<Tr> <Th> Title </Th> <Td> Hon . Justice </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Term </Th> <Td> 9 February 1959 to 5 April 1967 </Td> </Tr> <P> Justice Anna Chandy (1905 - 1996), also known as Anna Chandi, was the first female judge in India and also the first woman in India to become a high court judge . In fact, she was the first woman judge in the entire Anglo - Saxon world, decades before Elizabeth Lane . </P> <P> Anna Chandy was born in 1905 and raised in Trivandrum . She was a Syrian Christian . After obtaining a post-graduate degree in 1926, she then became the first woman in her state to get a law degree . She practised as a barrister from 1929 while simultaneously promoting the cause of women's rights, most notably in Shrimati, a magazine that she both founded and edited . </P>

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