Q. Who is the first female judge in India ?
Solution:
- Justice Anna Chandy was the first female judge in India and the first woman in India to become a High Court Judge.
- She became a judge in 1937 and one of the first female judges in the British Empire next to Emily Murphy.
- After obtaining a post-graduate degree in 1926, she then became the first woman in her state to get a law degree.
- First female Supreme Court Judge- Fathima Beevi (1989).
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