<Tr> <Th> Alma mater </Th> <Td> London </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Occupation </Th> <Td> Judge </Td> </Tr> <P> Leila Seth (20 October 1930--5 May 2017) was the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and she became the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court on 5 August 1991 . She sat on a number of enquiry commissions, including one into the death of' Biscuit Baron' Rajan Pillai, and was also a part of the three - member bench of the Justice Verma Committee that was established to overhaul India's rape laws in the aftermath of the infamous 2012 Delhi gang - rape case . She was a member of the 15th Law Commission of India from 1997 to 2000, and was responsible for the amendments to the Hindu Succession Act that gave equal rights to daughters in joint family property . </P> <P> Leila Seth was born on 20 October 1930 in Lucknow, the first daughter after two sons in her family . She is said to have been very close to her father, who worked in the Imperial Railway Service and was devastated when he died when she was only 11 years old . </P>

First woman chief justice of a high court in india