Three judges including two women elevated to Federal Court

Three Court of Appeal judges including two women were elevated to the Federal Court.

The judges are Mary Lim Thiam Suan, 62, Rhodzariah Bujang, 58, and Harmindar Singh Dhaliwal, 61.

They took their oath of office and allegiance before Chief Justice Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat.

Following the elevation of the two female judges, eight of the 14 Federal Court judges are women, the highest number of women judges in the Federal Court in the history of the judiciary.

Besides Tengku Maimun and Court of Appeal president Rohana Yusuf, the other female judges in the Federal Court are Nallini Pathmanathan, Zaleha Yusuf, Zabariah Mohd Yusof and Hasnah Mohammed Hashim.

The male judges currently in the Federal Court are Chief Judge of Malaya Azahar Mohamed, Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Abang Iskandar Abang Hashim, Mohd Zawawi Salleh, Vernon Ong Lam Kiat and Abdul Rahman Sebli.

Meanwhile, eight High Court judges were promoted to the Court of Appeal.

They are Mohd Soffian Abdul Razak, 64, Supang Lian, 59, Lee Heng Cheong, 63, Ahmad Nasfy Yasin, 63, Che Mohd Ruzima Ghazali, 59, M Gunalan, 62, Nordin Hassan, 56, and Daryl Goon Siew Chye, 64.

They took their oath of office and allegiance before the Court of Appeal president.

At the oath-taking ceremony, former head of the civil division in the Attorney-General's Chambers, Alice Loke Yee Ching were among eleven judicial commissioners who received their appointment letters from the Chief Justice.

The other judicial commissioners are Zaleha Rose Pandi, 59, Azhar Hamid, 56, Arik Sanusi Yeop Johari, 50, Amirudin Abd Rahman, 58, Mahazan Mat Taib, 52, Bhupindar Singh Gurcharan Singh Preet, 56, Ahmad Murad Abdul Aziz, 61, Liza Chan Sow Keng, 62, Wan Muhamad Amin Wan Yahya, 48, and Alexander Siew How Wai, 54.

Zaleha and Siew took their oath of office and allegiance as judicial commissioners before the Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak, while the rest took their oath before the Chief Judge of Malaya.

- Bernama