[3] Abdul Nazeer was born into an Urdu-speaking Muslim family belonging to the Dakshina Kannada district of coastal Karnataka.

[5] While serving on the Supreme Court, Nazeer was the lone Muslim judge in a multi-faith bench which heard the controversial Triple Talaq case in 2017.

[6][7] Though Nazeer and one other judge upheld the validity of the practise of Triple Talaq (Talaq-e-Biddat) based on the fact that it is permissible under Muslim Sharia Law, it was barred by the bench by 3–2 majority and asked the Central government to bring legislation in six months to govern marriage and divorce in the Muslim community.

[12] In the months leading up to his retirement, Nazeer led a constitution bench that heard cases about the 2016 Indian banknote demonetisation carried out by the Government of India.

[14] On 12 February 2023, the President of India appointed Nazeer as the 24th governor of Andhra Pradesh, succeeding Biswabhusan Harichandan.