First woman AG takes oaths [September 12 2011]

Solicitor General S. Eva Wanasundara today appointed as the new Attorney General before President Mahinda Rajapaksa today. She is the first woman AG in Sri Lanka.

Sworn in as an Attorney-at-Law in 1977, Mrs. Wanasundara became a State Counsel in 1979. In addition she assumed her office as the first woman Senior State Counsel in 1992 and also the first woman Additional Solicitor General in 2005.