<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Personal details </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> </Th> <Td> (1927 - 04 - 30) 30 April 1927 (age 91) Pathanamthitta, Travancore, (now Kerala, India) </Td> </Tr> <P> M. Fathima Beevi (born 30 April 1927) is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India . Appointed to the tribunal in 1989, she became the first female judge to be a part of the Supreme court of India, and the first Muslim woman to be appointed to any of the higher judiciaries in country . On her retirement from the court, she served as a member of the National Human Rights Commission and later as the Governor of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu from 1997 to 2001 . </P> <P> Fathima Beevi was born on 30 April 1927 at Pathanamthitta, Travancore, now in the Indian State of Kerala, as the daughter of Annaveetil Meera Sahib and Khadeja Bibi . </P>

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