List of first women lawyers and judges in Asia

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This is a list of the first women lawyers and judges in Asia. It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are the first women in their country to achieve a certain distinction such as obtaining a law degree.

Afghanistan[]

Maria Bashir: First female prosecutor in Afghanistan (1994)
  • Jameela Farooq Rooshna:[1] First female judge in Afghanistan (1969)
  • Maria Bashir (1994):[2] First female prosecutor in Afghanistan. She later became the first female Prosecutor General in Afghanistan (2009).
  • Kimberley Motley (2008):[3][4] First foreign female lawyer in Afghanistan
  • Anisa Rasooli:[5][6][7][8] First female to sit on the Supreme Court of Afghanistan (2018)

Firsts in a particular region in Afghanistan[]

Bamyan Province[]

Ghor Province[]

Kabul Province[]

  • Zohreh Ayoubi:[11] First female transitional lawyer in Kabul (2020)

Kandahar Province[]

  • Gul Makki Sultanzada:[12] First female lawyer in Kandahar

Nangarhar Province[]

Nimroz Province[]

Samangan Province[]

Bahrain[]

  • Fatima Ibrahim Al-Dalal:[17] First female to earn a law degree in Bahrain (1970)
  • Lulwa Al Awadhi and Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa (1979):[18] First female lawyers in Bahrain
  • Zahra Ahmed Khalaf:[17] First female lawyer to enter the Board of Directors of the Bahrain Bar Association (1981)
  • Sheikha Noura bint Abdullah Al Khalifa and Mona Jasem al-Kawari:[17] First two women appointed as Deputy Attorney Generals in Bahrain (2003)
  • Amal Ahmed Abul:[17] First female to serve as a public prosecutor in Bahrain (2003)
  • Mona Jasem al-Kawari:[19] First female judge in Bahrain (upon her appointment as a Judge of the High Civil Court of Bahrain in 2006)
  • Sheikha Noura bint Abdullah Al Khalifa:[20] First female to hold the position of Chief Prosecutor in Bahrain (2007)
  • Jamila Ali Salman:[17] First female to serve as the President of the Bahrain Bar Association (2007)
  • Amina Issa Abdullah:[20][21][22][23] First female in Bahrain to serve as a Public Prosecutor in the Juvenile Courts (2006), Chief Public Prosecutor with the rank of judge in the High Court (2009), and judicial inspector (2019)
  • Dhouha Ibrahim al-Zayani:[24][25][26][27] First female appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bahrain (2007-2016)
  • Fatima Faisal Hubail:[24][28] First female appointed as a Judge of the Lower Civil Court of Bahrain (2008) and a member of the Supreme Judicial Council of Bahrain (2013)

Firsts in a particular region in Bahrain[]

Southern Governorate[]

  • Sheikha Maryam bint Hassan Al Khalifa:[17] First female jurist to serve as the President of the University of Bahrain (2003-2007)

Bangladesh[]

Bhutan[]

Brunei[]

  • Hayati binti Mohammad Salleh (1980):[41][42][43][44] First Brunei Malay woman called to the English Bar. She later became the first female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Brunei (2001), as well as the first female Attorney General of Brunei (2009).

Cambodia[]

  • Kim Lun Khun, Thavry Neth and Thun Leapphy Muong (1995):[45] According to the registry of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia, they were the first female lawyers to register in October 1995.
  • Sum Nipha:[46] First female to serve as a member of the Constitutional Council of Cambodia (2004)
  • Kim Sothavy:[47][48] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Cambodia (c. 2005)
  • Dame Silvia Cartwright and Katinka Lahuis:[49][50][51] First females to serve as International Judges (Trial and Pre-Trial Chambers respectively) of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (2006)
  • Lok Chumteav Chea Leang:[52] First female to serve as the Attorney General of the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Cambodia (2009)
  • Florence Mumba:[53] First female to serve as an International Judge (Supreme Court Chamber) of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (2010)

Firsts in a particular region in Cambodia[]

Autonomous Municipality of Phnom Penh[]

  • Veasna Chea Leth:[54] First female to study law at the Royal University of Law and Economics

China[]

