Neha Sharma topped this year's Jammu and Kashmir Combined Competitive Examination, the second woman in the state to achieve this feat.
Neha bagged the top slot among the 65 successful candidates, 14 of them woman, an official spokesman said.
Syed Sehrish Zargar had topped the state Civil Services Examination in 2011 and went on to crack the IAS examination earlier this year.
The J&K Combined Competitive Examination is held to recruit officers for the Kashmir Administrative Service, the state's equivalent to Union Civil Services.
More than 14,000 candidates appeared for written tests for 65 posts in the state government.
