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Krishna Debnath

Modern Constitutional and Supreme Court Judges of Asia and Oceania

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Krishna Debnath, born October 10, 1955, is a retired Bangladeshi judge who served on the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh from April 18, 2010, to October 9, 2022, as the country's first Hindu woman judge. She earned her law degrees from the University of Rajshahi and joined the judiciary as a Munsef on December 7, 1981, rising through the ranks as a district and sessions judge in 1996 and an additional judge of the High Court Division in 2010 before her permanent High Court appointment in 2012, concluding a 41-year judicial career on her retirement.

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