Justice Daya Chaudhary (Rawat)
Daya Rawat January 10, 1959 is a Jat from village Bahin in Palwal. She is wife of joint excise and taxation commission officer and RTS commissioners Dr. Amar Singh. She is the first woman lawyer to be elevated from the Bar Association as a High Court Judge. In 1999-2000, she was elected as President of the Punjab & Haryana High Court Bar Association and earned the distinction of being the first woman President ever elected to a Bar Association in the country. She was also the youngest President who earned this position at the age of 40. Justice Chaudhary was the first woman Assistant Solicitor General of India in the Punjab and Haryana High Court and remained so till her elevation to the Bench on December 5, 2007
Education
- She passed her Matriculation Examination from Government Girls Secondary School, Palwal in the year 1974
- graduated in Arts from I.C. Government College for women, Rohtak in the year 1978.
- Post Graduation from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra in the year 1980
- LL.B from Panjab University, Chandigarh, in the year 1985.
- Post Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management and Labour Welfare and Post Graduate Diploma in Public Relations.
Advocate
She was enrolled as an Advocate with Bar Council of Punjab & Haryana High Court, Chandigarh in the year 1987 and started practice in Punjab & Haryana High Court, Chandigarh. Her Lordship specialized in Constitutional, Civil, Criminal and Tax. She also held the coveted post of Senior Central Government Standing Counsel, Assistant Solicitor General of India in Punjab & Haryana High Court. She was designated as a Senior Advocate on April 26, 2007 by Punjab & Haryana High Court and had credit of being the only senior designate woman lawyer in the High Court. Vice Chairperson, Haryana State Social Advisory Board; Member, State Telephone Advisory Committee; Member Punjab and Haryana State Legal Services Authority; Member Administrators’ Advisory Council, Chandigarh and Non-Official Member of Central Jail, Burail. Her Lordship has also been Special Public Prosecutor (CBI) and Member, Counselling Centre, Punjab & Haryana High Court, Chandigarh.
Posts
- 1996 - MLA candidate of Congress from Hathin Assembly against her cousin Bhagwan Sahai Rawat
- 1999 - President of Punjab & Haryana High Court Bar Association and earned the distinction of being first woman President ever elected.
- 2007 Elevated as Judge of Punjab & Haryana High Court, Chandigarh, she is the first woman lawyer to be elevated as a High Court Judge in the Punjab & Haryana High Court.
- 2022 President of Punjab State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission
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