Rafayel Yeranosyan - “Pahlevan” at AGBU Performing Art Center in Pasadena, CA, March 14 2025, (818) 265-0506 
The Armenian American Museum Young Leaders Council in Glendale, CA. December 13th - 15th at 7:00 PM. Call: (818) 926-8108 Dame Sayan Srbouhi Ilayas
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Being the first is truly very characteristic of Armenian women, and there are many examples in our days as well. With this said, the first woman president of the Supreme Court was also an Armenian woman. New Zealand decided that one of the first two women elected to the position of lawyer of the royalty – Dame Sayan Srbuhi Ilayas, who vigorously supported the protection of the rights of the people of Maor, had to become a supreme judge. Moreover, the uniqueness of the position of a Supreme Judge of New Zealand is that one of the duties of the Judge is substituting the country’s general-governor (appointed by Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain) in case the general-governor is ill or in case of his or her absence at the moment it is necessary.
The New Zealand Herald writes the following about Dame Sayan Srbuhi Ilayas: “If there is a personality trait that none of her acquaintances can dispute, it is the fact that she is kind in all cases, even when she is strictly criticized.”
