Nodira Hakimova
Uzbek lawyer and former judge; since July 2025 Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Uzbekistan in charge of judicial reform.
- Occupation:
- Politician
Biography
Nodira Jalolovna Hakimova is an Uzbek lawyer and civil servant. In July 2025, when the Presidential Administration was reorganised, she was appointed Deputy Head of the Administration for the reform of the judicial system.
She previously worked as a judge, first at the Zangiota inter-district court for civil cases in the Tashkent region and later at the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan. Before becoming a judge she spent more than ten years in various posts at the Tashkent regional justice department. In 2014, when the Zangiota court piloted the E-SUD electronic court system under a joint project of the UN Development Programme and the Supreme Court, she spoke as a judge of that court about its first results.
On 5 September 2025 the Senate released her from the post of Supreme Court judge. On 21 August 2025 she presented to President Shavkat Mirziyoyev a briefing on improving the judicial and legal system, after which two decrees on the judiciary were signed.
In public interviews she has discussed appointing judges for an unlimited term, an institute of judicial administration and compliance control in the courts. In March 2026 she commented on the presidential decree strengthening the rights of women and children, including the proposal to restrict strictly the grounds for lowering the marriage age.
Career
- Presidential Administration of UzbekistanDeputy Head of the Administration for the reform of the judicial system · Tashkent · 2025–present
- Supreme Court of UzbekistanSupreme Court judge · Tashkent · …–2025
Life path
- 2014Judge of the Zangiota inter-district civil court
Served as a judge while the court piloted the E-SUD electronic court system.
- 2025Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration
Appointed in July as Deputy Head of the Administration for the reform of the judicial system.
- 2025Briefing on the judicial and legal system
On 21 August presented to the President a briefing on improving the judicial and legal system; two decrees were signed.
- 2025Released as a Supreme Court judge
On 5 September the Senate released her from the post of Supreme Court judge.
- 2026Compliance control in the courts
In February, after a meeting chaired by the President, she spoke about introducing compliance control in the courts.
- 2026Decree on the rights of women and children
In March she commented on the presidential decree strengthening the rights of women and children.