List of former chief justices of the high courts of India

This Article is a consolidated list of former chief justices of all high courts of India. This list includes both permanent Chief Justices as well as known acting Chief Justices as official websites of all high courts except Punjab and Haryana High Court do not maintain list of former acting chief justices, thus reliable data about all the former acting chief justices is not readily available.

High Court of Judicature at Allahabad established on 17 March 1866 has have the maximum number of chief justices totalling 51 while Andhra Pradesh High Court established on 1 January 2019 has have least number of chief justices totalling 4 only as of 1 June 2025 (2025-06-01).

Date of initial appointment : Date of first appointment as High court judge

The Allahabad High Court was established on 17 March 1866 under Indian High Courts Act 1861 and has had 50 Chief Justices^[1][2] excluding Acting Chief Justices.

Permanent Chief Justices

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment	Ref..
1	Walter Morgan		17 March 1866	21 November 1871[§][a]	5 years, 250 days	Calcutta	1 July 1862
2	Robert Stuart		22 November 1871	31 October 1884	12 years, 345 days	Bar	--	[3]
3	William Comer Petheram		1 November 1884	23 March 1886[§][b]	1 year, 143 days	Bar	--	[4][5]
4	John Edge		27 May 1886	30 March 1898[RES]	11 years, 308 days	Bar	--	[6]
5	Louis Addin Kershaw		6 April 1898	11 November 1898[§][c]	220 days	Bar	--	[7][8]
6	Arthur Strachey		12 November 1898	14 May 1901[†]	2 years, 184 days	Bombay	1895	[9]
7	John Stanley		17 August 1901	21 April 1911	9 years, 248 days	Calcutta	1898	[10][11]
8	Henry George Richards		21 April 1911	28 October 1919	8 years, 191 days	Allahabad	1905
9	Edward Grimwood Mears		29 October 1919	15 March 1932	12 years, 139 days	Bar	--
10	Shah Muhammad Sulaiman		16 March 1932	30 September 1937[‡][α]	5 years, 199 days	Allahabad	1923
11	John Gibb Thom		1 October 1937	19 February 1941[†]	3 years, 142 days	Bar	--
12	Iqbal Ahmad		21 July 1941	16 September 1946	5 years, 58 days	Allahabad	1933	[12][13]
13	Kamalkanta Verma		17 September 1946	14 October 1947[§][d]	1 year, 28 days	Allahabad	1937
14	Bidhu Bhushan Malik		15 October 1947	11 January 1955	7 years, 89 days	Allahabad	13 March 1944	[14]
15	Orby Howell Mootham		12 January 1955	16 February 1961	6 years, 36 days	Allahabad	22 July 1946
16	Manulal Chunilal Desai		17 February 1961	24 February 1966	5 years, 8 days	Allahabad	13 December 1948
17	Vashishtha Bhargava		25 February 1966	7 August 1966[‡]	164 days	Allahabad	1 August 1949
18	Mirza Nasirullah Beg		24 September 1966	3 June 1967	253 days	Allahabad	1 June 1951	[15]
19	Vidyadhar Govind Oak		4 June 1967	18 May 1971	3 years, 349 days	Allahabad	31 March 1955
20	Shashi Kanta Verma		19 May 1971	5 November 1973	2 years, 171 days	Allahabad	30 June 1958
21	Dhatri Saran Mathur		6 November 1973	13 November 1974	1 year, 8 days	Allahabad	15 January 1959
22	Kunwar Bahadur Asthana		13 November 1974	9 May 1977	2 years, 178 days	Allahabad	22 August 1961
23	Deshmudre Mallappa Chandrashekhar		10 May 1977	21 March 1978[§][e]	316 days
24	Satish Chandra		22 March 1978	28 November 1983[§][b]	5 years, 252 days	Allahabad	7 October 1963	[16]
25	Mahesh Narain Shukla		12 April 1985	5 October 1985	177 days	Allahabad	14 March 1969	[16]
26	Hridai Narain Seth		6 October 1985	17 August 1986[§][f]	316 days	Allahabad	7 July 1969
27	Kalmanje Jagannatha Shetty		1 October 1986	30 April 1987[‡]	212 days
28	Dwarka Nath Jha		14 July 1987	15 July 1987	2 days	Allahabad	6 August 1973	[17]
29	Amitav Banerji		26 April 1988	6 November 1988	195 days	Allahabad		[18]
30	Brahma Nath Katju		7 November 1988	22 May 1989	197 days	Allahabad
31	Benjaram Pranaya Jeevan Reddy		16 April 1990	6 October 1991[‡]	1 year, 174 days	Andhra Pradesh	17 July 1975
32	Manoj Kumar Mukherjee		12 November 1991	8 January 1993[§][c]	1 year, 58 days	Calcutta	17 June 1977
33	Sarvinder Singh Sodhi		29 April 1994	9 April 1995	346 days	Punjab & Haryana	18 June 1982
34	Ambati Lakshman Rao		10 April 1995	14 January 1996	280 days	Andhra Pradesh	10 December 1982
35	Deba Priya Mohapatra		16 February 1996	8 December 1998[‡]	2 years, 296 days	Orissa	18 November 1983
36	Nirendra Krishna Mitra		12 February 1999	17 April 2000	1 year, 66 days	Calcutta	20 December 1985
37	Shyamal Kumar Sen		18 July 2000	24 November 2002	2 years, 130 days	Calcutta	17 February 1986
38	Tarun Chatterjee		31 January 2003	26 August 2004[‡]	1 year, 209 days	Calcutta	6 August 1990
39	Ajoy Nath Ray		11 January 2005	26 January 2007[§][g]	2 years, 16 days	Calcutta
40	Hemant Laxman Gokhale		7 March 2007	8 March 2009[§][a]	2 years, 2 days	Bombay	20 January 1994
41	Chandramauli Kumar Prasad		20 March 2009	7 February 2010[‡]	325 days
42	Ferdino Inacio Rebello		26 June 2010	30 July 2011	1 year, 35 days	Bombay	15 April 1996
43	Syed Rafat Alam		5 August 2011[^][h]	7 August 2012	1 year, 3 days
44	Shiva Kirti Singh		4 February 2013	18 September 2013[‡]	227 days
45	Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud		31 October 2013	12 May 2016[‡]	2 years, 195 days	Bombay	29 March 2000
46	Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale		30 July 2016	23 October 2018	2 years, 86 days	Bombay	22 January 2001
47	Govind Mathur		14 November 2018	13 April 2021	2 years, 151 days
48	Sanjay Yadav		13 June 2021	25 June 2021	13 days	Madhya Pradesh	2 March 2007
49	Rajesh Bindal		11 October 2021	12 February 2023[‡]	1 year, 125 days	Punjab & Haryana	22 March 2006
50	Pritinker Diwaker		26 March 2023	21 November 2023	241 days
51	Arun Bhansali		5 February 2024	Incumbent	2 years, 44 days		8 January 2013

Acting Chief Justices

Name	From	To	Tenure	Appointed due to	Ref..
Iqbal Ahmad	20 February 1941	20 July 1941[β][i]	151 days	Death of CJ John Gibb Thom	[12][13]
Mirza Nasirullah Beg	8 August 1966	23 September 1966[β][i]	47 days	Elevation of CJ V. Bhargava to Supreme Court	[15]
Mahesh Narain Shukla	29 November 1983	11 April 1985[β][i]	1 year, 134 days	Transfer of CJ Satish Chandra to Calcutta	[16]
N. D. Ojha	18 August 1986	30 September 1986	44 days	Transfer of CJ Hridai Narain Seth to Punjab & Haryana	[19]
Amitav Banerji	16 July 1987	25 April 1988[β][i]	285 days	Retirement of CJ Dwarka Nath Jha	[18]
K. C. Agarwal	23 May 1989	15 April 1990[β][j]	328 days	Retirement of CJ B. N. Katju	[20][21]
Satish Chandra Mathur	8 January 1993	12 October 1993[β][k]	277 days	Transfer of CJ M. K. Mukherjee to Bombay	[22]
Viney Krishna Khanna	13 October 1993	23 April 1994[β][l]	193 days	Elevation of ACJ S. C. Mathur as 16th CJ of Jammu & Kashmir
V. N. Khare	15 January 1996	1 February 1996[β][m]	18 days	Retirement of CJ A. L. Rao	[23]
Brijesh Kumar	9 December 1998	11 February 1999[β][l]	65 days	Elevation of CJ D. P. Mohapatra to Supreme Court	[24]
D. S. Sinha	18 April 2000	7 May 2000	20 days	Retirement of CJ N. K. Mitra	[25]
S. K. Sen	8 May 2000	17 July 2000[β][i]	71 days	Transferred as ACJ
Govind Prasad Mathur	25 November 2002	19 December 2002[‡]	25 days	Retirement of CJ S. K. Sen	[26]
Satya Prakash Srivastava	20 December 2002	30 January 2003	42 days	Elevation of ACJ Govind Prasad Mathur to Supreme Court	[27]
Markandey Katju	27 August 2004	27 November 2004[β][n]	93 days	Elevation of CJ Tarun Chatterjee to Supreme Court	[28]
Vishnu Sahai	28 November 2004	29 December 2004	32 days	Elevation of ACJ Markandey Katju as 32nd CJ of Madras	[29]
Syed Rafat Alam	30 December 2004	10 January 2005	12 days	Retirement of ACJ Vishnu Sahai	[30]
	27 January 2007	6 March 2007	39 days	Transfer of CJ A. N. Ray to Sikkim
	9 March 2009	19 March 2009	11 days	Transfer of CJ H. L. Gokhale to Madras
Amitava Lala	8 February 2010	25 June 2010	138 days	Elevation of CJ C. K. Prasad to Supreme Court	[31]
	31 July 2011	4 August 2011	5 days	Retirement of CJ F. I. Rebello
	8 August 2012	19 November 2012	104 days	Retirement of CJ S. R. Alam
S. K. Singh	20 November 2012	3 February 2013[β][i]	76 days	Retirement of ACJ Amitava Lala	[32]
L. K. Mohapatra	19 September 2013	20 October 2013	32 days	Elevation of CJ S. K. Singh to Supreme Court	[33]
Sheo Kumar Singh	21 October 2013	30 October 2013	10 days	Transfer of ACJ L. K. Mohapatra as ACJ of Manipur	[34]
Vimlesh Kumar Shukla	13 May 2016	29 July 2016	78 days	Elevation of CJ D. Y. Chandrachud to Supreme Court	[35]
Govind Mathur	24 October 2018	13 November 2018[β][i]	21 days	Retirement of CJ D. B. Bhosale
Sanjay Yadav	14 April 2021	12 June 2021[β][i]	60 days	Retirement of CJ Govind Mathur
M. N. Bhandari	26 June 2021	10 October 2021	107 days	Retirement of CJ Sanjay Yadav
Pritinker Diwaker	13 February 2023	25 March 2023[β][i]	41 days	Elevation of CJ Rajesh Bindal to Supreme Court
M. K. Gupta	22 November 2023	4 February 2024	75 days	Retirement of CJ Pritinker Diwaker

The Andhra Pradesh High Court was established on 1 January 2019 under the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 and has had 4 Chief Justices^[36] excluding Acting Chief Justices.^[37]

Permanent Chief Justices

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment
1	Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari		7 October 2019	5 January 2021[§][a]	1 year, 91 days	Madhya Pradesh	25 November 2005
2	Arup Kumar Goswami		6 January 2021[^][b]	12 October 2021[§][c]	280 days
3	Prashant Kumar Mishra		13 October 2021	18 May 2023[‡]	1 year, 218 days
4	Dhiraj Singh Thakur		28 July 2023	Incumbent	2 years, 236 days		8 March 2013

