Omana Kunjamma was India's first female magistrate.[1] Kunjamma was born in the village of Thikkurissy, Nagercoil (then a part of Travancore, now in Nanchilnadu, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu), in an aristocratic Malayalee Nair family, to Mangat C. Govinda Pillai and N. Lekshmi Amma.
Kunjamma is the elder sister of Malayalam actor Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair.