Education
Menon graduated with first class honours from the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law in 1986 and later obtained his Master of Laws from Harvard Law School.
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Career
He is the first ethnic Indian to hold both posts. The former Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong had also served as the Attorney General. He served a one-year term as Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore from 2006 to 2007.
Menon stepped down from the office of Attorney-General on 25 June 2012 assumed his new position of Judge of Appeal on 1 August 2012.
He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2008. On 7 November 2012, he was sworn in as Singapore"s fourth Chief Justice at the Istana.
He is the first non-Chinese (Indo-Singaporean) Chief Justice of the Republic of Singapore and also the first Singaporean-born Chief Justice.
Membership
He was also the deputy chairman of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, a member of the Senate of the Singapore Academy of Law, and Chairman of the Advisory Board for the law faculty of Singapore Management University.