Acting Chief Justices

Name	From	To	Tenure	Appointed due to	Ref..
C. Praveen Kumar	1 January 2019	6 October 2019	280 days	Creation of New HC	[38]
A. V. Sesha Sai	19 May 2023	27 July 2023	70 days	Elevation of CJ P. K. Mishra to Supreme Court	[39]

The Bombay High Court was established on 14 August 1862 under the Indian High Courts Act 1861 and has had 49 Chief Justices^[40] excluding Acting Chief Justices.^[41]

Permanent Chief Justices

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment	Ref..
1	Matthew Richard Sausse		14 August 1862	1866		Bar	--	[42]
2	Richard Couch		3 March 1866	25 April 1870[§][a]	4 years, 54 days	Bombay	14 August 1862	[43]
3	Michael Roberts Westropp		1870	1882		Bombay	1863
4	Charles Sargent		1882	July 1895		Bombay	1866
5	Charles Frederick Farran		July 1895	9 September 1898[†]		Bombay	1890	[44]
6	Louis Addin Kershaw		12 November 1898[^][b]	17 February 1899[†]	98 days	Bar	--	[8][45]
7	Lawrence Hugh Jenkins		20 April 1899	14 March 1909[§][a]	9 years, 329 days	Calcutta	24 April 1896	[46]
8	Basil Scott		1909	1919		Bar	--
9	Norman Cranstoun Macleod		1919	1926		Bombay	1910
10	Amberson Barrington Marten		June 1926	17 June 1930[RES]		Bombay	1916	[47]
11	John William Fisher Beaumont		20 June 1930	29 September 1943	13 years, 102 days	Bar	--
12	Leonard Stone		30 September 1943	15 August 1947[RES]	3 years, 320 days	Bar	--
13	Mahommedali Currim Chagla		3 January 1948	26 October 1958[RES]	10 years, 291 days	Bombay	5 August 1941
14	Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani		27 October 1958	28 November 1965[†]	7 years, 33 days	Bombay	28 August 1948
15	Yeshwant Shripad Tambe		7 February 1966	31 July 1966	175 days	Nagpur[β]	8 February 1954	[48]
16	Sohrab Peshotan Kotval		1 August 1966	27 September 1972	6 years, 58 days	Nagpur[β]	18 August 1955	[49]
17	Kapil Kalyandas Desai		28 September 1972	27 October 1972	30 days	Bombay	18 August 1958
18	Ramanlal Maneklal Kantawala		28 October 1972	5 October 1978	5 years, 343 days	Bombay	9 February 1962
19	Balkrishna Narhar Deshmukh		6 October 1978	18 November 1980	2 years, 44 days	Bombay	7 June 1965
20	Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande		12 January 1981	10 August 1982	1 year, 211 days	Bombay	11 June 1967
21	Dinshah Pirosha Madon		31 August 1982	14 March 1983[‡]	196 days	Bombay	25 September 1967
22	Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar		15 March 1983	2 April 1984[§][c]	1 year, 19 days	Bombay	28 October 1967
23	Konda Madhava Reddy		8 April 1984[^][d]	21 October 1985	1 year, 197 days	Andhra Pradesh	28 May 1968
24	Madhukar Hiralal Kania		23 June 1986	30 April 1987[‡]	312 days	Bombay	4 November 1969	[50]
25	Chittatosh Mookerjee		2 November 1987[^][e]	1 January 1991	3 years, 61 days	Calcutta	2 April 1969
26	Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai		7 January 1991[^][e]	14 December 1992	1 year, 343 days
27	Manoj Kumar Mukherjee		9 January 1993[^][b]	14 December 1993[‡]	340 days	Calcutta	17 June 1977
28	Sujata Manohar		15 January 1994	20 April 1994[§][f]	96 days	Bombay	23 January 1978
29	Anandamoy Bhattacharjee		21 April 1994[^][e]	1 April 1995[RES]	346 days	Sikkim	16 June 1976
30	Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah		2 August 1995	8 December 1998[‡]	3 years, 129 days
31	Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal		3 February 1999	28 January 2000[‡]	360 days
32	Bisheshwar Prasad Singh		31 March 2000	13 December 2001[‡]	1 year, 258 days
33	Chunilal Karsandas Thakker		31 December 2001[^][g]	6 June 2004[‡]	2 years, 159 days
34	Dalveer Bhandari		25 July 2004	27 October 2005[‡]	1 year, 95 days
35	Kshitij Rameshbhai Vyas		25 February 2006	18 July 2006	144 days
36	Harjit Singh Bedi		3 October 2006	11 January 2007[‡]	101 days	Punjab & Haryana	15 March 1991
37	Swatanter Kumar		31 March 2007	17 December 2009[‡]	2 years, 262 days
38	Anil Ramesh Dave		11 February 2010[^][d]	29 April 2010[‡]	78 days
39	Mohit Shantilal Shah		26 June 2010[^][e]	8 September 2015	5 years, 75 days
40	Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela		15 February 2016[^][h]	10 August 2016	178 days
41	Manjula Chellur		22 August 2016[^][e]	4 December 2017	1 year, 105 days
42	Naresh Harishchandra Patil		29 October 2018	6 April 2019	160 days	Bombay	12 October 2001
43	Pradeep Nandrajog		7 April 2019[^][i]	23 February 2020	323 days
44	Bhushan Pradyumna Dharmadhikari		20 March 2020	27 April 2020	39 days	Bombay	15 March 2004
45	Dipankar Datta		28 April 2020	11 December 2022[‡]	2 years, 228 days	Calcutta	22 June 2006
46	Ramesh Deokinandan Dhanuka		28 May 2023	30 May 2023	3 days	Bombay	23 January 2012
47	Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya		29 July 2023	20 January 2025[§][j]	1 year, 176 days	Allahabad	21 November 2011
48	Alok Aradhe		21 January 2025[^][k]	28 August 2025[‡]	220 days	Madhya Pradesh	29 December 2009
49	Shree Chandrashekhar		5 September 2025	Incumbent	197 days		17 January 2013

Website of Maharashtra Judicial Academy contains list of its former patron in chiefs who always had been the chief justice of Bombay High Court (whether acting or permanent). Thus the list contained in this website would serve as primary reference for acting chief justices after 2009.^[51]

Acting Chief Justices

Name	From	To	Tenure	Appointed due to	Ref..
M. C. Chagla	16 August 1947	2 January 1948[β][l]	140 days	Resignation of CJ Leonard Stone
Y. S. Tambe	28 November 1965	6 February 1966[β][l]	71 days	Death of CJ H. K. Chainani	[48]
V. S. Deshpande	19 November 1980	11 January 1981[β][l]	54 days	Retirement of CJ B. N. Deshmukh
D. P. Madon	11 August 1982	30 August 1982[β][l]	20 days	Retirement of CJ V. S. Deshpande
M. H. Kania	2 April 1984	7 April 1984	6 days	Transfer of CJ M. N. Chandurkar to Madras	[52]
	22 October 1985	22 June 1986[β][l]	241 days	Retirement of CJ K. M. Reddy	[50]
Sharadchandra Krishnaprasd Desai	1 May 1987	2 September 1987	125 days	Elevation of CJ M. H. Kania to Supreme Court
C. S. Dharmadhikari	3 September 1987	1 November 1987	60 days	Appointment of ACJ S. K. Desai as Acting Governor of Maharashtra
Subhash Chhaganlal Pratap	1 January 1991	6 January 1991	6 days	Retirement of CJ Chittatosh Mookerjee	[53]
Sujata Manohar	15 December 1992	8 January 1993	25 days	Retirement of CJ P. D. Desai	[54]
	15 December 1993	14 January 1994[β][l]	31 days	Elevation of CJ M. K. Mukherjee to Supreme Court
Madhav Laxman Pendse	1 April 1995	27 July 1995[β][m]	118 days	Resignation of CJ A. M. Bhattacharjee	[55]
A. C. Agarwal	9 December 1998	2 February 1999	56 days	Elevation of CJ M. B. Shah to Supreme Court	[56]
Manohar Bansiji Ghodeswar	29 January 2000	13 February 2000	16 days	Elevation of CJ Y. K. Sabharwal to Supreme Court	[57]
Bhagwati Prasad Saraf	14 February 2000	20 February 2000[β][n]	7 days	Retirement of ACJ M. B. Ghodeswar	[58]
Niranjan Janmashanker Pandya	21 February 2000	30 March 2000	39 days	Elevation of ACJ B. P. Saraf as 20th CJ of Jammu & Kashmir	[59]
Gulabrao Deorao Patil	14 December 2001	30 December 2001	17 days	Elevation of CJ B. P. Singh to Supreme Court	[60]
A. P. Shah	7 June 2004	24 July 2004	48 days	Elevation of CJ C. K. Thakker to Supreme Court	[61]
Vishwanath Gopal Palshikar	28 October 2005	24 February 2006	120 days	Elevation of CJ Dalveer Bhandari to Supreme Court	[62]
	19 July 2006	2 October 2006	76 days	Retirement of CJ K. R. Vyas
H. L. Gokhale	12 January 2007	6 March 2007[β][o]	54 days	Elevation of CJ H. S. Bedi to Supreme Court	[63]
Jai Narayan Patel	18 December 2009	10 February 2010	55 days	Elevation of CJ Swatanter Kumar to Supreme Court
	30 April 2010	25 June 2010[β][p]	57 days	Elevation of CJ A. R. Dave to Supreme Court
V. K. Tahilramani	9 September 2015	14 February 2016	159 days	Retirement of CJ M. S. Shah
	11 August 2016	21 August 2016	11 days	Retirement of CJ D. H. Waghela
	5 December 2017	11 August 2018[β][q]	250 days	Retirement of CJ Manjula Chellur
N. H. Patil	12 August 2018	28 October 2018[β][l]	78 days	Elevation of ACJ V. K. Tahilramani as 40th CJ of Madras
B. P. Dharmadhikari	24 February 2020	19 March 2020[β][l]	25 days	Retirement of CJ Pradeep Nandrajog
S. V. Gangapurwala	12 December 2022	27 May 2023[β][q]	167 days	Elevation of CJ Dipankar Datta to Supreme Court
N. M. Jamdar	31 May 2023	28 July 2023	59 days	Retirement of CJ R. D. Dhanuka
Shree Chandrashekhar	29 August 2025	4 September 2025[β][l]	7 days	Elevation of CJ Alok Aradhe to Supreme Court

The Calcutta High Court was established on 1 July 1862 under the Indian High Courts Act 1861 and has had 44 Chief Justices excluding Acting Chief Justices.

