Previous lawyer Vice Presidents (based on Wikipedia research):
- VV Giri, Barrister qualified in Ireland, later became President of India - GS Pathak, was a judge of the Allahabad High Court - BD Jatti, practised as a trial court lawyer in a small town in Karnataka, was also Law Minister - M Hidyatullah: Cambridge-educated barrister, later Supreme Court judge - R Venkatraman: Studied law, not known to have practised, later became President of India - Shankar Dayal Sharma: Cambridge-educated barrister, not known to have practised, later became President of India - Venkaiah Nadu: Studied law, not known to have practised
Thus, Dhankhar is the first VP since Hidyatullah in 1979 to have actually been a legal practitioner and it looks like he is the first Senior Advocate to become VP. [...]
- VV Giri, Barrister qualified in Ireland, later became President of India
- GS Pathak, was a judge of the Allahabad High Court
- BD Jatti, practised as a trial court lawyer in a small town in Karnataka, was also Law Minister
- M Hidyatullah: Cambridge-educated barrister, later Supreme Court judge
- R Venkatraman: Studied law, not known to have practised, later became President of India
- Shankar Dayal Sharma: Cambridge-educated barrister, not known to have practised, later became President of India
- Venkaiah Nadu: Studied law, not known to have practised
Thus, Dhankhar is the first VP since Hidyatullah in 1979 to have actually been a legal practitioner and it looks like he is the first Senior Advocate to become VP. [...]