B. V. Nagarathna is an Indian lawyer who was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of India on 26 August 2021. Previously, she served as the judge of the Karnataka High Court, where she delivered a number of significant judgments relating to commercial and constitutional law.Born to the 19th Chief Justice of India, E.S. Venkataramiah, Nagarathna was inclined towards pursuing a career in law since childhood.While growing up in Bengaluru, Nagarathna frequently visited her paternal family home in Engalaguppe Chatra in Mandya district to enjoy village life. B. V. Nagarathnas house in Engalaguppe village, Pandavapura taluk of Mandya district.After studying law at the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, she decided to return to Bengaluru; meanwhile, her father was serving as the Chief Justice of India in Delhi.B. V. Nagarathna enrolled as an advocate with the Bar Council of Karnataka on 28 October 1987 at Bangalore (now Bengaluru) in Karnataka. In the same year, she started her practice at KESVY and Co. under Barrister Vasudev Reddy and Senior Advocate G.V. Shantharaju.During her tenure as an independent practising lawyer, from 1994 to 2008, she practised in a wide variety of areas such as arbitration, land acquisition, service law, family law, administrative law, constitutional law, commercial law, etc.Nagarathna has also served as an Amicus (an impartial adviser to a court of law) for the lakes rejuvenation in Bangalore.On 18 February 2008, she was appointed as an additional judge of the High Court of Karnataka. On 17 February 2010, she was designated as a permanent judge of the High Court of Karnataka.In 2012, noting the rise of false news, Nagarathna, along with another judge, directed the Union government to consider the regulation of broadcast media in India. She rooted for establishing a statutory framework that would allow self-regulation by the broadcast industry.In 2016, a division bench comprising of Justice B.V. Nagarathna dismissed the appeal filed by the Karnataka government, questioning the verdict of striking down the Motor Vehicles Taxation (Amendment) Act introduced in 2014. The High Court of Karnataka ruled that the state government could not require owners of vehicles bought outside the state to pay a lifetime tax to use their vehicles in Karnataka, citing the states law was violative of Article 246(3) of the Constitution. Article 246(3) confers Parliament with the power to amend the period mentioned in the MV Act and not the State legislature.