Tcheng Yu-hsui: First female lawyer and judge in China
  • Flora Rosenberg:[55][56] First female (a Frenchwoman) to practice law in China (c. 1921)
  • Tcheng Yu-hsiu (1926):[57][58][59] First female lawyer in China and Shanghai, China. She later became the first female judge in China.
  • Kathleen Hoahing (1927):[60][61][62] First female solicitor in China
  • Ma Yuan:[63][64] First female to serve as the Vice President of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China (1985)
  • Wei Qihong (c. 1990s):[65] First female lawyer of the Va nationality in China
  • Xue Hanqin:[66] First Chinese female appointed as a Judge of the International Court of Justice (2010)

Firsts in a particular region in China[]

Provinces[]

Hunan[]
Jiangsu[]

Zhejiang[]

Autonomous administrative division[]

Tibet Autonomous Region[]

East Timor (Timor Leste)[]

Maria Natércia Gusmão Pereira: First female judge in East Timor (2000)

Hong Kong (CHN)[]

Ellen Li: First female Justice of the Peace in Hong Kong (1948)

India[]

Anna Chandy: First female judge in India (1937)
  • Cornelia Sorabji (1923):[92] First female graduate from Bombay University, first woman to study law at Oxford University, first female advocate in India, and the first woman to practice law in India and Britain
  • Mithan Jamshed Lam (1923):[93][94] First Indian woman barrister and the first Indian woman lawyer at the Bombay High Court
  • Omana Kunjamma:[95][96] First female magistrate in India
  • Anna Chandy (1926):[97] First female judge in India (upon her appointment as a Judge of the High Court in India in 1937). She was also the first female judge in the Anglo-Saxon world, decades before Elizabeth Lane.[98]
  • Violet Alva:[99] First female lawyer to appear before a High Court in India (1944) and preside over the Rajya Sabha (1952)
  • Fathima Beevi (1950):[100] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of India (1989)
  • Leila Seth:[101][102] First female to become Chief Justice of a High Court in India (upon becoming the Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court in 1991). She was also the first female judge on the Delhi High Court (1978).
  • Indu Malhotra:[103][104] First female elevated by the Bar to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court of India (2018)

Firsts in a particular region in India[]

States[]

Assam[]
Bihar[]
Chhattisgarh[]
  • Vimala Singh Kapoor:[107][108] First female tribal judge appointed in the Chhattisgarh High Court, India (2018)
Goa, Maharashtra, and Kerala[]
  • Sujata Manohar:[109][110] First female appointed as a Judge of the Bombay High Court (1978) and its Chief Justice (1994). She was transferred to the Kerala High Court in 1994 and served as its first female Chief Justice.

Gujarat[]
Haryana and Punjab[]
  • Shiela Didi:[112] One of the first female lawyers in Chandigarh

Jharkhand State[]
Karnataka and West Bengal[]
Madhya Pradesh[]
Manipur[]
Odisha[]
  • Urmila Ray:[119] First female barrister in Odisha, India
Rajasthan[]
Sikkim[]
Tamil Nadu[]
Telangana[]
  • Jaya Rao:[124] First female lawyer in Warangal, India
  • Hima Kohli:[125] First female to serve as the Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court, India (2021)
Tripura[]
Uttar Pradesh[]
  • Darvesh Singh Yadav:[127] First female to serve as the President of the Uttar Pradesh Law Society (Bar Council), India

Union territories[]

Jammu and Kashmir[]
  • Fozia Nazeer (2009):[128][129][130] First locally educated female lawyer in Kashmir. An unknown woman became the Kashmir Bar's first female attorney in 1973.[131]
  • Sindhu Sharma:[132] First female appointed as Judge of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court (2018) [Former state constituting the larger region of Kashmir]
  • Kapur Renu:[133] First female lawyer in Srinagar, Kashmir
Ladakh[]
  • Zulikha Bano (2021):[134][135] First female lawyer from the Balti community in Ladakh

Indonesia[]

