[1] Ramaswami began his career by practising both civil and criminal law at the Madras High Court.
At the height of his career, he was appointed Judge of the Supreme Court on 6 October 1989 from which he retired on 14 February 1994.
[1] A scandal surfaced in the middle of the year 1990 when several media outlets reported about his ostentatious expenditure on his official residence during his tenure as a Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana.
In a serious turn of events, on 1 February 1991, the Supreme Court Bar Association passed a resolution calling for his removal and requesting Chief justice not assign him any further legal work.
His youngest son Sanjay Ramaswami is a lawyer and former member of the legislative assembly in Tamil Nadu, representing the Congress party.