Permanent Chief Justices

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment	Ref..
1	Barnes Peacock		1 July 1862	26 April 1870[RES]	7 years, 300 days	Bar	--	[64]
2	Richard Couch		26 April 1870[^][a]	5 April 1875[RES]	4 years, 345 days	Bombay	14 August 1862
3	Richard Garth		6 April 1875	26 February 1886	10 years, 327 days	Bar	--	[65]
4	William Comer Petheram		24 March 1886[^][b]	November 1896		Bar	--	[5]
5	Francis William Maclean		1896	March 1909		Bar	--
6	Lawrence Hugh Jenkins		19 April 1909[^][a]	13 November 1915	6 years, 209 days	Calcutta	24 April 1896	[46][66]
7	Lancelot Sanderson		13 November 1915	November 1926		Bar	--	[66]
8	George Claus Rankin		1926	1934		Calcutta	1918
9	Harold Derbyshire		22 October 1934	1946		Bar	--	[67]
10	Arthur Trevor Harries		1946[^][c]	12 June 1952		Allahabad	1934	[46]
11	Phani Bhusan Chakravartti		13 June 1952	11 October 1958	6 years, 121 days	Calcutta	April 1945
12	Kulada Charan Das Gupta		12 October 1958	17 August 1959[‡]	310 days	Calcutta	June 1948	[68]
13	Surajit Chandra Lahiri		17 August 1959	10 June 1961	1 year, 298 days	Calcutta	3 January 1949	[69]
14	Himansu Kumar Bose		10 June 1961	1 March 1966	4 years, 265 days	Calcutta	8 December 1949	[70]
15	Deep Narayan Sinha		1 March 1966	14 January 1970	3 years, 320 days	Calcutta	3 July 1950	[71]
16	Prasanta Bihari Mukharji		15 January 1970	30 July 1972	2 years, 198 days	Calcutta	3 January 1949
17	Sankar Prasad Mitra		31 July 1972	25 December 1979	7 years, 148 days	Calcutta	23 December 1957
18	Amarendra Nath Sen		26 December 1979	27 January 1981[‡]	1 year, 33 days	Calcutta	15 November 1965
19	Sambhu Chandra Ghose		28 January 1981	31 December 1982	1 year, 338 days	Calcutta	25 July 1966	[72]
20	Samarendra Chandra Deb		1 January 1983	28 February 1983	59 days	Calcutta	7 May 1968	[73]
21	Satish Chandra		29 November 1983[^][b]	1 September 1986	2 years, 277 days	Allahabad	7 October 1963	[16]
22	Anil Kumar Sen		2 September 1986	31 October 1986	60 days	Calcutta	8 November 1968
23	Chittatosh Mookerjee		1 November 1986	1 November 1987[§][d]	1 year, 1 day	Calcutta	2 April 1969
24	Debi Singh Tewatia		2 November 1987[^][e]	2 May 1988[RES]	183 days	Punjab & Haryana	6 February 1970
25	Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai		14 November 1988[^][f]	6 January 1991[§][d]	2 years, 54 days
26	Nagendra Prasad Singh		4 February 1992	14 June 1992[‡]	132 days
27	Anandamoy Bhattacharjee		25 January 1993	20 April 1994[§][d]	1 year, 86 days	Sikkim	16 June 1976	[74]
28	Krishna Chandra Agarwal		21 April 1994[^][g]	15 January 1996	1 year, 270 days	Allahabad	6 August 1973
29	Vishweshwar Nath Khare		2 February 1996	20 March 1997[‡]	1 year, 47 days	Allahabad	25 June 1983
30	Prabha Shankar Mishra		28 October 1997[^][h]	5 July 1998[RES]	251 days
31	Ashok Kumar Mathur		22 December 1999[^][i]	6 June 2004[‡]	4 years, 168 days
32	Vikas Sridhar Sirpurkar		20 March 2005[^][j]	11 January 2007[‡]	1 year, 298 days	Bombay	9 November 1992
33	Surinder Singh Nijjar		7 March 2007	16 November 2009[‡]	2 years, 255 days	Punjab & Haryana	8 April 1996
34	Mohit Shantilal Shah		24 December 2009	25 June 2010[§][d]	184 days
35	Jai Narayan Patel		26 June 2010	4 October 2012	2 years, 101 days	Bombay	11 March 1996
36	Arun Kumar Mishra		14 December 2012[^][g]	6 July 2014[‡]	1 year, 205 days	Madhya Pradesh	25 October 1999
37	Manjula Chellur		6 August 2014[^][k]	21 August 2016[§][d]	2 years, 16 days
38	Girish Chandra Gupta		21 September 2016	30 November 2016	71 days	Calcutta	15 September 2000
39	Jyotirmay Bhattacharya		1 May 2018	24 September 2018	147 days	Calcutta	3 December 2003
40	Debasish Kar Gupta		30 October 2018	31 December 2018	63 days	Calcutta	22 June 2006
41	Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan		4 April 2019[^][l]	28 April 2021	2 years, 25 days	Kerala	14 October 2004
42	Prakash Shrivastava		11 October 2021	30 March 2023	1 year, 171 days	Madhya Pradesh	18 January 2008
43	Tirunelveli Subbiah Sivagnanam		11 May 2023	15 September 2025	2 years, 128 days
44	Sujoy Paul		16 January 2026	Incumbent	64 days	Madhya Pradesh	27 May 2011

Acting Chief Justices

Name	From	To	Tenure	Appointed due to	Ref..
Sabyasachi Mukharji	1 March 1983	14 March 1983[‡]	14 days	Retirement of CJ S. C. Deb	[75]
Anandamoy Bhattacharjee	15 June 1992	24 January 1993[β][m]	224 days	Elevation of CJ Nagendra Prasad Singh to Supreme Court	[74]
Shyamal Kumar Sen	29 April 1999	17 May 1999	19 days	Resignation/ Retirement or Transfer of the then ACJ	[76]
	5 December 1999	21 December 1999	17 days	Reverted from position of Acting Governor to ACJ
S. B. Sinha	18 May 1999	4 December 1999	201 days	Appointment of ACJ S. K. Sen as Acting Governor of West Bengal	[77]
A. N. Ray	7 June 2004	10 January 2005[β][n]	218 days	Elevation of CJ A. K. Mathur to Supreme Court	[78]
Altamas Kabir	11 January 2005	28 February 2005[β][o]	49 days	Elevation of ACJ A. N. Ray as 38th CJ of Allahabad	[79]
A. K. Ganguly	1 March 2005	19 March 2005	19 days	Elevation of ACJ Altamas Kabir as 3rd CJ of Jharkhand	[80]
Bhaskar Bhattacharya	12 January 2007	6 March 2007	54 days	Elevation of CJ V. S. Sirpurkar to Supreme Court	[81]
	17 November 2009	23 December 2009	37 days	Elevation of CJ S. S. Nijjar to Supreme Court	[82]
K. J. Sengupta	5 October 2012	30 October 2012	26 days	Retirement of CJ J. N. Patel	[83]
Pratap Kumar Ray	31 October 2012	14 December 2012	45 days	Transfer of ACJ K. J. Sengupta as Judge to Uttarakhand	[84]
Ashim Kumar Banerjee	7 July 2014	5 August 2014	30 days	Elevation of CJ A. K. Mishra to Supreme Court	[85]
G. C. Gupta	22 August 2016	20 September 2016[β][m]	30 days	Transfer of CJ Manjula Chellur to Bombay
N. N. Mhatre	1 December 2016	19 September 2017	293 days	Retirement of CJ G. C. Gupta
Rakesh Tiwari	20 September 2017	24 October 2017	35 days	Retirement of ACJ N. N. Mhatre	[86]
J. M. Bhattacharya	25 October 2017	30 April 2018[β][m]	188 days	Retirement of ACJ Rakesh Tiwari
D. K. Gupta	25 September 2018	29 October 2018[β][m]	35 days	Retirement of CJ J. M. Bhattacharya
Biswanath Somadder	1 January 2019	3 April 2019	93 days	Retirement of CJ D. K. Gupta
Rajesh Bindal	28 April 2021	10 October 2021[β][n]	166 days	Retirement of CJ T. B. Radhakrishnan
T. S. Sivagnanam	31 March 2023	10 May 2023[β][m]	41 days	Retirement of CJ Prakash Shrivastava
Soumen Sen	16 September 2025	7 October 2025[β][p]	22 days	Retirement of CJ T. S. Sivagnanam
Sujoy Paul	8 October 2025	15 January 2026[β][m]	100 days	Elevation of ACJ Soumen Sen as 14th CJ of Meghalaya

The Chhattisgarh High Court was established on 1 November 2000 under the Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 and has had 15 Chief Justices^[87] excluding Acting Chief Justices.^[88]

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Total tenure[a][b]	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment	Remarks	Ref..
--	R. S. Garg		1 November 2000	4 December 2000	34 days
1	Wungazan Awungshi Shishak		5 December 2000	15 January 2002	1 year, 42 days				Transferred to Himachal Pradesh
--	Fakhruddin		16 January 2002	5 February 2002	21 days					[89]
2	Korategere Hanumanthayya Narasimha Kuranga		6 February 2002	10 May 2004	2 years, 95 days
3	Ayyampalayam Somasundaram Venkatachala Moorthy		28 May 2004	7 January 2005	225 days
4	Ananga Kumar Patnaik		14 March 2005	1 October 2005	202 days		Orissa	13 January 1994	Transferred to Madhya Pradesh
5	Subray Rama Nayak		17 November 2005	31 December 2006	1 year, 45 days
6	Handyala Lalshminarayanaswamy Dattu		12 February 2007	17 May 2007	95 days				Transferred to Kerala
--	Jagadish Bhalla		19 May 2007	1 February 2008	259 days				Transferred as 19th CJ of Himachal Pradesh	[90]
7	Rajeev Gupta		2 February 2008	9 October 2012	4 years, 251 days		Madhya Pradesh	27 September 1994
8	Yatindra Singh		22 October 2012	8 October 2014	1 year, 352 days		Allahabad	5 February 1999
9	Navin Sinha		9 October 2014 Permanent from 9 April 2015	13 May 2016	1 year, 35 days	1 year, 218 days			ACJ: (9 October 2014 – 8 April 2015) Transferred to Rajasthan	[91]
10	Deepak Gupta		16 May 2016	16 February 2017	277 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Pritinker Diwaker		17 February 2017	17 March 2017	29 days
11	Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan		18 March 2017	6 July 2018	1 year, 111 days		Kerala	14 October 2004	Transferred to Telangana
12	Ajay Kumar Tripathi		7 July 2018	26 March 2019	263 days
--	P. K. Mishra		27 March 2019	5 May 2019	40 days					[92]
13	Parappillil Ramakrishnan Nair Ramachandra Menon		6 May 2019	31 May 2021	2 years, 26 days		Kerala	5 January 2009
--	P. K. Mishra		1 June 2021	11 October 2021	133 days	173 days[c]			Transferred as 3rd CJ of Andhra Pradesh
14	Arup Kumar Goswami		12 October 2021	10 March 2023	1 year, 150 days
--	Goutam Bhaduri		11 March 2023	28 March 2023	18 days					[93]
15	Ramesh Sinha		29 March 2023	Incumbent	2 years, 357 days		Allahabad	21 November 2011

The Delhi High Court was established on 31 October 1966 under Delhi High Court Act, 1966 and has had 34 Chief Justices^[94] excluding Acting Chief Justices.^[95]