Maria Farida Indrati: First female Judge of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia (2008)
  • Anna Lange:[136] First female judge when Indonesia was known as the Netherland Indies (Dutch East Indies) (1921)
  • Julia Adolfs (1927):[137][138] First female lawyer when Indonesia was known as the Netherland Indies (Dutch East Indies)
  • Ani Abas Manoppo (1952):[139][140] First female lawyer in Indonesia
  • Thung Tjit Nio:[141][142] First female state judge in Indonesia (1955)
  • Mrs. Prayitno:[143][144][145] First female appointed as a Judge of the Religious Court in Indonesia through the decree of the Minister of Religion (1957)[146]
  • Sri Widoyati Wiratmo Soekito:[147][148][149] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indonesia (1968)
  • Marianna Sutadi:[150][151] First (female) Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indonesia (2004)
  • Maria Farida Indrati:[152] First female appointed as Judge of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia (2008)

Firsts in a particular region in Indonesia[]

Islands[]

Borneo[]
Java[]
  • Retnowulan Sutantio:[154] First female judge in Bandung, Indonesia [West Java, Indonesia]
  • Desiree Tan:[155] First Chinese Indonesian woman to graduate from what is presently known as the law school of the University of Indonesia [Depok, West Java, Indonesia and Central Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia]
  • Sunaryati Hartono (c. 1958):[156] First woman appointed as a Judge of the Country Country Court (Pengadilan Negeril Malang; 1956–1959) [East Java, Indonesia]

Iran[]

Mehrangiz Manouchehrian, first female lawyer in Iran (1958)
  • Khadijeh Keshavarz (1937), Katrina Saeed Khanian, and Mehrangiz Manouchehrian (1958):[157][158][159] First female lawyers respectively in Iran. Manouchehrian is considered the first woman to actually practice law in Iran.[160]
  • Shirin Ebadi:[161][162] First female judge in Iran (1969)
  • Mina Torabi:[163][164] First female to serve as a Deputy Prosecutor in Iran (upon becoming one for the Lorestan Province in 1983). She is also the first female judge in the Lorestan Province, Iran (c. 1993).

Firsts in a particular region in Iran[]

Isfahan Province[]

  • Leila Raisi:[165] First female lawyer to serve as the President of the Isfahan Bar Association

Iraq[]

Firsts in a particular region in Iraq[]

Autonomous region[]

  • Seyran Ebdulrehman:[170] First female lawyer to set up her own firm in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq (c. 2012)

Governorates[]

Basra Governorate[]

  • Soad Salman Daoud:[171] First female lawyer in Basra

Najaf Governorate[]

  • Nidal Nassar Hussein:[172][173] First female judge in the Iraqi Shi'ite city of Najaf

Israel[]

Rosa Ginossar: First female lawyer in Israel (1930)
  • Rosa Ginossar (Ginzburg) (1930):[174] First female lawyer in Israel
  • Eugenia Winogradov (1939):[175][176] First female judge in Israel (1948)
  • Miriam Ben-Porat (1945):[177] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel (1977)
  • Dorit Beinisch (1967):[178] First female justice to serve as the President of the Supreme Court of Israel (2006), as well as Israel's first female State Attorney (1989)
  • Hana Mansour-Khatib:[179][180] First female appointed as a Judge of the Shari'a Court in Israel (2017)
  • Havi Toker:[181] First ultra-Orthodox female judge in Israel (2018)
  • Sawsan Elkassem:[182] First Druze female judge in Israel (2018)

Firsts in a particular region in Israel[]

Haifa District[]

Southern District[]

Japan[]

Ai Kume: One of the first three female lawyers in Japan (1940)
  • Masako Nakata, Yoshiko Mibuchi, and Ai Kume (1940):[185][186] First female lawyers in Japan
  • Yoshiko Mibuchi (1940) and Mitsuko Ishiwatari (1945):[187][188][189][190][191] First female judges in Japan (1949). Mibuchi later became the first female to serve as a District Court Judge (1952) and a Chief Judge of the Family Court in Japan (1972).[192]
  • Chieko Monjo:[191] First female public prosecutor in Japan (1949)
  • Oshiro Mitsuyo and Noda Aiko:[191][193][194] First females to serve as Judges of the High Court in Japan (1974). Aiko later became the first female to serve as the Commissioner of a High Court in Japan (1987).
  • Mitsuko Terasawa:[195] First female judge to serve as the President of a District Court in Japan (1983)
  • Hisako Takahashi:[196][197][198] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan (1994–1997)
  • Sato Noriko:[199][200] First female to serve as a Chief Public Prosecutor in Japan (2001)
  • Junko Hayashi (2016):[201][202] First Japanese Muslim (female) lawyer in Japan

