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First Woman Session Judge In India

                                                                       Justice Anna Chandy was the first woman Judge of India. She became the first woman judge in India in a district court in 1937. She was the first woman in India, and probably the second in the world to reach a high court judgeship (1959). She was born on May 4, 1905 in erstwhile Travancore state , now in Kerala state of India. She was admitted to the bar in 1928 and was appointed as a district judge (musif) in Travancore by Sir C.P. Ramaswami Iyer , the then Dewan of Travancore . She was the Judge of Kerala High Court from 9 February 1959 to April 5, 1967 . This rais...