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Total tenure[a][b]	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment	Remarks	Ref..
1	Kowdoor Sadananda Hegde		31 October 1966	16 July 1967	259 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
2	Inder Dev Dua		17 July 1967	31 July 1969	2 years, 15 days		Punjab & Haryana	11 August 1958	Elevated to Supreme Court
3	Hans Raj Khanna		1 August 1969	22 September 1971	2 years, 53 days		Punjab & Haryana	7 May 1962	Elevated to Supreme Court
4	Hardayal Hardy		23 September 1971	14 May 1972	235 days
5	Narain Andley		15 May 1972	3 June 1974	2 years, 20 days
6	T. V. R. Tatachari		4 June 1974	15 October 1978	4 years, 134 days
7	Vasant Shamrao Deshpande		16 October 1978	26 June 1980	1 year, 255 days
8	Prakash Narain		27 June 1980 Permanent from 8 January 1981	5 August 1985	4 years, 210 days	5 years, 40 days			ACJ: (27 June 1980 – 7 January 1981)	[96]
9	Rajinder Sachar		6 August 1985	21 December 1985	138 days
10	Dalip Kumar Kapur		22 December 1985	19 August 1986	241 days
11	Tejinder Pal Singh Chawla		20 August 1986 Permanent from 26 September 1986	15 August 1987	324 days	361 days			ACJ: (20 August 1986 – 25 September 1986)	[96]
12	Rajendra Nath Aggarwal		16 August 1987	21 August 1987	6 days
13	Yogeshwar Dayal		21 August 1987	18 March 1988	211 days				Transferred to Undivided Andhra Pradesh
14	Rabindranth Pyne		20 May 1988	8 October 1990	2 years, 142 days		Calcutta	6 March 1974
--	Leila Seth		9 October 1990	27 November 1990	50 days
15	Milap Chand Jain		28 November 1990	21 July 1991	236 days
--	Leila Seth		22 July 1991	4 August 1991	14 days	64 days			Elevated as 8th CJ of Himachal Pradesh	[97]
16	Gokal Chand Mittal		5 August 1991	11 April 1994	2 years, 250 days		Punjab & Haryana	19 February 1979	Transferred to Rajasthan
17	Mamidanna Jagannadha Rao		12 April 1994	20 March 1997	2 years, 343 days		Andhra Pradesh	29 November 1982	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Mahinder Narain		21 March 1997	25 June 1997	97 days
18	Ajay Prakash Misra		26 June 1997	3 December 1997	161 days		Allahabad	24 May 1984	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Mahinder Narain		4 December 1997	18 September 1998	289 days				Took leave	[98]
--	Y. K. Sabharwal		19 September 1998	9 December 1998	82 days					[97]
--	Mahinder Narain		10 December 1998	17 January 1999	39 days	1 year, 60 days			Took leave and subsequently died
--	Y. K. Sabharwal		18 January 1999	2 February 1999	16 days	98 days			Transferred as 31st CJ of Bombay
--	Devinder Gupta		3 February 1999	24 May 1999	111 days
19	Sam Nariman Variava		25 May 1999	14 March 2000	295 days		Bombay	21 November 1986	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Devinder Gupta		15 March 2000	9 May 2000	56 days
20	Arijit Pasayat		10 May 2000	18 October 2001	1 year, 162 days		Orissa	20 March 1989	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Devinder Gupta		19 October 2001	25 November 2001	38 days
21	Satyabrata Sinha		26 November 2001	2 October 2002	311 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Devinder Gupta		2 October 2002	4 March 2003	154 days	359 days			Transferred as CJ of Undivided Andhra Pradesh	[99]
22	Babulal Chandulal Patel		5 March 2003	7 August 2005	2 years, 156 days
--	B. A. Khan		8 August 2005	11 October 2005	65 days					[100]
23	Markandey Katju		12 October 2005	9 April 2006	180 days		Allahabad	30 November 1991	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Vijender Jain		10 April 2006	27 November 2006	232 days				Transferred as 27th CJ of Punjab & Haryana	[101]
24	Mukundakam Sharma		28 November 2006 Permanent from 4 December 2006	8 April 2008	1 year, 127 days	1 year, 133 days			ACJ: (28 November 2006 – 3 December 2006) Elevated to Supreme Court	[102]
--	T. S. Thakur		9 April 2008	10 May 2008	32 days					[103]
25	Ajit Prakash Shah		11 May 2008	12 February 2010	1 year, 278 days		Bombay	18 December 1992
--	M. B. Lokur		13 February 2010	23 May 2010	100 days					[104]
26	Dipak Misra		24 May 2010	9 October 2011	1 year, 139 days		Orissa	17 January 1996	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	A. K. Sikri		10 October 2011	22 September 2012	349 days				Transferred as 31st CJ of Punjab & Haryana	[105]
--	S. K. Kaul		23 September 2012	25 September 2012	3 days					[106]
27	Darmar Murugesan		26 September 2012	10 June 2013	258 days
--	B. D. Ahmed		11 June 2013	1 September 2013	83 days					[107]
28	Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana		2 September 2013	16 February 2014	168 days		Andhra Pradesh	27 June 2000	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	B. D. Ahmed		17 February 2014	20 April 2014	63 days	146 days[d]				[107]
29	Gorla Rohini		21 April 2014	13 April 2017	2 years, 358 days		Andhra Pradesh	25 June 2001
--	Gita Mittal		14 April 2017	8 August 2018	1 year, 117 days				Transferred as 33rd CJ of Jammu & Kashmir	[108]
30	Rajendra Menon		9 August 2018	6 June 2019	302 days		Madhya Pradesh	1 April 2002
31	Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel		7 June 2019	12 March 2022	2 years, 279 days
--	Vipin Sanghi		13 March 2022	27 June 2022	107 days				Transferred as 12th CJ of Uttarakhand	[109]
32	Satish Chandra Sharma		28 June 2022	8 November 2023	1 year, 134 days		Madhya Pradesh	18 January 2008	Elevated to Supreme Court
33	Manmohan		9 November 2023 Permanent from 29 September 2024	4 December 2024	67 days	1 year, 26 days			ACJ: (9 November 2023 – 28 September 2024) Elevated to Supreme Court	[110]
--	Vibhu Bakhru		5 December 2024	20 January 2025	47 days
34	Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya		21 January 2025	Incumbent	1 year, 59 days		Allahabad	21 November 2011

The Gauhati High Court was established on 1 March 1948 under the Government of India Act 1935 and has had 43 Chief Justices^[111] excluding Acting Chief Justices.^[112]

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Total tenure[a][b]	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment	Remarks	Ref..
1	Ronald Francis Lodge		5 April 1948	7 April 1949	1 year, 3 days		Calcutta	1941
2	Thakurdas Vasanmal Thadani		8 April 1949	21 November 1952	3 years, 228 days
--	Ram Labhaya		22 November 1952	9 February 1953	80 days					[113]
3	Sarjoo Prasad		10 February 1953	20 February 1959	6 years, 11 days				Transferred to Rajasthan
4	Chandreswar Prasad Sinha		21 February 1959	31 January 1961	1 year, 346 days
5	Holiram Deka		1 February 1961	29 June 1961	149 days
6	Gopalji Mehrotra		30 June 1961	6 February 1967	5 years, 222 days		Allahabad	6 May 1954
7	Canakapalli Sanjeevrow Nayudu		7 February 1967	7 March 1968	1 year, 30 days		Andhra Pradesh	13 March 1958		[83]
8	Sarat Kumar Dutta		8 March 1968	30 January 1970	1 year, 329 days
9	Parbati Kumar Goswami		31 January 1970	9 September 1973	3 years, 222 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
10	Mahendra Chandra Pathak		10 September 1973 Permanent from 9 January 1974	30 June 1977	3 years, 173 days	3 years, 294 days			ACJ: (10 September 1973 – 8 January 1974)	[114]
11	M. Sadanand Swami		1 July 1977 Permanent from 1 October 1977	5 July 1978	278 days	1 year, 5 days			ACJ: (1 July 1977 – 30 September 1977)
12	Chand Mal Lodha		6 July 1978	10 March 1979	248 days				Transferred to Rajasthan
13	Baharul Islam		11 March 1979 Permanent from 7 July 1979	1 March 1980	239 days	357 days			ACJ: (11 March 1979 – 6 July 1979) Elevated to Supreme Court on 4 December 1980 after retirement	[115]
14	Dambarudhar Pathak		2 March 1980 Permanent from 18 April 1983	8 August 1983	113 days	3 years, 160 days			ACJ : (2 March 1980 – 17 April 1983) Transferred to Orissa
15	Tribeni Sahai Misra		12 August 1983	14 November 1984	1 year, 95 days		Allahabad	3 September 1971
--	K. M. Lahiri		15 November 1984	29 September 1985	319 days					[116]
16	Palem Chennakesava Reddy		30 September 1985	2 November 1986	1 year, 34 days		Andhra Pradesh	10 May 1972
17	Kiranmoy Lahiri		3 November 1986	19 December 1986	47 days	1 year, 1 day[e]
18	Khagendra Nath Saikia		20 December 1986 Permanent from 14 June 1987	28 February 1988	260 days	1 year, 71 days			ACJ: (20 December 1986 – 13 June 1987) Elevated to Supreme Court on 14 December 1988 after retirement	[117]
19	Guman Mal Lodha		1 March 1988	15 March 1988	15 days
20	Anisetti Raghuvir		6 May 1988	21 March 1991	2 years, 320 days		Andhra Pradesh	17 October 1974
21	Ullal Lakshminarayana Bhat		20 August 1991	12 December 1993	2 years, 115 days		Kerala	18 September 1980	Transferred to Madhya Pradesh
22	Rajkumar Manisana Singh		12 December 1993 Permanent from 27 January 1994	1 February 1994	6 days	52 days			ACJ: (12 December 1993 – 26 January 1994)
23	Viney Krishna Khanna		24 April 1994	14 February 1997	2 years, 297 days		Allahabad	2 July 1979
24	M. Ramakrishna		18 June 1997	12 April 1998	299 days
25	Brijesh Kumar		12 February 1999	18 October 2000	1 year, 250 days		Allahabad	24 May 1984	Elevated to Supreme Court
26	Nareesh Chandra Jain		19 October 2000	5 April 2001	169 days
--	H. K. Sema		5 April 2001	6 June 2001	63 days				Transferred as Judge to Jammu & Kashmir	[118]
27	Ravinder Singh Mongia		21 June 2001 Permanent from 21 September 2001	9 June 2002	262 days	354 days	Punjab & Haryana	15 June 1990	ACJ: (21 June 2001 – 20 September 2001)
28	Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar		10 June 2002	26 August 2004	2 years, 78 days		Madhya Pradesh	15 June 1992	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Dinendra Biswas		27 August 2004	28 March 2005	214 days					[113]
29	Binod Kumar Roy		21 May 2005	29 September 2005	132 days				Transferred to Sikkim
--	Dinendra Biswas		30 September 2005	4 December 2005	66 days
30	Buchireddy Sudarshan Reddy		5 December 2005	11 January 2007	1 year, 38 days		Andhra Pradesh	2 May 1995	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Dinendra Biswas		12 January 2007	2 May 2007	111 days	1 year, 26 days[f]
31	Jasti Chelameswar		3 May 2007	16 March 2010	2 years, 318 days		Andhra Pradesh	23 June 1997	Transferred to Kerala
--	Ranjan Gogoi		17 March 2010	16 April 2010	31 days					[119]
32	Ramesh Surajmal Garg		17 April 2010	18 June 2010	63 days		Madhya Pradesh	15 December 1994
--	Ranjan Gogoi		18 June 2010	23 June 2010	6 days					[120]
33	Madan Lokur		24 June 2010	14 November 2011	1 year, 145 days				Transferred to Undivided Andhra Pradesh
--	A. K. Goel		15 November 2011	19 December 2011	35 days					[121]
34	Adarsh Kumar Goel		20 December 2011	10 October 2013	1 year, 295 days		Punjab & Haryana	2 July 2001	Transferred to Odisha
35	Abhay Manohar Sapre		19 October 2013	12 August 2014	298 days		Madhya Pradesh	25 October 1999	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	K. Sreedhar Rao		13 August 2014	20 October 2015	1 year, 69 days				Retired as Acting CJ	[113]
--	T. Vaiphei		21 October 2015	4 March 2016	136 days					[122]
36	Ajit Singh		5 March 2016	5 September 2018	2 years, 185 days		Madhya Pradesh	1 April 2002
--	A. K. Goswami		6 September 2018	28 October 2018	53 days
37	Ajjikuttira Somaiah Bopanna		29 October 2018	23 May 2019	207 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	A. K. Goswami		24 May 2019	6 October 2019	136 days	189 days[g]				[122]
38	Ajai Lamba		7 October 2019	20 September 2020	350 days		Punjab & Haryana	22 March 2006
--	N. Kotiswar Singh		21 September 2020	9 January 2021	111 days
39	Sudhanshu Dhulia		10 January 2021	8 May 2022	1 year, 119 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	N. Kotiswar Singh		9 May 2022	22 June 2022	45 days
40	Rashmin Manharbhai Chhaya		23 June 2022	11 January 2023	203 days
--	N. Kotiswar Singh		12 January 2023	14 February 2023	34 days	190 days[h]			Transferred as 36th CJ of Jammu & Kashmir	[123]
41	Sandeep Mehta		15 February 2023	8 November 2023	267 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	L. Jamir		9 November 2023	4 February 2024	88 days
42	Vijay Bishnoi		5 February 2024	29 May 2025	1 year, 114 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	L. Jamir		30 May 2025	20 July 2025	52 days	140 days[i]			Transferred as Judge to Calcutta
43	Ashutosh Kumar		21 July 2025	Incumbent	243 days			15 May 2014

