Anna Chandy - Wikipedia Anna Chandy Anna Chandy Justice Anna Chandy Anna ( 1905 - 05 - 04 ) 4 May 1905 Trivandrum, Travancore 20 July 1996 ( 1996 - 07 - 20 ) ( aged 91 ) Kerala, India Nationality Indian Occupation Judge Employer Kerala High Court Known for First woman Judge of India Title Hon. Justice Term 9 February 1959 to 5 April 1967 Justice Anna Chandy ( 1905 - 1996 ), also known as Anna Chandi, was the first female judge in India and also the first woman in India to become a high court judge. In fact, she was the first woman judge in the Anglo - Saxon world, decades before Elizabeth Lane. Life Anna Chandy was born in 1905 and raised in Trivandrum. She was a Syrian Christian. After obtaining a post-graduate degree in 1926, she then became the first woman in her state to get a law degree. She practised as a barrister from 1929 while simultaneously promoting the cause of women 's rights, most notably in Shrimati, a magazine that she both founded and edited. Often described as a `` first generation feminist '', Chandy campaigned for election to the Shree Mulam Popular Assembly in 1931. She met with hostility from both her competition and newspapers but was elected for the period 1932 - 34. Chandy was appointed as a munsif in Travancore by Sir C.P. Ramaswami Iyer, the Dewan of Travancore, in 1937. This made her the first female judge in India and, in 1948, she was raised to the position of District Judge. She became the first female judge in an Indian high court when she was appointed to the Kerala High Court on 9 February 1959. She remained in that office until 5 April 1967. In her retirement, Chandy served on the Law Commission of India and also wrote an autobiography titled Atmakatha ( 1973 ). She died in 1996. See also First women lawyers around the world References Jump up ^ `` ' Manu and the ' muse ' ''. The Telegraph India. 4 June 2016. ^ Jump up to : Devika J. ( 2005 ). Herself. Popular Prakashan. p. xxiv. Jump up ^ Raman, K. Ravi, ed. ( 2010 ). Development, Democracy and the State : Critiquing the Kerala Model of Development. Routledge. p. 179. ISBN 9781135150068. Jump up ^ Mukhopadhyay, Swapna, ed. ( 2007 ). The Enigma of the Kerala Woman : A Failed Promise of Literacy. Berghahn Books. p. 113. ISBN 9788187358268. Jump up ^ `` First to appoint a lady advocate -- Mrs. Anna Chandy -- as District Judge ''. Archived from the original on 5 July 2008. Retrieved 2008 - 05 - 27. Jump up ^ `` Former Judges of High Court of Kerala ''. Retrieved 2008 - 05 - 27. ( ( 1. http://keralawomen.gov.in/view_page.php?type=11&id=262 ) ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Anna_Chandy&oldid=841316375 '' Categories : Scholars from Thiruvananthapuram Saint Thomas Christians Malayali people Indian women judges 20th - century Indian women 1905 births 1996 deaths Indian feminists Judges of the Kerala High Court Women in Kerala politics Women of the Kingdom of Travancore People of the Kingdom of Travancore 20th - century Indian lawyers Indian women lawyers Indian barristers 20th - century Indian judges Former judges of Indian High Courts High Court of Kerala former judges Women educators from Kerala Educators from Kerala Hidden categories : Use Indian English from October 2015 All Wikipedia articles written in Indian English Use dmy dates from October 2015 Pages using infobox person with unknown parameters Infobox person using religion Articles with hCards All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from May 2018 Talk About Wikipedia Français हिन्दी עברית മലയാളം ଓଡ଼ିଆ Português संस्कृतम् தமிழ் తెలుగు 3 more Edit links This page was last edited on 15 May 2018, at 02 : 51. About Wikipedia

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