Teo Soon Kim

Teo Soon Kim also Teow Soon Kim and Lo-Teo Soon Kim (23 June 1904 – 23 April 1978) was a barrister in Singapore, Hong Kong and also in England. She was the first woman admitted to the Straits Settlement bar, and the first woman barrister in Hong Kong. She also became the third Malayan Chinese woman to become a barrister in England.

Biography Teo's father, Teo Eng Hock, was a rubber baron from Teochew. She went to the University of London to study law and lived in Finchley. In 1929, Teo was admitted to the Singapore bar. She practiced for a few years in Singapore after spending two years in China. In 1932, she moved to Hong Kong and became the first woman admitted to the bar there in August 1932.

In the early 1920s, Teo converted to Christianity. She was inducted into the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame in 2014.