Firsts in a particular region in Japan[]

Islands[]

Hokkaido[]
  • Hirona Homma:[203] First female lawyer in Muroran, Japan [Hokkaido, Japan]
  • Fumiko Komon:[204] First Chairperson of the first Women's Bar Association in Hokkaido, Japan (2019)
Honshū[]
  • Takako Kinoshita:[205] First female lawyer in Tajimi, Japan [Chūbu Region, Japan]
  • Yoriko Nishimura:[206] First female lawyer to serve as the Chairperson of the Kanazawa Bar Association (2015) [Chūbu (Hokuriku) Region, Japan]
  • Akemi Morita:[207] First female lawyer to serve as the Chairperson of the Mie Bar Association [Kansai (Tōkai) Region, Japan]
  • Yumi Ebihara:[208] First female lawyer to serve as the Chairperson of the Saitama Bar Association [Kantō Region, Japan]
  • Reiko Fuchigami:[209] First female lawyer to serve as the Chairperson of the Tokyo Bar Association (c. 2017) [Kantō Region, Japan]
Kyushu[]
  • Hisako Yukawa (1957):[210] First female lawyer in Kyushu, Japan
  • Naoko Murakami:[211] First female lawyer to serve as the Chairperson of the Okinawa Bar Association (2020) [Kyushu, Japan]
Okinawa[]
  • Mitsuyo Oshiro:[212][213] First female lawyer and judge in Okinawa Island, Japan
Shikoku[]
  • Kiromi Ota (1996):[214] First female lawyer in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan [Shikoku, Japan]

Jordan[]

  • Emily Bisharat:[215][216] First female lawyer in Jordan
  • Taghreed Hikmat:[217][218][219] First female judge in Jordan (1996). She later became the first Arab (female) Judge of the International Criminal Court in The Hague (2003–2011).
  • Ihsan Barakat:[24][220][221][222][223] First female appointed as the Chief Justice of the West Amman Court of First Instance (2007), Attorney General[224] (in Amman in 2010), and Judge of the Cassation Court of Jordan (2018)
  • Ohood Abdullah Majali:[225][226][227] First female (a judge) prosecutor in Jordan (2010)
  • Jawaher Al-Jabour:[228] First female to serve as a criminal judge in Jordan (upon her appointment as a Judge of the South Amman Criminal Court in 2011)
  • Noura al-Jariri:[229] First blind female lawyer in Jordan

Firsts in a particular region in Jordan[]

Zarqa Governorate[]

Kazakhstan[]

  • Nagyima Idryskyzy Arykova:[231][232][233] First female to serve as the President of the Supreme Court of Kazakh ASSR (1929–1930)
  • Aitpaeva Saule Muhanbedianovna (c. 1979):[234][235][236] First female lawyer to achieve the rank of (prosecutor) general in Kazakhstan. She is also the first female to have headed a Prosecutor-General's Office's department for the Republic of Kazakhstan (1977).
  • Lyudmila Illarionovna Basharimova:[237][238] First female to serve as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1992)
  • Venera Khamitovna Seitimova:[239] First Kazakh female to serve as a Judge of the Economic Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States (2013)

Kuwait[]

  • Badria al-Awadhi:[240] First female to study law in Kuwait
  • Suad al-Jassim (1973):[241][242][243] First female lawyer in Kuwait
  • Mounira Al Wagayan:[244] One of the first 22 women appointed to serve as a prosecutor in Kuwait (2014)
  • Hanadi Al-Omani:[245][246] First female lawyer with visual impairment in Kuwait
  • Fatima Al-Sagheer, Fatima Al-Kandari, Sanabel Al-Houti, Fatima Al-Farhan, Bashair Shah, Bashaer Al-Rakdan, Rawaat Al-Tabtabae and Lulwa Al-Ghanim:[247][248] First females appointed as judges in Kuwait (upon their appointment to the Supreme Court of Kuwait in 2020)

