● Leila Seth was the first woman Chief Justice of a state high court in India . ●She became the Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court in 1991. ●She was also the first woman Judge of the Delhi High Court. She was also a part of the 3 member bench of Justice Verma committee that was set up to overhaul India’s rape laws after infamous Nirbhaya rape case of Delhi in 2012. NOTE: There has not been a single woman Chief Justice Of India till date.
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Famous for
Fatima Beevi
● First female judge of the Supreme Court
● First Muslim woman to be appointed to any higher judiciary
Indu Malhotra
●First woman judge to be appointed to the SC directly from the bar in 2018
●Second woman to be designated as senior advocate by the Supreme Court in 2007
● Currently a Judge of Supreme Court
Ruma Pal
●SC Judge till her retirement in 2006
● Extra:-Vikram seth, a famous Indian novelist and poet, who recently wrote"A suitable boy" is the son of Leila Seth