KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 11): The former Chief Judge of Malaya, Tan Sri Zaharah Ibrahim, has been appointed as the new chairman of Kumpulan Prasarana, effective today.

In a statement, Prasarana said the former chief judge of Malaya will be filling in the post vacated by Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar following the latter's resignation on Aug 17 last year.

Born in Johor Bahru in 1952, Zaharah has an honours degree in law from Universiti Malaya, and has been active in the judiciary and legal field since April 1977.

Following her retirement from the Judicial and Legal Service, she was appointed the Commissioner of Judiciary in August 2004 and worked in the Civil Division of the Kuala Lumpur High Court, followed by a stint in the Criminal Division of the Shah Alam High Court (from Oct 1, 2004 until July 27, 2006)

She was subsequently appointed as High Court Judge on July 28, 2006, and placed with the Shah Alam High Court's Criminal Division, and later the Commercial Division of the Kuala Lumpur High Court, where she stayed from Jan 1, 2009 till April 13, 2010.

She was then appointed as an Appeals Court Judge on April 14, 2010, and then a Federal Court Judge on Feb 16, 2015. Then, on July 17, 2018, she was named the Chief Judge of Malaya — making her the second woman to ever be appointed to the post — which she later retired from in May this year.

Prasarana Malaysia Bhd is a wholly-owned company of Ministry of Finance, and is the owner and the manager of public transportation assets, including bus services, the LRT/Monorail/MRT services, and the Penang ferry service.

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