Jenny Lau Buong Bee

Lau grew up in a large family with seven sisters.^[1] She attended the Methodist Girls' School.^[2] She then went on to study law at Lincoln's Inn in London.^[1] Afterwards, she was called to the English Bar in 1957 and then in 1958, to the Singapore Bar.^[1] Lau worked for a private law firm for a short time in Singapore.^[3] On April 4, 1960, she became the first woman to serve as a magistrate in Malaya.^[4] In 1966, she was the first woman to appointed a district judge in Singapore.^[1]

Lau died on 9 June 2013, after fighting cancer.^[1] She was inducted into the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame in 2014.^[3]