Chandra Ekanayake is a

Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...

n judge and lawyer. She was a sitting judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and since 2012 is also a non-resident Justice of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Fiji. Ekanayake was educated at

Sanghamitta Balika Vidyalaya Sanghamitta Balika Vidyalaya (also called: Sanghamitta Girls' College) is a Buddhist girls' school in Galle, Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ila ...

Galle Galle ( si, ගාල්ල, translit=Gālla; ta, காலி, translit=Kāli) (formerly Point de Galle) is a major city in Sri Lanka, situated on the southwestern tip, from Colombo. Galle is the provincial capital and largest city of Southern ...

and Visakha Vidyalaya,

Colombo Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo me ...

, thereafter she entering the

Sri Lanka Law College Sri Lanka Law College (abbreviated as SLLC), formerly known as Ceylon Law College, is a law college, and the only legal institution where one can enroll as a attorney-at-law in Sri Lanka. It was established in 1874, under the then Council of Legal ...

. Ekanayake was admitted to the bar in 1974 and severed from 1979 to 1980 a judge of the Primary Court. Her husband

Tissa Ekanayake Tissa may refer to: ;People *Prince Tissa, Sinhalese regent of the Kingdom of Tambapanni (454 BC–437 BC) *Vitashoka, the brother of Ashoka, called Tissa in the Southern Buddhist tradition *Tissa (prince), viceroy of Vientiane, took part in L ...

is also a senior High Court Judge.

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