Kyrgyzstan[]

Lebanon[]

  • Salima Abi Rashed (1914):[255] First female lawyer in Lebanon
  • Paulette Ameslend Tamer (1931):[256] First female law intern of French origin registered in Lebanon
  • Nina Trad (1932):[257][258] First female lawyer registered in Lebanon
  • Katina Gholam and Georgette Arbid Chidiac:[259][260][261] First female judges in Lebanon (1965)
  • Arlette Jreissati:[262][263] First female judge in Lebanon to have received a formal judicial education (1973)
  • Feryal Hussein Dalloul:[264][265][266] First female member of the Supreme Judicial Council of Lebanon (2006)
  • and :[267] First females to serve as Judges of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (2011)
  • Amal Haddad:[255] First female to serve as the President of a Bar Association in Lebanon (upon becoming President of the Beirut Bar Association in 2011)
  • :[267] First female to serve as the President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (2013)

Firsts in a particular region in Lebanon[]

Beirut Governorate[]

  • Joyce F. Tabet:[268] First female to hold the post of investigating judge in Beirut (1992)
  • Jacqueline Massabke:[269] First female elected to the Beirut Bar Council
  • Amal Hadad:[270] First female to head the Beirut Bar Association (2009)

Macau (CHN)[]

Malaysia[]

Firsts in a particular region in Malaysia[]

States[]

Malacca[]
  • Puan Firdawaty Binti Mohammad:[286] First female judge of the Malacca City Syariah Court (2011)
Terengganu[]

Maldives[]

Mongolia[]

  • Binjelkh Tserenbaljir (c. 1963):[295] First female lawyer in Mongolia, as well as the first female assistant procurator of Mongolia's State Prosecutor's Office (1968)
  • Dolgorsuren Khash-Erdene:[296] First female prosecutor trained abroad by the General Prosecutor's Office of Mongolia
  • T. Enkhtuya:[297] First female appointed as a Judge of the Aimag Court (1992). She later became the first female Chief Justice of the Civil Court of Appeal and the Court of Appeals of the First Civil Prosecutor's Office in Mongolia.
  • Tserennadmid Narangiin:[298][299] First female Prosecutor General of the Aimag (upon serving as the Prosecutor General of the Selenge Aimag Prosecutor's Office from 1993-2001)
  • Alimantsetseg Sodon:[299][300] First female appointed as a Deputy Prosecutor General of Mongolia (2019)

Myanmar (Burma)[]

Phwar Hmee: First female lawyer in Myanmar (Burma) (1925)

Nepal[]

North Korea[]

  • Lee Tai-Young (1952):[323][324] First female lawyer in Korea. She completed her two years of training by 1954, but did not set up a law practice until 1957. She later became a judge.

Oman[]

  • Suad Al-Lamkia:[325][326] First Omani female legal advisor and the first female lawyer to obtain a law degree in 1962. Shortly afterwards, she began her legal career in Zanzibar before eventually practicing in Oman.
  • Kamilia al Busaidy (1997):[327] First female registered lawyer in Oman
  • Sahar Askalan:[328] First Omani woman to set up a law firm in Oman
  • Jalila bint Sulaiman al-Rawahiya:[329][330] First female to serve as a Director of Public Prosecutions (in Barka, Oman in 2008). She was one of the first 16 women appointed as a prosecutor in Oman in 2004.[331][332]

Firsts in a particular region in Oman[]

Al Buraimi Governorate[]

Pakistan[]

  • Salma Sobhan (1959):[334] First female lawyer in Pakistan
  • Khalida Rashid Khan (1969): First female judge in Pakistan (upon her appointment as a Judge of the Superior Judiciary of Pakistan in 1974)
  • Majida Rizvi:[335][336] First female appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Pakistan (1994)
  • Noor Naz Agha:[337][338] First female lawyer to hold an elective office of a bar council in Pakistan (upon becoming the Vice-Chairperson of the Sindh Bar Council in 2005). She also became the first female member of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan in 2017.
  • Asma Jahangir (1978):[339] First female (a lawyer) to serve as the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan (2010–2012)
  • Ashraf Jehan:[340][341] First female appointed as a Judge of the Federal Shari'a Court in Pakistan (2013)
  • Tahira Safdar:[342][343] First female justice to become a chief justice in Pakistan (upon her appointment as Chief Justice of the Balochistan High Court in 2018). She was also the first female appointed as a civil judge in Balochistan (1982).
  • Suman Pawan Badani and Diana Kumari:[344][345] First Hindu females to become civil judges in Pakistan (2019)
  • Naderat Paracha:[346] First female lawyer from Pakistan to earn a doctorate in Judicial Science (2020)

