Padma Lakshmi becomes Kerala’s First Transgender Lawyer

Category : State Published on: March 23 2023

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Padma Lakshmi becomes the first ever Transgender in Kerala who has obtained the position of lawyer and got her name in the Bar Council.
Lakshmi was among 1,500 law graduates who were inducted in the ceremony.
Padma Lakshmi graduated from Ernakulam Government Law College.
Before this she completed her graduation in Physics and is now looking to clear the judicial competitive exam.
Earlier in 2017, the country got its first transgender judge in the form of Joyita Mondal.
She was appointed as a judge in the Lok Adalat in West Bengal‘s Islampur city.
A year later, transgender activist Vidya Kamble was named a member judge in the Lok Adalat in Maharashtra’s Nagpur.
The same year, Swati Bidhan Baruah, who hailed from Assam, became the third transgender judge in the country.