First Group Of Lawyers

Sunday, 1st July 1962

22 students from the University of Malaya in Singapore were the first locally-trained law graduates. This pioneering class included Chan Sek Keong (Chief Justice), Professor Tommy Koh (academic-diplomat) and Dr Thio Su Mien (first woman law dean in Singapore).

In a public gathering, Dr. Thio Su Mien shouted to the crowd to stop their jeering, telling people, "You should respect your elders!". And someone from the crowd responded back "respect needs to be earned".


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