Firsts in a particular region in Pakistan[]

Region[]

  • Amna Zamir Khan:[347][348] First female judge in Gilgit-Baltistan (2017)
  • Nazish Maryam:[349] First female judge in Baltistan (2018) [Autonomous Territory of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan]
  • Saima Anwar (2015):[350] First female to practice law in the Swat Valley [Northern Pakistan]

Territories[]

Islamabad Capital Territory[]
  • Syeda Azra Maudat:[352] First female to run a candidate for President of the Islamabad Bar Association (2020)

Provinces[]

Balochistan[]
  • Shazia Mehrab:[354] First female lawyer in Gwadar, Pakistan (2019) [Balochistan Province, Pakistan]
Khyber[]
  • Mehnaz Bibi:[355] First female to serve as the Joint Secretary of the Peshawar High Court (2019)
Punjab[]

  • Shabana Rasalat Abbasi:[358] First female judge of the Rawalpindi Division

  • Akmal Khan:[359] First female lawyer to serve as the Oath Commissioner for the Shakargarh Bar Association (2020)

Sindh[]

  • Surraiya Ahmed Pai:[356] First female magistrate in Karachi, Pakistan

Palestine (ISR)[]

  • Freda Slutzkin (1930):[360] First female lawyer in Mandatory Palestine
  • Saada Fawzi Khalil Kamal Dajani (1967):[361][362][363] First female to become a lawyer, prosecutor (1971), judge (1973), Justice of the Supreme Court (1995), and Justice of the Supreme Constitutional Court (2011) in Palestine
  • Iman Naser Al-Deen:[364][365][366] First female appointed as a judge in the Palestinian territories (1982) and a Senior Judge of the High Judicial Council in Palestine
  • Kholoud Al-Faqih (2001) and :[19][367][368][369][370] First females appointed as Judges of the Sharia Court in Palestine (2009)[371]
  • :[370][372] First female appointed as the Chief Prosecutor of Personal Status for the Upper Council of Sharia Courts in Palestine (2010)
  • :[370][373] First female appointed as a marriage officiant (Sharia marriage judge) in Palestine (2015)
  • Najwa Abdullah:[374] First female to serve as a Chief Public Prosecutor in Palestine [upon her appointment to the role in the Salfit Governorate, Palestine in 2016]
  • Hana Taraz:[375][376] First Christian female lawyer in Palestine to plead before the Islamic court (2018)

Philippines[]

Cecilia Muñoz-Palma: First female Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (1973)
  • Floy Gilmore:[377][378] First female appointed as the Assistant Attorney General of the Philippines (1903)
  • Maria del Pilar Francisco de Villacerna (1911):[379][380] First female lawyer in the Philippines
  • Natividad Almeda-López (1914):[381][382] First female judge in the Philippines (1934), as well as the first female appointed as a Judge of the Court of Appeals in the Philippines
  • Cecilia Muñoz-Palma (1937):[383] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (1973). She was the first female district court judge in the Philippines (1954), as well as the first female prosecutor for Quezon City, Philippines (1947).
  • Merceditas Gutierrez (1974):[384] First female (a lawyer) appointed as the Ombudsman of the Philippines (2005). She was also the first female to serve as the Secretary of Justice for the Philippines (2002–2003).
  • Agnes Devanadera:[385] First female appointed as the Solicitor-General of the Philippines (2007–2010)
  • Marian Aleido (1979):[386] First female appointed as the Judge Advocate General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (2012)
  • Maria Lourdes Sereno:[387] First female justice appointed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (2012)
  • Miriam Defensor Santiago:[388] First female of Filipino descent elected as a Judge of the International Criminal Court (2012)

