She also chaired as a member of the selection committee constituted for the appointment of civil judge (junior and senior division).
She was later appointed executive chairman of the Rajasthan State Legal Services Authority, which is a statutory body assigned with the duty of administering legal aid and assistance to the disadvantaged sections of society and also for taking effective and statutory steps for reduction of arrears in the state judiciary.
As chief justice of the Jharkhand High Court, while hearing PIL matters, Misra passed a large number of prominent and effective orders, which resulted in the initiation of a probe by the Enforcement Directorate against eminent persons involving significant financial implications.
Treating a letter from Tapasi Choudhary to be a PIL relating to the sensitive matter of the mysterious death of her daughter Mousami Choudhary, a trainee air hostess of AHA Airhostess Training Institute, Jamshedpur at Hotel Sonnet of Jamshedpur, Misra sitting in a division bench with justice D.K.
While working as a judge, Misra has demonstrated through her judgments and orders that she is a strong believer in the principle that social justice, which is one of the objectives of the Indian Constitution certainly helps us in bringing about a just society by removing imbalances in social, educational, economic and political life of the people and protecting the rights of the weak, aged, destitute, women, children and other under-privileged persons of the state against the ruthless treatment which is enshrined in the preamble to the constitution.