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Malaysia's First Woman Chief Judge Retires 
Posted on Monday, January 08, 2007 - 12:00 AM

AFTER 43 years in the legal profession, the Chief Judge of Malaya, Siti Norma Yaakob, retired on 5 January 2007.


Siti Norma, 67, held the Chief Judge's post for almost two years since February 8, 2005 and is the first woman in the country to occupy the post.

She started as a Senior Assistant Registrar at the Kuala Lumpur High Court in July 1963. She later held several important posts including Senior Federal Counsel at the Solicitor-General's Office and Chief Registrar of the Federal Court. She was appointed a High Court Judge in April, 1983 and later as an Appeals Court Judge in 1994. She became a Federal Court Judge in 2001.