1951) - worked as a judge from 1979 to 2003. He held custodianship of the Husayn shrine after the US invasion of Iraq, until a secretary general was appointed by Ayatollah Sistani in 2003 as part of the constitutional transition of the shrines' management to the Shi'i Endowment Office[106]. He was appointed as Vice President of the Appeals Tribunal court in Babil in 2003, after which he became the President of the Appeals Tribunal court in Wasit in 2004.