She has also chaired the following In House Committees – Joint Ad-Hoc Committee on Oversight and Accountability as well as the Joint Task Team on Legislative Procedure.

She was also nominated to represent Parliament on the Magistrates Commission for two terms during which she chaired the Western Cape Provincial Committee of the Magistrates Commission which recommended new appointments to the Bench.

Deputy Minister Chohan is currently a representative of the National Assembly to the Judicial Services Commission having been nominated in May 2009.

She is currently the Deputy Chairperson of the Robert Waterwich Thornhill Branch of the ANC in the Dulla Omar region. 

Prior to being appointed as a Member of Parliament, Deputy Minister Chohan held the following positions: Legal Advisor in the Office of the Premier (Gauteng), Legal Advisor in the Gauteng Legislature, and Deputy Head of the Metro Legal Services in the Greater Johannesburg. 

Deputy Minister Chohan served as an alternate representative of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) at CODESA and was part of the provincial task team responsible for inducting the first batch of newly elected ANC councillors in the early 1990s.

Beginning her activist career while still a student, Deputy Minister Chohan, while at WITS, was elected to the Executive Committee of the Muslim Students Society while also being a member of the Black Student Society

With a BProc from the University of Witwatersrand (WITS), Deputy Minister Chohan was admitted to the Side Bar in 1998 and is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Constitutional Law at Rhodes University.