The Gujarat High Court was established on 1 May 1960 under the Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960 and has had 28 Chief Justices^[124] excluding Acting Chief Justices.^[125]

2022 Annual report of Gujarat High Court contains list of all former acting chief justices till the time of publishing report.^[126]

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Total tenure[a][b]	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment	Remarks	Ref..
1	Sunderlal Trikamlal Desai		1 May 1960	25 January 1961	270 days		Bombay	1952
2	Kantilal Thakoredas Desai		26 January 1961	22 May 1963	2 years, 117 days		Bombay	6 January 1957
3	Jaishanker Manilal Shelat		23 May 1963 Permanent from 31 May 1963	23 February 1966	2 years, 269 days	2 years, 277 days	Bombay		ACJ: (23 May 1963 – 30 May 1963) Elevated to Supreme Court
4	Nomanbhai Mahmedbhai Miabhoy		24 February 1966 Permanent from 21 April 1966	5 September 1967	1 year, 138 days	1 year, 194 days	Bombay	22 March 1957	ACJ: (24 February 1966 – 20 April 1966)	[127]
5	Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati		16 September 1967	17 July 1973	5 years, 305 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
6	Bipinchandra Jivanlal Diwan		18 July 1973	30 June 1976	2 years, 349 days				Transferred to Undivided Andhra Pradesh
7	Seshareddi Obul Reddy		7 July 1976	18 August 1977	1 year, 43 days		Andhra Pradesh	8 July 1966	Transferred to Undivided Andhra Pradesh
(6)	Bipinchandra Jivanlal Diwan		28 August 1977	19 August 1981	3 years, 357 days	6 years, 341 days[j]			Retransferred to Gujarat as CJ w.e.f. 28 August 1977.
8	Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar		20 August 1981	14 March 1983	1 year, 207 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	P. D. Desai		15 March 1983	27 September 1983	197 days					[128]
9	Padmanabham Subramanian Poti		28 September 1983	1 February 1985	1 year, 127 days		Kerala	20 March 1969
--	B. K. Mehta		2 February 1985	20 March 1985	47 days
10	Puliyangudi Ramaiyapillai Gokulakrishnan		21 March 1985	12 August 1990	5 years, 145 days
--	R. C. Mankad		13 August 1990	1 December 1990	111 days					[129]
11	Ganendra Narayan Ray		2 December 1990	6 October 1991	309 days		Calcutta	23 December 1976	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	R. C. Mankad		7 October 1991	18 February 1992	135 days	247 days[k]			Retired as Acting CJ
--	S. B. Majumdar		19 February 1992	14 June 1992	117 days
12	Sundaram Nainar Sundaram		15 June 1992	13 December 1993	1 year, 182 days				Transferred to Undivided Andhra Pradesh
13	Bhupinder Nath Kirpal		14 December 1993	11 September 1995	1 year, 272 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	R. A. Mehta		12 September 1995	1 July 1996	294 days					[130]
14	Gurudas Datta Kamat		2 July 1996	4 January 1997	187 days		Bombay	29 August 1983
--	R. A. Mehta		5 January 1997	19 October 1997	288 days	1 year, 217 days[l]
15	Kumaran Sreedharan		20 October 1997	3 June 1998	227 days		Kerala	10 September 1985
16	Konakuppakattil Gopinathan Balakrishnan		4 June 1998 Permanent from 16 July 1998	8 September 1999	1 year, 55 days	1 year, 97 days	Kerala	26 September 1985	ACJ : (4 June 1998 – 15 July 1998) Transferred to Madras
--	C. K. Thakker		9 September 1999	24 January 2000	138 days					[131]
17	Devdatta Madhav Dharmadhikari		25 January 2000	4 March 2002	2 years, 39 days		Madhya Pradesh	24 March 1989	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	B. C. Patel		5 March 2002	16 March 2002	12 days					[132]
18	Daya Saran Sinha		17 March 2002	17 March 2003	1 year, 1 day		Allahabad	17 March 1986
--	J. N. Bhatt		18 March 2003	24 August 2003	160 days					[133]
19	Bhawani Singh		25 August 2003	28 March 2006	2 years, 216 days
--	B. J. Shethna		28 March 2006	2 April 2006	6 days					[134]
20	Yad Ram Meena		3 April 2006 Permanent from 3 February 2007	30 June 2008	1 year, 149 days	2 years, 89 days			ACJ: (3 April 2006 – 2 February 2007)	[135]
--	M. S. Shah		1 July 2008	3 September 2008	65 days
21	Kalavamkodath Sivasankara Panicker Radhakrishnan		4 September 2008	16 November 2009	1 year, 74 days		Kerala	17 May 1995	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	M. S. Shah		16 November 2009	8 December 2009	23 days	88 days[m]
22	Sudhanshu Joshi Mukhopadhaya		9 December 2009	12 September 2011	1 year, 278 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	A. L. Dave		13 September 2011	7 November 2011	56 days					[136]
23	Bhaskar Bhattacharya		8 November 2011 Permanent from 21 July 2012	28 September 2014	2 years, 70 days	2 years, 325 days	Calcutta	17 July 1997	ACJ: (8 November 2011 – 20 July 2012)
--	V. M. Sahai		29 September 2014	12 August 2015	318 days				Retired as Acting CJ	[137]
--	J. M. Patel		13 August 2015	12 February 2016	184 days				Transferred as Judge to Karnataka	[138]
24	Ramayyagari Subhash Reddy		13 February 2016	1 November 2018	2 years, 262 days		Andhra Pradesh	2 December 2002	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	A. A. Kureshi		2 November 2018	13 November 2018	12 days				Transferred as Judge to Bombay	[139]
--	A. S. Dave		14 November 2018	9 September 2019	300 days					[140]
25	Vikram Nath		10 September 2019	30 August 2021	1 year, 355 days		Allahabad	24 September 2004	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Vineet Kothari		31 August 2021	2 September 2021	3 days				Retired as Acting CJ	[141]
--	R. M. Chhaya		2 September 2021	12 October 2021	41 days
26	Aravind Kumar		13 October 2021	12 February 2023	1 year, 123 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
27	Sonia Giridhar Gokani		13 February 2023 Permanent from 16 February 2023	25 February 2023	10 days	13 days			ACJ: (13 February 2023 – 15 February 2023)
--	A. J. Desai		26 February 2023	22 July 2023	147 days				Transferred as 38th CJ of Kerala	[142]
28	Sunita Agarwal		23 July 2023	Incumbent	2 years, 241 days		Allahabad	21 November 2011

The Himachal Pradesh High Court was established on 25 January 1971 under the State of Himachal Pradesh Act, 1970 and has had 30 Chief Justices^[143] excluding Acting Chief Justices.

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Total tenure[a][b]	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment	Remarks	Ref..
1	Mirza Hameedullah Beg		25 January 1971	9 December 1971	319 days		Allahabad	11 June 1963	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	D. B. Lal		10 December 1971	17 March 1972	99 days					[144]
2	Raghunandan Swarup Pathak		18 March 1972	19 February 1978	5 years, 339 days		Allahabad	1 October 1962	Elevated to Supreme Court
3	Tryambkalal Umedchand Mehta		20 February 1978 Permanent from 25 July 1978	11 December 1979	1 year, 140 days	1 year, 295 days			ACJ: (20 February 1978 – 24 July 1978)
4	Vyas Dev Misra		12 December 1979	30 September 1983	3 years, 293 days
--	H. S. Thakur		1 October 1983	22 December 1983	83 days					[145]
5	Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai		23 December 1983	13 November 1988	4 years, 327 days				Transferred to Calcutta
--	V. K. Mehrotra		14 November 1988	28 March 1989	135 days					[146]
6	Narendra Mohan Kasliwal		29 March 1989	5 October 1989	191 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	V. K. Mehrotra		6 October 1989	5 November 1989	31 days
7	Perumbulavil Chakkala Valappil Balakrishna Menon		6 November 1989	14 January 1991	1 year, 70 days		Kerala	18 September 1980
--	V. K. Mehrotra		15 January 1991	4 August 1991	202 days					[147]
8	Leila Seth		5 August 1991	19 October 1992	1 year, 76 days
9	Shashi Kant Seth		22 June 1993	27 August 1993	67 days		Madhya Pradesh	27 November 1978
10	Viswanathan Ratnam		29 January 1994	31 July 1994	184 days
11	Gulab Chand Gupta		17 September 1994	28 February 1995	165 days		Madhya Pradesh	20 June 1983
12	Sailendu Nath Phukan		1 March 1995	1 August 1996	1 year, 154 days				Transferred to Odisha
--	Kamlesh Sharma		2 August 1996	11 August 1996	10 days					[148]
13	Madhavachari Srinivasan		12 August 1996	24 September 1997	1 year, 44 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Kamlesh Sharma		25 September 1997	6 November 1997	43 days
14	Makani Narayana Rao		6 November 1997	21 April 1998	167 days		Andhra Pradesh	11 July 1986
--	Kamlesh Sharma		22 April 1998	30 June 1998	70 days
15	Doraiswamy Raju		1 July 1998	28 January 2000	1 year, 212 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Kamlesh Sharma		29 January 2000	4 May 2000	97 days
16	Chunilal Karsandas Thakker		5 May 2000	30 December 2001	1 year, 240 days				Transferred to Bombay
--	Kamlesh Sharma		31 December 2001	24 January 2002	25 days
17	Wungazan Awungshi Shishak		24 January 2002	31 December 2002	342 days
--	Kamlesh Sharma		1 January 2003	7 March 2003	66 days	311 days[n]
18	Vinod Kumar Gupta		8 March 2003	1 February 2008	4 years, 331 days				Transferred to Uttarakhand
19	Jagadish Bhalla		2 February 2008	9 August 2009	1 year, 189 days		Allahabad	5 April 1995	Transferred to Rajasthan
--	R. B. Misra		10 August 2009	8 February 2010	183 days					[149]
20	Kurian Joseph		8 February 2010	7 March 2013	3 years, 28 days		Kerala	12 July 2000	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	R. B. Misra		8 March 2013	3 April 2013	27 days	210 days[o]
21	Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar		4 April 2013	24 November 2013	235 days		Bombay	29 March 2000	Transferred to Madhya Pradesh
--	D. D. Sud		24 November 2013	26 November 2013	3 days					[149]
22	Mansoor Ahmad Mir		27 November 2013 Permanent from 18 June 2014	24 April 2017	2 years, 311 days	3 years, 149 days			ACJ: (27 November 2013 – 17 June 2014)
--	Sanjay Karol		25 April 2017	5 October 2018	1 year, 164 days
23	Surya Kant		5 October 2018	23 May 2019	231 days		Punjab & Haryana	9 January 2004	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	D. C. Chaudhary		24 May 2019	21 June 2019	29 days
24	V. Ramasubramanian		22 June 2019	22 September 2019	93 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	D. C. Chaudhary		23 September 2019	5 October 2019	13 days	42 days[p]
25	Lingappa Narayana Swamy		6 October 2019	30 June 2021	1 year, 268 days
--	Ravi Malimath		1 July 2021	13 October 2021	105 days				Transferred as 27th CJ of Madhya Pradesh
26	Mohammad Rafiq		14 October 2021	24 May 2022	134 days
--	Sabina		25 May 2022	22 June 2022	29 days					[150]
27	Amjad Ahtesham Sayed		23 June 2022	20 January 2023	212 days		Bombay	11 April 2007
--	Sabina		21 January 2023	19 April 2023	89 days	118 days[q]			Retired as Acting CJ
--	T. S. Chauhan		20 April 2023	29 May 2023	40 days
28	Mamidanna Satyratna Ramachandra Rao		30 May 2023	24 September 2024	1 year, 118 days		Telangana	29 June 2012	Transferred to Jharkhand
29	Rajiv Shakdher		25 September 2024	18 October 2024	24 days
--	T. S. Chauhan		19 October 2024	28 December 2024	71 days	111 days[r]
30	Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia		29 December 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 82 days		Punjab & Haryana	30 September 2011

