COVER STORY
JUSTICE DR. MANJULA CHELLUR
Chief Justice, Bombay High Court
J
ustice Dr. Manjula Chellur is the Chief Justice
of the Bombay High Court. She is the first
woman advocate of Bellary. Justice Manjula
joined the Karnataka Judicial Service as District
Judge in April 1988. She got her fellowship on
Gender and Law in 1997 at Warwick University,
UK. She was appointed the first woman Judge
of the Karnataka High Court in February 2000
and was soon promoted as permanent Judge
there.
She was also the Executive Chairperson of the
Karnataka State Legal Services Authority and
took keen interest in the welfare of transgenders
and organized seminars throughout the State of
Karnataka.
In recognition of her outstanding contribution
in the field of law, the Karnataka State Women’s
University, Bijapur, conferred an honorary
doctorate on Justice Manjula in March 2013.
She assumed the office of Chief Justice of
Calcutta High Court in August 2014 and became
37th and the first ever woman Chief Justice of
Calcutta High Court.
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