Meet Rachna Reddy Bollu, Telangana High Court's Youngest Ever Senior Advocate

Rachna Reddy Bollu is designated as the youngest-ever senior advocate of the Telangana High Court.

Rachna Reddy Bollu was one of the 36 lawyers to be designated as senior advocates by the Telangana High Court this week. Bollu is one of three women and the youngest senior advocate in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh's high courts.

Who is Rachna Reddy Bollu?

• Rachna Reddy Bollu enrolled as an advocate in 2005 after obtaining her undergraduate degree in law from ILS College, Pune. She went on to obtain her master's in law from the University of California, Los Angeles. She then practised law in the United States for more than four years. While working in the United States, she was actively involved in the Human Rights Project for the areas of immigration and naturalisation law, particularly asylum litigation.
• Concurrently, she also worked as a lecturer at the California International University, where she taught graduate and undergraduate courses in international business.
• After coming back to India, she worked as an assistant professor at the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) for three years.
• In 2011, she began practising law again and worked in litigation. She deals mainly with land acquisition matters. Her practice focuses on the original side of the High Court, where she deals with issues of constitutional law. She's also involved in civil and criminal litigation.
• Bollu is also the official spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Telangana.
• "I look forward to working harder, and it's more responsibility as a senior advocate, as a woman, and as someone who is younger than the rest," said Bollu while speaking to the Bar&Bench.
• Recently, the Telangana High Court appointed 36 lawyers as senior advocates, including three women.
• In an ">interview, Bollu said, "I had a lot of scope and a lot of independence and freedom to choose what I wanted to do." Bollu hails from Nagireddypet in the Kamareddy district. Her father is a sociology graduate who is a full-time agriculturalist. Her parents are from the Nizamabad district of Telangana State.

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