The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court was established on 26 March 1928 under Letters Patent issued by then Maharaja of Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 and has had 38 Chief Justices^[151] excluding Acting Chief Justices.^[152]

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Total tenure[a][b]	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment	Remarks	Ref..
Pre Independence
1	Kanwar Sain		27 April 1928	15 February 1931	2 years, 295 days
2	Birjor Dalal		16 February 1931	23 November 1936	5 years, 282 days		Allahabad	1925
3	Abdul Qayoom		24 November 1936	20 July 1940	3 years, 240 days
4	Rachpal Singh		13 August 1940	6 March 1942	1 year, 206 days		Allahabad	1934
5	Ganga Nath		24 June 1942	23 October 1945	3 years, 122 days		Allahabad	1937
6	Sarat Kumar Ghosh		29 March 1946	29 March 1948	2 years, 1 day		Calcutta	September 1929	Transferred to Rajasthan[s]
Post Independence
7	Janki Nath Wazir		30 March 1948	2 December 1967	19 years, 248 days
8	Syed Murtaza Fazl Ali		3 December 1967	1 April 1975	7 years, 120 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
9	Raja Jaswant Singh		2 April 1975	22 January 1976	296 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
10	Muhammed Rafeeudin Ahmed Ansari		23 January 1976	8 November 1977	1 year, 290 days
11	Mian Jalal-ud-Din		15 February 1978	22 February 1980	2 years, 8 days
12	Mufti Baha-ud-Din		23 February 1980 Permanent from 7 March 1983	23 August 1983	170 days	3 years, 182 days			ACJ: (23 February 1980 – 6 March 1983)	[153]
13	Vazhakkulangarayil Khalid		24 August 1983	24 June 1984	306 days		Kerala	7 March 1974	Elevated to Supreme Court
14	Adarsh Sein Anand		25 June 1984 Permanent from 11 May 1985	23 October 1989	4 years, 166 days	5 years, 121 days			ACJ: (25 June 1984 – 10 May 1985) Transferred to Madras
15	Sukhdev Singh Kang		24 October 1989	14 May 1993	3 years, 203 days		Punjab & Haryana	19 February 1979
16	Satish Chandra Mathur		10 October 1993	17 March 1994	159 days		Allahabad	30 March 1978
17	Saiyed Sagir Ahmed		18 March 1994	22 September 1994	189 days		Allahabad	2 November 1981	Transferred to Undivided Andhra Pradesh
18	M. Ramakrishna		10 October 1994	15 June 1997	2 years, 249 days				Transferred to Gauhati
19	Bhawani Singh		16 June 1997	20 February 2000	2 years, 250 days				Transferred to Madhya Pradesh
20	Bhagwati Prasad Saraf		21 February 2000	22 August 2001	1 year, 183 days
21	Hotoi Khetoho Sema		23 August 2001 Permanent from 12 September 2001	4 March 2002	174 days	194 days			ACJ: (23 August 2001 – 11 September 2001) Elevated to Supreme Court	[118][154]
--	V. K. Khanji		9 April 2002	14 May 2002	36 days					[149]
22	Babulal Chandulal Patel		15 May 2002	4 March 2003	294 days				Transferred to Delhi
--	V. K. Khanji		5 March 2003	4 February 2004	337 days	1 year, 8 days[t]
23	Sachchidanand Jha		4 February 2004	11 October 2005	1 year, 250 days				Transferred to Rajasthan
24	Bashir Ahmed Khan		25 January 2007	31 March 2007	66 days
--	N. A. Kakru		1 April 2007	5 June 2007	66 days					[83]
--	Aftab Alam		6 June 2007	11 November 2007	159 days				Elevated to Supreme Court	[155]
--	N. A. Kakru		12 November 2007	6 January 2008	56 days
25	Kalavamkodath Sivasankara Panicker Radhakrishnan		7 January 2008	28 August 2008	235 days		Kerala	17 May 1995	Transferred to Gujarat
26	Manmohan Sarin		4 September 2008	19 October 2008	46 days
--	N. A. Kakru		20 October 2008	2 January 2009	75 days	197 days[u]
27	Barin Ghosh		3 January 2009	12 April 2010	1 year, 100 days		Calcutta	14 July 1995	Transferred to Sikkim
28	Aftab Hussain Saikia		13 April 2010	6 April 2011	359 days
29	Fakir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla		7 April 2011 Permanent from 18 September 2011	1 April 2012	197 days	361 days			ACJ: (7 April 2011 – 17 September 2011) Elevated to Supreme Court	[156]
--	Virender Singh		2 April 2012	8 June 2012	68 days
30	Mahesh Mittal Kumar		9 June 2012	4 January 2015	2 years, 210 days		Punjab & Haryana	2 July 2001
--	M. Y. Mir		5 January 2015	2 February 2015	29 days					[152]
31	Narayanan Nadar Paul Vasanthakumar		2 February 2015	14 March 2017	2 years, 41 days
--	R. Sudhakar		15 March 2017	31 March 2017	17 days
32	Badar Durrez Ahmed		1 April 2017	15 March 2018	349 days
--	R. Sudhakar		16 March 2018	11 May 2018	57 days	74 days[v]			Transferred as 5th CJ of Manipur
--	Alok Aradhe		11 May 2018	10 August 2018	92 days					[157]
33	Gita Mittal		11 August 2018	8 December 2020	2 years, 120 days
--	Rajesh Bindal		9 December 2020	3 January 2021	26 days				Transferred as Judge to Calcutta
34	Pankaj Mithal		4 January 2021	11 October 2022	1 year, 281 days		Allahabad	7 July 2006	Transferred to Rajasthan
35	Ali Mohammad Magrey		12 October 2022	7 December 2022	57 days
--	Tashi Rabstan		8 December 2022	14 February 2023	69 days
36	Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh		15 February 2023	17 July 2024	1 year, 154 days		Manipur	17 October 2011	Elevated to Supreme Court
37	Tashi Rabstan		18 July 2024 Permanent from 27 September 2024	9 April 2025	195 days	335 days[w]			ACJ: (18 July 2024 – 26 September 2024)
--	Sanjeev Kumar		10 April 2025	15 April 2025	6 days					[158]
38	Arun Palli		16 April 2025	Incumbent	339 days		Punjab & Haryana	28 December 2013

The Jharkhand High Court was established on 15 November 2000 under Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 and has had 18 Chief Justices^[159] excluding Acting Chief Justices.

Permanent Chief Justices

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment
1	Vinod Kumar Gupta		5 December 2000	4 March 2003[§][x]	2 years, 90 days
2	Perubhemba Krishna Ayer Balasubramanyan		10 March 2003[^][y]	26 August 2004[‡]	1 year, 170 days	Kerala	4 June 1992
3	Altamas Kabir		1 March 2005	8 September 2005[‡]	192 days	Calcutta	6 August 1990
4	Nelavoy Dhinakar		4 December 2005	9 June 2006	188 days
5	Muthusamy Karpaga Vinayagam		17 September 2006	15 May 2008	1 year, 242 days
6	Gyan Sudha Misra		13 July 2008	30 April 2010[‡]	1 year, 292 days
7	Bhagwati Prasad		22 August 2010	12 May 2011	264 days
8	Prakash Chandra Tatia		11 September 2011	3 August 2013	1 year, 327 days
9	R. Banumathi		16 November 2013	12 August 2014[‡]	270 days
10	Virender Singh		1 November 2014	6 October 2016	1 year, 341 days	Punjab & Haryana	2 July 2002
11	Pradip Kumar Mohanty		24 March 2017	9 June 2017	78 days	Orissa	7 March 2002
12	Aniruddha Bose		11 August 2018	23 May 2019[‡]	286 days	Calcutta	19 January 2004
13	Ravi Ranjan		17 November 2019	19 December 2022	3 years, 33 days
14	Sanjaya Kumar Mishra		20 February 2023	28 December 2023	312 days	Orissa	7 October 2009
15	Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi		5 July 2024	19 July 2024	15 days	Orissa	20 June 2013
16	Mamidanna Satyaratna Ramachandra Rao		25 September 2024[^][z]	21 July 2025[§][aa]	300 days	Telangana	29 June 2012
17	Tarlok Singh Chauhan		23 July 2025	8 January 2026	170 days
18	Mahesh Sharadchandra Sonak		9 January 2026	Incumbent	71 days	Bombay	21 June 2013

Acting Chief Justices

Name	From	To	Tenure	Appointed due to	Ref..
V. K. Gupta	15 November 2000	4 December 2000[β][ab]	20 days	Creation of New HC	[143]
S. J. Mukhopadhaya	27 August 2004	28 February 2005	186 days	Elevation of CJ P. K. Balasubramanyan to Supreme Court	[160]
	9 September 2005	3 December 2005	86 days	Elevation of CJ Altamas Kabir to Supreme Court
	10 June 2006	28 August 2006	80 days	Retirement of CJ N. Dhinakar
M. Y. Eqbal	29 August 2006	16 September 2006	19 days	Transfer of ACJ S. J. Mukhopadhaya as Judge to Madras	[161]
	16 May 2008	12 July 2008	58 days	Retirement of CJ M. K. Vinayagam	[162]
	1 May 2010	10 June 2010[β][ac]	41 days	Elevation of CJ G. S. Misra to Supreme Court	[163]
Sushil Harkauli	11 June 2010	21 August 2010	72 days	Elevation of ACJ M. Y. Eqbal as 36th CJ of Madras	[164]
P. C. Tatia	13 May 2011	10 September 2011[β][ab]	121 days	Retirement of CJ Bhagwati Prasad
D. N. Patel	4 August 2013	15 November 2013	104 days	Retirement of CJ P. C. Tatia	[165]
	13 August 2014	31 October 2014	80 days	Elevation of CJ R. Banumathi to Supreme Court
	10 June 2017	10 August 2018	1 year, 62 days	Retirement of CJ P. K. Mohanty
	24 May 2019	6 June 2019[β][ad]	14 days	Elevation of CJ Aniruddha Bose to Supreme Court
P. K. Mohanty	7 October 2016	23 March 2017[β][ab]	168 days	Retirement of CJ Virender Singh
Prashant Kumar	7 June 2019	30 August 2019[†]	85 days	Elevation of ACJ D. N. Patel as 31st CJ of Delhi	[166]
H. C. Mishra	30 August 2019	16 November 2019	79 days	Death of ACJ Prashant Kumar	[167]
A. K. Singh	20 December 2022	19 February 2023	62 days	Retirement of CJ Ravi Ranjan	[168]
Shree Chandrashekhar	29 December 2023	4 July 2024	189 days	Retirement of CJ S. K. Mishra	[169]
Sujit Narayan Prasad	20 July 2024	24 September 2024	67 days	Retirement of CJ B. R. Sarangi	[170]
	22 July 2025	22 July 2025	1 day	Transfer of CJ M. S. R. Rao to Tripura

The Karnataka High Court was established in 1884 under the Mysore High Court Act, 1884 and has had 35 Chief Justices excluding Acting Chief Justices.

