The Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India N V Ramana is learnt to have recommended 9 names to the government on Tuesday for appointment as judges to the top court. The list has three women judges, including one who could become the first woman Chief Justice of India.

According to sources privy to the development, out of these 10 vacancies, the collegium has zeroed in on 9 names. There has been no appointment after September 2019.  The list of recommendations includes three women judges, including BV Nagarathna from the Karnataka High Court could become the country's first woman CJI in February 2027 and occupy the post until October 29, 2027, for 8 months.

Justice Nagarathna would succeed Justice Surya Kant as CJI in February 2027. Justice Nagarathna's father, Justice E.S. Venkataramiah, had been a CJI for a few months in 1989. Chief justice Ramana's predecessor chief justice S.A. Bobde did not make a single appointment during his 17 month tenure, as he couldn't build a consensus on several names, which stalled appointments in the top court.

According to reports, Other names finalised by the collegium are as follows: justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka, chief justice of Karnataka High Court; Vikram Nath, chief justice of Gujarat High Court; justice Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari, chief justice of Sikkim High Court; justice C.T. Ravikumar, judge in Kerala HC; and justice M M Sundresh, judge in Kerala High Court.

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