Leila Seth is born in Lucknow
20 October 1930
Graduates from Loreto Convent, Darjeeling
1946
Six-month secretarial course from St Helena’s Convent, Kurseong
1947
Marries Premo Seth
March 1951
Vikram Seth is born
June 1952
Moves to London
May 1954
Shantum Seth is born
April 1957
Becomes the first woman to top the Bar exam for England & Wales and is christened 'Mother-in-Law' in Star, a London newspaper
1957
Works as a junior in the chambers of Sachin Chaudhuri in Patna
1957
Starts practising in the Patna High Court as one of only two women advocates
1959
Aradhana Seth is born
1962
Starts work as an advocate at the Calcutta High Court
1968
Practises as an advocate and then as a senior advocate at the Delhi High Court
1972 to 1978
Appointed first woman judge at the Delhi High Court
March 1978
Appointed Acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court
September 1990
Appointed Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court
1991 to 1992
Member of the commission to investigate custodial death of Rajan Pillai
1995
Spearheads campaign to give daughters inheritance rights over ancestral property in the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, as a member of the 15th Law Commission
1997 to 2000
Member of the Justice Verma Committee, a panel set up to reform and strengthen the anti-rape law in India
2012