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Azmiralda Zahir

Modern Constitutional and Supreme Court Judges of Asia and Oceania

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Azmiralda Zahir, born in 1979, is a Maldivian lawyer and jurist who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Maldives from 2019 to 2025. She studied law in the United Kingdom and began practicing in the Maldives in 1999, was appointed to the High Court of the Maldives in 2011, and by her resignation from that court in 2016 was described as the country's most senior female judge. In November 2019 she briefly served as the Maldives' first female Chief Justice, temporarily filling the vacancy left by the retirement of Abdulla Areef, around the time of her appointment to the Supreme Court.

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