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Total tenure[a][b]	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment	Remarks	Ref..
1	Rudrapatna Venkataramaiah		1 November 1956	16 July 1957	258 days
--	N. Srinivasa Rau		17 July 1957	24 July 1957	8 days					[171]
2	S. R. Das Gupta		25 July 1957	13 August 1961	4 years, 20 days		Calcutta	13 June 1949
3	Nittoor Srinivasa Rau		14 August 1961 Permanent from 29 March 1962	23 August 1963	1 year, 132 days	2 years, 18 days			ACJ: (14 August 1961 – 28 March 1962)	[172]
--	H. Hombe Gowda		20 January 1964	1 August 1969	5 years, 194 days					[173]
4	A. R. Somanath Iyer		1 August 1969 Permanent from 23 November 1969	29 December 1969	37 days	151 days			ACJ: (1 August 1969 – 22 November 1969)	[174]
5	M. Sadasivayya		30 December 1969	16 September 1970	261 days
6	A. Narayana Pai		17 September 1970	6 June 1973	2 years, 263 days
7	G. K. Govinda Bhat		7 June 1973	14 December 1977	4 years, 191 days
--	C. Honniah		15 December 1977	21 March 1978	97 days					[175]
8	Deshmudre Mallappa Chandrashekhar		22 March 1978	25 September 1982	4 years, 188 days
9	Koratagere Bhimaiah		26 September 1982 Permanent from 28 October 1982	10 April 1983	165 days	197 days			ACJ: (26 September 1982 – 27 October 1982)	[176]
10	Vijaykumar Siddheshwaraswami Malimath		6 February 1984	24 October 1985	1 year, 261 days				Transferred to Kerala
--	K. Jagannatha Shetty		24 October 1985	17 August 1986	298 days					[177]
11	Prem Chand Jain		18 August 1986	16 September 1989	3 years, 30 days		Punjab & Haryana	24 June 1968
12	Shanmughasundaram Mohan		26 October 1989	6 October 1991	1 year, 346 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
13	Sam Piroj Bharucha		1 November 1991	30 June 1992	243 days		Bombay	19 September 1977	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	K. A. Swamy		1 July 1992	1 July 1993	1 year, 1 day				Transferred as 26th CJ of Madras	[175]
14	Shailesh Bhadrayulal Majumdar		2 July 1993	18 September 1994	1 year, 79 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
15	Girish Thakorlal Nanavati		28 September 1994	5 March 1995	159 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
16	Madhav Laxman Pendse		28 July 1995	25 March 1996	242 days		Bombay	25 January 1978
17	S. A. Hakeem		3 May 1996	9 May 1996	7 days
18	Ram Prakash Sethi		29 June 1996	6 January 1999	2 years, 192 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
19	Yarabati Bhaskar Rao		7 January 1999 Permanent from 9 March 1999	26 June 2000	1 year, 110 days	1 year, 172 days	Andhra Pradesh	11 July 1986	ACJ: (7 January 1999 – 8 March 1999)	[174]
--	Ashok Bhan		27 June 2000	20 October 2000	116 days					[178]
20	P. Venkatarama Reddi		21 October 2000	16 August 2001	300 days		Andhra Pradesh	16 March 1990	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	G. C. Bharuka		17 August 2001	30 August 2001	14 days					[179]
21	Nagendra Kumar Jain		31 August 2001	20 October 2004	3 years, 51 days
--	S. R. Nayak		20 October 2004	18 November 2004	30 days				Transferred as 5th CJ of Chhattisgarh	[175]
22	Nauvdip Kumar Sodhi		19 November 2004	29 November 2005	1 year, 11 days		Punjab & Haryana	15 March 1991
--	B. Padmaraj		29 November 2005	6 January 2006	39 days					[179]
23	Cyriac Joseph		7 January 2006	6 July 2008	2 years, 182 days		Kerala	6 July 1994	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Deepak Verma		7 July 2008	7 August 2008	32 days					[180]
24	Paul Daniel Dinakaran Premkumar		8 August 2008	7 August 2010	2 years, 0 days				Transferred to Sikkim
25	Jagdish Singh Khehar		8 August 2010	12 September 2011	1 year, 36 days		Punjab & Haryana	8 February 1999	Elevated to Supreme Court
26	Vikramajit Sen		13 September 2011 Permanent from 24 December 2011	24 December 2012	1 year, 1 day	1 year, 103 days			ACJ: (13 September 2011 – 23 December 2011) Elevated to Supreme Court	[181]
--	K. Sreedhar Rao		25 December 2012	6 March 2013	72 days					[182]
27	Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela		7 March 2013	3 June 2015	2 years, 89 days				Transferred to Orissa
28	Subhro Kamal Mukherjee		4 June 2015 Permanent from 23 February 2016	9 October 2017	1 year, 229 days	2 years, 128 days	Calcutta	15 September 2000	ACJ: (4 June 2015 – 22 February 2016)	[183]
--	H. G. Ramesh		10 October 2017	12 February 2018	126 days
29	Dinesh Maheshwari		12 February 2018	17 January 2019	340 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	L. N. Swamy		18 January 2019	9 May 2019	112 days					[143]
30	Abhay Shreeniwas Oka		10 May 2019	30 August 2021	2 years, 113 days		Bombay	29 August 2003	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	S. C. Sharma		31 August 2021	10 October 2021	41 days				Tansferred as 4th CJ of Telangana
31	Ritu Raj Awasthi		11 October 2021	2 July 2022	265 days		Allahabad	13 April 2009
--	Alok Aradhe		3 July 2022	14 October 2022	104 days					[157]
32	Prasanna Bhalachandra Varale		15 October 2022	24 January 2024	1 year, 102 days		Bombay	18 July 2008	Elevated to Supreme Court
33	Pratinidhi Srinivasacharya Dinesh Kumar		25 January 2024 Permanent from 3 February 2024	24 February 2024	22 days	31 days			ACJ: (25 January 2024 – 2 February 2024)	[184]
34	Nilay Vipinchandra Anjaria		25 February 2024	29 May 2025	1 year, 94 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	V. Kameswar Rao		30 May 2025	18 July 2025	50 days				Transferred as Judge to Delhi
35	Vibhu Bakhru		19 July 2025	Incumbent	245 days			17 April 2013

The Kerala High Court was established on 1 November 1956 under States Reorganisation Act, 1956 and has had 40 Chief Justices excluding Acting Chief Justices.

Permanent Chief Justices

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment	Ref..
1	K. T. Koshi		1 November 1956	31 January 1959	2 years, 92 days	Cochin[γ]	12 September 1944
2	Kesavan Sankaran		2 February 1959	28 March 1960	1 year, 56 days	Cochin[γ]	July 1948	[185]
3	Mohammed Ahmed Ansari		29 March 1960	25 November 1961	1 year, 242 days	Hyderabad[δ]	29 November 1946	[186]
4	Mannathazhath Sankarakutti Menon		26 November 1961	12 June 1969	7 years, 199 days	Cochin[γ]	29 January 1953	[187]
5	P. T. Raman Nair		13 June 1969	1 September 1971	2 years, 81 days	Kerala	22 February 1957
6	Thoniparambil Chinnan Raghavan		2 September 1971	21 May 1973	1 year, 262 days	Kerala	15 December 1959	[188]
7	Padmanbhapillay Govindan Nair		22 May 1973	2 January 1977[§][c]	3 years, 226 days	Kerala	29 January 1962
8	Vannathankandiyil Puthiyedath Gopalan Nambiyar		3 January 1977	18 January 1980	3 years, 16 days	Kerala	22 March 1965	[189]
9	Vettath Balakrishna Eradi		19 January 1980	29 January 1981[‡]	1 year, 11 days	Kerala	5 April 1967
10	Padmanabhan Subramanian Poti		6 June 1983	27 September 1983[§][d]	114 days	Kerala	20 March 1969	[190]
11	Kattali Bhaskaran		21 March 1985	8 October 1985[§][e]	202 days	Kerala	3 April 1972	[191]
12	Vijaykumar Siddheshwaraswami Malimath		25 October 1985[^][f]	10 June 1991	5 years, 229 days
13	Mamidanna Jagannadha Rao		8 August 1991	5 April 1994[§][g]	2 years, 241 days	Andhra Pradesh	29 November 1982
14	Sujata Manohar		21 April 1994[^][h]	4 November 1994[‡]	198 days	Bombay	23 January 1978
15	Manadath Mohammed Pareed Pillay		5 November 1994	17 September 1995	317 days	Kerala	31 January 1985
16	Uday Pratap Singh		23 July 1996	19 December 1997	1 year, 150 days
17	Om Prakash Verma		20 December 1997	19 March 1999	1 year, 90 days	Allahabad	24 May 1984
18	Arijit Pasayat		20 September 1999	8 May 2000[§][g]	233 days	Orissa	20 March 1989
19	Arvind Vinayakarao Savant		30 May 2000	16 September 2000	110 days	Bombay	30 July 1990
20	Karinchet Kumaran Usha		30 November 2000	2 July 2001	215 days	Kerala	25 February 1991
21	Bellur Narayanswamy Srikrishna		7 September 2001	1 October 2002[‡]	1 year, 25 days	Bombay	30 July 1990
22	Jawahar Lal Gupta		2 November 2002	21 January 2004	1 year, 81 days	Punjab & Haryana	15 March 1991
23	Nauvdip Kumar Sodhi		6 April 2004	17 November 2004[§][i]	226 days	Punjab & Haryana
24	Bollampally Subhashan Reddy		21 November 2004[^][j]	1 March 2005	101 days	Andhra Pradesh	25 November 1991
25	Rajeev Gupta		27 April 2005	10 January 2006[§][k]	259 days	Madhya Pradesh	27 September 1994
26	Vinod Kumar Bali		22 January 2006	23 January 2007	1 year, 2 days	Punjab & Haryana	15 March 1991
27	Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu		18 May 2007[^][l]	15 December 2008[‡]	1 year, 212 days
28	Samindar Rudrayya Bannurmath		18 March 2009	22 January 2010	311 days
29	Jasti Chelameswar		17 March 2010[^][m]	9 October 2011[‡]	1 year, 207 days	Andhra Pradesh	23 June 1997
30	Manjula Chellur		26 September 2012	1 August 2014[§][n]	1 year, 310 days
31	Ashok Bhushan		26 March 2015	12 May 2016[‡]	1 year, 48 days	Allahabad	24 April 2001
32	Mohan Shantanagoudar		22 September 2016	16 February 2017[‡]	148 days
33	Navniti Prasad Singh		20 March 2017	6 November 2017	232 days
34	Antony Dominic		9 February 2018	30 May 2018	111 days	Kerala	30 January 2007
35	Hrishikesh Roy		8 August 2018	21 September 2019[‡]	1 year, 45 days
36	S. Manikumar		11 October 2019	24 April 2023	3 years, 196 days
37	Sarasa Venkatanarayana Bhatti		1 June 2023	14 July 2023[‡]	44 days	Andhra Pradesh	12 April 2013
38	Ashish Jitendra Desai		22 July 2023	4 July 2024	349 days
39	Nitin Madhukar Jamdar		26 September 2024	9 January 2026	1 year, 106 days	Bombay	23 January 2012
40	Soumen Sen		10 January 2026[^][o]	Incumbent	70 days	Calcutta	13 April 2011

History section of website of Kerala Judicial Academy contains list of former chief justices of Kerala High Court (both acting and permanent) after 1986. Thus the list contained in this website would serve as primary reference for acting chief justices after 1986.^[192]

