer to join the bench after being elevated from the Bar, after Justice Indu Malhotra who served as an Indian judge of the Supreme Court.

Key Highlights:

• Supreme Court judge V. Mohana was appointed to become the second woman serving on the Supreme Court Bench.
• The new Supreme Court judge is the first woman elevated to the top court since 2021 and just the second woman to be appointed from the Bar.
• The five judges have been sworn in, bringing the strength of the Supreme Court to 37 compared to a sanctioned strength of 38 judges.

The highest number of women judges in the history of the Supreme Court was 4, who consisted of Justices Indira Banerjee, retired Indian jurist; Hima Kohli, served from 2021 to 2024; B.V. Nagarathna, served since 2021; and Bela Trivedi, who also served as the law secretary to Modi Government in Gujarat, at the same time until Justice Indira Banerjee’s retirement in September 2022. Justice Hima Kohli and Justice Bela M. Trivedi retired in September 2024 and May 2025, respectively.

Venkita Justice was the first-generation advocate, who practiced from 1988 onwards in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. She moved to Delhi in 1992, and became part of the chambers of Indu Malhotra, who later got promoted to the Supreme Court. She has also worked with the chambers of CS Vaidyanathan- a Senior Advocate.

In 1996, she was appointed as Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record and practiced in the Supreme Court of India, Delhi High Court, and several Tribunals in the national capital. She was appointed as a Senior Advocate in the year 2015. She practiced in fields such as constitutional law, civil and criminal laws as well as she appeared as an Amicus Curiae in many famous cases. Some other judges, whose names have been recommended by the centre for their promotion to the supreme court are: Justices Sheel Nagu, Shree Chandrashekhar, Sanjeev Sachdeva, and Arun Palli. There is currently a total number of 37 Supreme Court judges against the sanctioned strength of 38.