New Delhi, 30th July 2022: Ranjana Prakash Desai, a retired Supreme Court judge became the first woman chairperson of the Press Council of India (PCI). She has also led the Delimitation Commission on Jammu and Kashmir and now is all set to redraw Assembly constituencies.
Justice (retd) Desai (72) has also chaired the five-member committee the Uttarakhand Government comprised to recruit the uniform civil code.
Desai graduated from Elphinstone College in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts and in 1973, with a Bachelor of Law from Government Law College, Mumbai.
On April 15, 1996, Justice (retd) Desai was promoted to the Bench of the Bombay High Court and as judge of the Supreme Court on September 13, 2011. Later, on October 29, 2014, she retired from the apex court.