1^st Indian Woman President of Indian National Congress

Sarojini Naidu, 1925

Session-Kanpur

1^st woman President of INC

Mrs. Annie Besant, 1917

Session-Calcutta

1^st Woman President of India

Smt. Pratibha Patil

1^st Woman PM of India

Indira Gandhi

1^st Woman President of Indian Nation Congress after Independence

Indira Gandhi, 1960, Bangalore

1^st Woman Speaker of Lok Sabha

Meira Kumar (2009)

1^st Woman Minister of India

Vijay Laxmi Pandit (1937)

1^st Woman Judge in Supreme Court of India

Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi in 1989.

She the first Muslim Woman to be appointed to any higher Judiciary.

She is the first woman judge of a SC of a nation in India.

1^st Woman Minster in a government Cabinet Minister

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

1^st Woman Governor of a State in free India

Mrs. Sarojini Naidu (Govt. of UP)

1^st Woman Speaker of a State Assembly

Shanno Devi (Punjab)

1^st Woman Chief Minister of an Indian State

Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani (UP)

1^st Woman Chairman of UPSC

RozeMillianBethew

1^st Woman to become Chief Election Commissioner

V.S. Ramadevi

1^st Woman CAG of India

SindhashreeKbullar

1^st Woman Chief Information Commissioner of India

Deepak Sandha (2013)

1^st Woman to became the Central Vigilance Commissioner

Ranjana Kumar

1^st Woman Lieutenant General of India

Puneeta Arora

1^st Women Magistrate

OmanaKunyamma

1^st Woman Railway Minister

Mamata Banrjee

1^st Woman Judge

Anna Chandy (Became Judge in District Court in 1937.

She is the 1^st woman in India to become a High Court Judge i.e. at Kerala H.C

1^st Woman Chief Justice of High Court

Mrs. Leela Seth (Himanchal Pradesh)

1^st Woman Home Minister of a State

Satitha Indira Reddy (AP)

1^st Woman Chairperson of Rajya Sabha

Videt Alva

1^st Woman nominated member of the Rajya Sabha

Rukmini Devi Arundale

1^st Woman Eternal Affairs Minister

Sushma Swaraj

1^st Woman film star to be a member of Rajya Sabha

Nargis Dutt

1^st Woman Ambassador from India

Vijay Lakshmi Pandit

1^st Woman to win Asian Squash title

JoshnaChinappa (2017) at Chennai
Defeating- Dipika Pallikal

1^st Woman Additional Solicitor General India

Indira Jaising

1^st Chairman of National Commission for Women

Jayanti Pattnaik

1^st Woman Lawyer from the country to be directly elected for the post of Judge of the Supreme Court

Indu Malhotra