Firsts in a particular region in the Philippines[]

Bicol[]

  • Fe Uy-Buenaventura:[389] First female lawyer in Catanduanes

Central Visayas[]

  • Elena Ruiz Causin (1938):[390][391] First female lawyer and judge in Cebu

National Capital[]

Qatar[]

Saudi Arabia[]

Firsts in a particular region in Saudi Arabia[]

Region[]

  • Jamila Fahd al-Atram (2013):[414] First female lawyer in the Al-Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia

Provinces[]

Jazan[]
Tabuk[]

Singapore[]

  • Teo Soon Kim (1929):[78] First female lawyer admitted to the Bar in the Straits Settlements [Singapore]
  • Jenny Lau Buong Bee (1957):[417][418][419] First female judge in Singapore (1966)
  • Ong Cheng See (c. 1960s):[420] First woman advocate / solicitor admitted to the Singapore Bar that attended a university within the country
  • Lai Siu Chiu (1973):[421][422] First woman to serve as a Judicial Commissioner (1991) and the first woman appointed as a Judge of the High Court in the Supreme Court of Singapore (1994)
  • Koh Juat Jong (1989):[423] First female appointed as the Solicitor-General of Singapore (2008)
  • Judith Prakash:[424] First female appointed as a permanent Judge of the Singapore Court of Appeal (2016)

South Korea[]

  • Lee Tai-young (1952):[323][324] First female lawyer in Korea. She completed her two years of training by 1954, but did not set up a law practice until 1957. She later became a judge.
  • Hwang Yun-suk (passed a Judicial Examination in 1952):[425][426] First female judge in South Korea (1954)[427]
  • Chosun Sook and Park Suk Kyung:[428][429] First female prosecutors in South Korea (1982)
  • Lee Young-ae:[430][431] First female to serve as a Chief Judge in South Korea (upon her appointment as the head of the Suwon District Court in 1988)
  • Kang Kum-sil:[429] First female to serve as the Attorney General for South Korea (2003)
  • Chung Hyo-sook:[429][432] First female appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Korea (2003)
  • Kim Young-ran:[433][434] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Korea (2004)

Firsts in a particular region in South Korea[]

South Gyeongnam Province[]

Sri Lanka[]

  • Avabai Bomanji Wadia (1934):[436] First Sri Lankan woman to pass the bar examination, but could not find employment as an attorney [Sri Lanka]
  • Ezlynn Deraniyagala (1935): First female lawyer in Sri Lanka
  • Shiranee Tilakawardane:[437][438] First female judge in Sri Lanka (upon her appointment as a Judge of the High Court in 1988). She is also the first female appointed as a State Counsel (1978), Judge of the Admiralty Court, Justice of the Court of Appeal (1998) and President of the Court of Appeal.
  • Shirani Bandaranayake (1983):[439] First female appointed to the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka (1996), went onto become the first female Chief Justice.
  • Eva Wansundera (1997):[440][441] First female to serve as Senior State Counsel, Deputy Solicitor General, Additional Solicitor General, Solicitor General (2011) and Attorney General of Sri Lanka (2011–2012)
  • Radhika Coomaraswamy:[442] First female to serve as a member of the Constitutional Council of Sri Lanka (2015)

Syria[]

  • Bouran Al-Tarazi (1937):[443][444] First female lawyer in Syria
  • Insaf al-Borai:[445][446][447] First female judge in the United Arab Republic (1958; a republic signifying the union of Egypt and Syria from 1958-1971)
  • Ghāda Murād:[448][449][450][451] First female judge in Syria (1975). She was also the first female prosecutor in Syria.
  • Zahra Bashmani:[452][453] First female judge appointed as the President of the Counter-Terrorism Court of Syria (2017)
  • Khadija Badrakhan:[454] First female judge to serve as the President of the First Court of Appeals in Syria (c. 2017)

Firsts in a particular region in Syria[]

Aleppo Governorate[]

  • Insaf al-Borai:[445][446][447] First female lawyer in Aleppo, Syria (1956)

Lattakia Governorate[]

