page_title: List of first women lawyers and judges in Asia
section_title: India
hierarchical_section_title: List of first women lawyers and judges in Asia / India
caption_attribution_description: English: Anna Chandy
context_page_description: This is a list of the first women lawyer and judge in Asia. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law. Also included are the first women in their country to achieve a certain distinction such as obtaining a law degree.
context_section_description: Cornelia Sorabji (1923): First female graduate from Bombay University, first woman to study law at Oxford University, first female advocate in India, and the first woman to practice law in India and Britain
  Mithan Jamshed Lam (1923): First Indian woman barrister and the first Indian woman lawyer at the Bombay High Court
  Omana Kunjamma: First female magistrate in India
  Anna Chandy (1926): First female judge in India (upon her appointment as a Judge of the High Court in India in 1937). She was also the first female judge in the Anglo-Saxon world, decades before Elizabeth Lane.
  Violet Alva: First female lawyer to appear before a High Court in India (1944) and preside over the Rajya Sabha (1952)
  Fathima Beevi (1950): First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of India (1989)
caption: Anna Chandy: First female judge in India (1937)
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