title: Rachel Chatterjee
text: # Rachel Chatterjee
  
  Rachel Chatterjee is a retired Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officer and the first women to be appointed as the Chairperson of Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission.
  
  ## Biography
  
  She was born to K.J Chandy in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and was raised in a Syrian Christian family. She has two sisters and one brother. She did her M. A. in English and a diploma in Journalism. She joined the Indian Administrative Services in 1975 and was allotted to the Andhra Pradesh Cadre.
  
  She is married to Tishya Chatterjee, her batch mate and also a bureaucrat, in 1976. They have two children. She has worked for more than thirty as a bureaucrat at different places and has been a district collector in three different districts.
  
  ## Positions held
  
  * District Collector of Anantapur District(1983-1984).
  * Commissioner of Municipal Corporation Of Hyderabad (1992-1993).
  * Chairman & Managing Director for AP Transco.
  * Principal Secretary to Department of Medial & Health.
  * Principal Secretary to Department of Social Welfare.
  * Director, Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India (1984-1985).
  
  ## Achievements
  
  The Government of Canada awarded her the Lester Pearson Fellowship at the University of Ottawa.
  
  