About Jenny Lau Buong Bee
Lived 1932 – 2013 (aged 80–81). Jenny Lau Buong Bee was a judge.
Jenny Lau Buong Bee (1932 – 9 June 2013) was a Singaporean lawyer and judge. She was the first woman to become a district judge in Singapore. Before Singapore was a country, she was the first magistrate in Malaya.
Biography Lau grew up in a large family with seven sisters. She attended the Methodist Girls' School. She then went on to study law at Lincoln's Inn in London. On April 4, 1960, she became the first woman to serve as a magistrate in Malaya. In 1966, she was the first woman to appointed a district judge in Singapore.
Lau died on 9 June 2013, after fighting cancer. She was inducted into the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame in 2014.
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First Singaporean female district judge
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Jenny Lau Buong Bee was born in 1932 in Singapore.
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Jenny Lau Buong Bee died on 9 June 2013.
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Jenny Lau Buong Bee was a judge.
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