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Indian lawyer and politician who became the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court and the first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court on 5 August 1991. Leila Seth was the first woman to top the London Bar exam in 1958. She joined the bar in 1959. In the same year she also graduated as an IAS officer. When in India, she was a junior to Ashoke Kumar Sen when she used to practise during his absence from the central cabinet of India. She handled a large number of Tax matters (Income Tax, Sales Tax, Excise and Customs), Civil, Company and Criminal cases as also Matrimonial suits and writ petitions. In 1978, she was appointed as the first woman judge on the Delhi High Court. In 1991, she was appointed the Chief Justice of Himachal Pradesh. She died after suffering a cardio-respiratory attack on the night of 5 May 2017 at her residence in Noida, aged 86, survived by her husband, two sons and a daughter. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less