First female judge presides over hearing at top court in Egypt

[Still Waters]

Radwa Helmi has made history as the first female judge to sit on the bench of Egypt’s state council, a top court in the Arab country.

Helmi, making her appearance in a Cairo courthouse, was among 98 women appointed last year to join the council, one of Egypt’s main judicial bodies, after a decision by the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

“The fifth of March has become a new historical day for Egyptian women,” said the head of the National Council for Women (NCW), Maya Morsi.

The move came shortly before the 8 March International Women’s Day.

Egypt has hundreds of female lawyers, but it took decades for one to move up the judicial ladder and become a judge.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/05/first-female-judge-presides-over-hearing-at-top-court-in-egypt