  • Amna Minni:[455] First female appointed as the Head of the Bar Association in Latakia

Tartus Governorate[]

  • Raeda Tartousia (1965):[456] First female lawyer in Safita

Taiwan (CHN)[]

Firsts in a particular region in Taiwan[]

Tajikistan[]

Thailand[]

  • (1930):[470][471] First female lawyer in Thailand
  • Chalorjit Jittarutta:[472][473] First female judge in Thailand (1965)
  • Yindi Wacharaphong Persuwan:[474][475][476] First female appointed as a Judge of the Supreme Court of Thailand (1996). She later served as a Chief Justice for the Supreme Court system.
  • Saowanee Asavarot (1973):[477][478] First female appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Thailand (2003). She is also considered the first female law professor in Thailand.
  • Ubolratana Wudhikapath:[479][480] First female judge to serve as the President of the Court of Appeal of Thailand (2018)
  • Methinee Chalothorn:[481][482] First female appointed to serve as the President of the Supreme Court of Thailand (2020)

Turkmenistan[]

United Arab Emirates[]

  • Samira Gargash (1991):[361][485][486] First female lawyer in the United Arab Emirates
  • Alia Muhammad Saeed Al Kaabi and Atqa Awad Ali Al Kathiri:[487][488] First females appointed as public prosecutors in the United Arab Emirates (2007)
  • Khulood al Dhaheri:[489][490][491] First female judge in the United Arab Emirates (2008)
  • Manar al Hammadi:[492][493][494] First visually impaired female lawyer in the United Arab Emirates
  • Fatima Al Qubaisi (2017):[495][496] First Emirati woman to graduate with a law degree from Paris-Sorbonne University in Abu Dhabi, as well as the first Emirati woman to graduate from Harvard Law School
  • Khadija Khamis Al-Malas:[497][498] First female to serve as an appellate court judge in the United Arab Emirates (2019)
  • Salama Rashid Al-Ketbi:[497][498] First female to serve as a Judge of the First Instance Court in the United Arab Emirates (2019)
  • Alia Muhammad Saeed Al Kaabi:[499] First female to serve as a Public Prosecution Director in the United Arab Emirates (upon her appointment as the Director of the Family Prosecution Office in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi)

Firsts in a particular region in the United Arab Emirates[]

Emirate of Dubai[]

  • Wedad Huda Azhari Doleh:[500] First female lawyer in Dubai
  • Ebtisam Ali Rashid Al Bedwawi:[501][502] First female judge in Dubai (2009)
  • Cynthia Trench (1996):[503] First female expatriate to be licensed as a lawyer in Dubai
  • Maha Khaled Muhammad Kadfour Al Muhairi:[504] First female appointed as a Judge of Court of First Instance in the courts of the Dubai International Financial Center (2021)

Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah[]

  • Aisha Rashid Al Tunaiji:[505] First female lawyer in Ras Al Khaimah

Uzbekistan[]

Vietnam[]

Firsts in a particular region in Vietnam[]

District[]

  • Nguyễn Phước Đại (1951):[517][518] First female lawyer under the South Vietnamese government (specifically in Saigon, Vietnam) [District 1, Vietnam]

Provinces[]

Hà Tây[]

  • Vu Kim Sinh:[519] First female lawyer in the former Hà Tây Province (which is now subsumed in the city of Hanoi)

Nghệ An[]

  • Le Thi Kim Soa:[520] Reputed to be the first female lawyer to open a law practice in North-Central Vietnam

Thừa Thiên-Huế[]

  • Trai Le (c. 1956):[521] First female lawyer in Central Vietnam (specifically in Huế, Vietnam) [, Vietnam]

Yemen[]

  • Hamida Zakaria:[522][523] First female judge in Yemen (1968)
  • Raqia Humaidan (1980):[524][525][526][527][528] First female lawyer in Yemen
  • Shada Nasser (1989):[529][530][531] First female lawyer to not cover her up face while practicing before Yemen's courts. She was also the first female lawyer in Sana’a, as well as the first female to develop and head an all-female law firm in the same city (1996).
  • Samia Abdullah Saeed:[532][533][534] First female appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Yemen (2006)

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