Women chief justices

Greek judge, former president of the Hellenic Republic

Sushila Karki is a Nepalese lawyer and stateswoman who served as Chief Justice of Nepal from 2016 to 2017 and as interim prime minister of Nepal from 2025 to 2026. She became prime minister following the Gen Z-led protests of September 2025 that led to her predecessor’s resignation. Karki is the first woman in Nepal’s history to serve both as prime minister and as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Nepal.

Greek judge, former caretaker Prime Minister of Greece

independence activist and writer, Journalist, Communism activist, feminist, sex positive activists (1902-1991)

president of Haiti

Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel

Ghanaian judge and politician

Guatemalan judge

Indian judge

Ethiopian activist and judge

Chief Justice of Israel (1947–2022)

New Zealand judge, and 12th Chief Justice of New Zealand

British judge (born 1945)

Brazilian judge (1954)

Ghanaian judge and Chief Justice

Indian judge

De facto Chief Justice of the Philippines from 2012 to 2018

Polish law professor

17th Chief Justice of Canada

Polish judge

Cameroonian judge

Israeli judge

Brazilian judge

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway

Chief Justice of The Turks and Caicos Islands

Eritrean judge

chief Justice of Malaysia

Danish judge (1911-1980)

politician in Lesotho

Chief Justice of Kenya

former Chief Justice of Sri Lanka

Zambian politician

Chief Justice of the Philippines in 2018

Sudanese judge

Venezuelan judge

Polish judge, professor

Central African lawyer, professor and jurist

Cape Verdean lawyer and jurist

Nigerian jurist

judge of the Supreme Court of Russia

7th Chief Justice of Zambia (1952–2021)

Nigerien politician

Liberian politician

Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court and first female Chief Justice of any court in Pakistan

Australian judge

Beninese politician

Azerbaijani magistrate, first female President of the Supreme Court and Minister of Justice

Liberian lawyer

Australian judge; Chief Justice of Australia

Costa Rican judge

Seychellois lawyer and academic

Ukrainian lawyer and judge

Malaysian lawyer and judge