Robakhon Makhmudova

Robakhon Anvarovna Makhmudova was born in 1958 in the Fergana Region. She graduated from the law faculty of Tashkent State University in 1983 and began work in 1976 as a secretary at the Fergana regional court.

She worked in the judiciary: she chaired the criminal court of the Fergana Region and was a judge of the Supreme Court until 29 August 2008. From 2017 to 2020 she headed the President's People's Reception Office in the Fergana Region.

In January 2020 she was elected a senator of the Oliy Majlis and chair of the Senate Committee on Science, Education and Health. On 13 July 2020 the Senate elected her first deputy chair of the Supreme Court and chair of its judicial panel for administrative cases. On 6 March 2020 she received the Order «Fidokorona xizmatlari uchun».

On 12 May 2023 the Adolat party nominated her for president, and her judicial powers were suspended for the duration. In the 9 July 2023 election she received 4.43 percent of the vote according to the Central Election Commission's official results and came second (Shavkat Mirziyoyev 87.05 percent). In January 2024 she was elected chair of the Adolat party, which she led until her election to the Supreme Court.

On 18 June 2026 the Senate of the Oliy Majlis elected her chair of the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan for five years, and as a judge for an indefinite term. She succeeded Bakhtiyor Islamov; media report that she is the first woman to head the court. On 22 June she was introduced to the judicial community by Saida Mirziyoyeva, head of the Presidential Administration.