Acting Chief Justices

Name	From	To	Tenure	Appointed due to
P. S. Poti[190]	29 January 1981	5 June 1983[β][p]	2 years, 127 days	Elevation of CJ V. B. Eradi to Supreme Court
K. Bhaskaran[191]	28 September 1983	20 March 1985[β][p]	1 year, 174 days	Transfer of CJ P. S. Poti to Gujarat
T. K. Thommen[191]	9 October 1985	24 October 1985	16 days	Transfer of CJ K. Bhaskaran to Undivided Andhra Pradesh
U. L. Bhat	11 June 1991	7 August 1991	58 days	Retirement of CJ V. S. Malimath
Varghese Kalliath	6 April 1994	20 April 1994	15 days	Retirement of CJ M. J. Rao
K. T. Thomas	18 September 1995	26 March 1996[‡]	191 days	Retirement of CJ M. M. Pareed Pillay
K. Sreedharan	27 March 1996	22 July 1996	118 days	Elevation of ACJ K. T. Thomas to Supreme Court
A. R. Lakshmanan	23 May 1999	19 September 1999	120 days	Resignation/ Retirement or Transfer of the then ACJ
	8 May 2000	27 May 2000[β][q]	20 days	Transfer of CJ Arijit Pasayat to Delhi
K. K. Usha	28 May 2000	29 May 2000	2 days	Elevation of ACJ A. R. Lakshmanan as 22nd CJ of Rajasthan
	17 September 2000	29 November 2000[β][p]	74 days	Retirement of CJ A. V. Savant
P. K. Balasubramanyan	3 July 2001	6 September 2001	66 days	Retirement of CJ K. K. Usha
Cyriac Joseph	2 October 2002	1 November 2002	31 days	Elevation of CJ B. N. Srikrishna to Supreme Court
	18 November 2004	20 November 2004	3 days	Transfer of CJ N. K. Sodhi to Karnataka
	2 March 2005	18 March 2005[β][r]	17 days	Retirement of CJ B. S. Reddy
N. K. Sodhi	22 January 2004	5 April 2004[β][p]	75 days	Retirement of CJ J. L. Gupta
K. S. Radhakrishnan	19 March 2005	26 April 2005	39 days	Elevation of ACJ Cyriac Joseph as 4th CJ of Uttarakhand
	11 January 2006	21 January 2006	11 days	Transfer of CJ Rajeev Gupta to Uttarakhand
	24 January 2007	17 May 2007	114 days	Retirement of CJ V. K. Bali
J. B. Koshy	16 December 2008	13 March 2009[β][s]	88 days	Elevation of CJ H. L. Dattu to Supreme Court
Kurian Joseph	14 March 2009	17 March 2009	4 days	Elevation of ACJ J. B. Koshy as 34th CJ of Patna
	23 January 2010	5 February 2010[β][t]	14 days	Retirement of CJ S. R. Bannurmath
P. R. Raman	6 February 2010	16 March 2010	39 days	Elevation of ACJ Kurian Joseph as 20th CJ of Himachal Pradesh
C. N. Ramachandran Nair	10 October 2011	8 November 2011	30 days	Elevation of CJ J. Chelameswar to Supreme Court
Manjula Chellur	9 November 2011	25 September 2012[β][p]	322 days	Transferred as ACJ
Ashok Bhushan	2 August 2014	25 March 2015[β][p]	236 days	Transfer of CJ Manjula Chellur to Calcutta
T. B. Radhakrishnan	13 May 2016	31 July 2016	80 days	Elevation of CJ Ashok Bhushan to Supreme Court
	16 February 2017	17 March 2017[β][u]	30 days	Elevation of CJ Mohan Shantanagoudar to Supreme Court
Mohan Shantanagoudar	1 August 2016	21 September 2016[β][p]	52 days	Transferred as ACJ
Antony Dominic	17 March 2017	20 March 2017	4 days	Elevation of ACJ T. B. Radhakrishnan as 11th CJ of Chhattisgarh
	6 November 2017	8 February 2018[β][p]	95 days	Retirement of CJ N. P. Singh
Hrishikesh Roy	30 May 2018	7 August 2018[β][p]	70 days	Retirement of CJ Antony Dominic
C. K. Abdul Rehim	22 September 2019	11 October 2019	20 days	Elevation of CJ Hrishikesh Roy to Supreme Court
S. V. N. Bhatti	24 April 2023	31 May 2023[β][p]	38 days	Retirement of CJ S. Manikumar
Alexander Thomas	14 July 2023	21 July 2023	8 days	Elevation of CJ S. V. N. Bhatti to Supreme Court
A. M. Mustaque	5 July 2024	25 September 2024	83 days	Retirement of CJ A. J. Desai

The Madhya Pradesh High Court was established on 2 January 1936 under the Government of India Act 1935 and has had 28 Chief Justices^[193] excluding Acting Chief Justices.^[194]

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Total tenure[a][b]	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment	Remarks	Ref..
1	Mohammad Hidayatullah		1 November 1956	12 December 1958	2 years, 42 days		Nagpur[β]	27 June 1946	Elevated to Supreme Court
2	Ganesh Prasad Bhutt		13 December 1958	22 September 1959	284 days		Nagpur[β]	1953
3	Purushottam Vinayak Dixit		22 September 1959	18 March 1969	9 years, 178 days		Gwalior[ε]	1945
4	Bishambhar Dayal		19 March 1969	13 September 1972	3 years, 179 days		Allahabad	6 May 1957
5	Prabhakar Keshava Tare		14 September 1972	10 October 1975	3 years, 27 days		Madhya Pradesh	14 December 1957
6	Shivdayal Shrivastava		11 October 1975	27 February 1978	2 years, 140 days		Madhya Pradesh	3 November 1958
7	Ananda Prakash Sen		28 February 1978	16 July 1978	139 days		Madhya Pradesh	7 November 1967	Elevated to Supreme Court
8	Guru Prasanna Singh		17 July 1978 Permanent from 27 July 1978	3 January 1984	5 years, 161 days	5 years, 174 days	Madhya Pradesh		ACJ: (14 July 1978 – 26 July 1978)
9	Goverdhan Lal Oza		4 January 1984 Permanent from 1 December 1984	26 October 1985	330 days	1 year, 296 days	Madhya Pradesh	29 July 1968	ACJ: (4 January 1984 – 30 November 1984) Elevated to Supreme Court	[195]
10	Jagdish Sharan Verma		27 October 1985 Permanent from 14 June 1986	31 August 1986	79 days	309 days	Madhya Pradesh	12 September 1972	ACJ: (27 October 1985 – 13 June 1986) Transferred to Rajasthan
--	G. G. Sohani		31 August 1986	7 January 1987	130 days
11	Narayan Dutt Ojha		8 January 1987	18 January 1988	1 year, 11 days		Allahabad	3 September 1971	Elevated to Supreme Court
12	Gangadhar Ganesh Sohani		19 January 1988 Permanent from 20 October 1989	23 October 1989	4 days	2 years, 43 days[c]	Madhya Pradesh	2 June 1973	ACJ: (19 January 1988 – 19 October 1989) Transferred to Patna
13	Sushil Kumar Jha		27 October 1989	15 December 1993	4 years, 50 days
14	Ullal Lakshminarayana Bhat		15 December 1993	13 October 1995	1 year, 303 days		Kerala	18 September 1980
15	Ashok Kumar Mathur		13 October 1995 Permanent from 3 February 1996	21 December 1999	3 years, 322 days	4 years, 70 days			ACJ: (13 October 1995 – 2 February 1996) Transferred to Calcutta
--	D. P. S. Chauhan		22 December 1999	23 February 2000	64 days
16	Bhawani Singh		24 February 2000	24 August 2003	3 years, 182 days				Transferred to Gujarat
--	Rajiv Gupta		24 August 2003	5 September 2003	13 days
17	Kumar Rajarathnam		6 September 2003	12 March 2004	189 days
--	Rajiv Gupta		13 March 2004	7 July 2004	117 days	130 days[d]
18	Raju Varadarajulu Raveendran		8 July 2004	8 September 2005	1 year, 63 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Deepak Verma		9 September 2005	1 October 2005	23 days
19	Ananga Kumar Patnaik		2 October 2005	16 November 2009	4 years, 46 days		Orissa	13 January 1994	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	R. S. Garg		17 November 2009	19 December 2009	33 days					[196]
20	Syed Rafat Alam		20 December 2009	4 August 2011	1 year, 228 days				Transferred to Allahabad
--	Sushil Harkauli		5 August 2011	16 October 2012	1 year, 73 days				Transferred as Judge to Allahabad	[164]
21	Sharad Arvind Bobde		16 October 2012	11 April 2013	178 days		Bombay	29 March 2000	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	K. K. Lahoti		12 April 2013	23 November 2013	226 days
22	Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar		24 November 2013	12 May 2016	2 years, 171 days		Bombay	29 March 2000	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Rajendra Menon		13 May 2016	14 March 2017	306 days				Transferred as 40th CJ of Patna	[197]
--	S. K. Seth		15 March 2017	18 March 2017	3 days
23	Hemant Gupta		18 March 2017	1 November 2018	1 year, 229 days		Punjab & Haryana	2 July 2002	Elevated to Supreme Court
24	Sanjay Kumar Seth		2 November 2018 Permanent from 14 November 2018	9 June 2019	208 days	223 days[e]	Madhya Pradesh	21 March 2003	ACJ: (2 November 2018 – 13 November 2018)
--	R. S. Jha		10 June 2019	5 October 2019	118 days				Transferred as 35th CJ of Punjab & Haryana	[197]
--	Sanjay Yadav		6 October 2019	2 November 2019	28 days					[198]
25	Ajay Kumar Mittal		3 November 2019	29 September 2020	332 days		Punjab & Haryana	9 January 2004
--	Sanjay Yadav		30 September 2020	2 January 2021	95 days	123 days[f]
26	Mohammad Rafiq		3 January 2021	13 October 2021	284 days				Transferred to Himachal Pradesh
27	Ravi Malimath		14 October 2021	24 May 2024	2 years, 224 days
--	Sheel Nagu		25 May 2024	8 July 2024	45 days				Transferred as 36th CJ of Punjab & Haryana
--	Sanjeev Sachdeva		9 July 2024	24 September 2024	78 days
28	Suresh Kumar Kait		25 September 2024	23 May 2025	241 days
29	Sanjeev Sachdeva		24 May 2025 Permanent from 17 July 2025	Incumbent	247 days	301 days		17 April 2013	ACJ: (24 May 2025 – 16 July 2025)

The Madras High Court was established on 15 August 1862 under the Indian High Courts Act 1861 and has had 47 Chief Justices excluding Acting Chief Justices.

Permanent Chief Justices

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment
1	Colley Harman Scotland		15 August 1862	21 November 1871	9 years, 99 days
2	Walter Morgan[3]		22 November 1871[^][g]	7 February 1879	7 years, 78 days	Calcutta	1 July 1862
3	Charles Arthur Turner[199]		3 March 1879	1885		Allahabad	1866
4	Arthur John Hammond Collins		1885	1899
5	Charles Arnold White		1899	July 1914
6	John Edward Power Wallis[200]		November 1914	1921
7	Walter George Salis Schwabe		1921	1924[RES]
8	Murray Coutts-Trotter		3 June 1924	1929[RES]
9	Horace Owen Compton Beasley		1929	1937		Burma	1923
10	Alfred Henry Lionel Leach		1937	1947		Burma	1933
11	Fredrick William Gentle[201]		12 July 1947	19 April 1948[RES]	283 days
12	Pakala Venkata Rajamannar		20 April 1948	9 May 1961	13 years, 20 days
13	Subramanya Ramachandra Iyer		16 September 1961	1 November 1964[RES]	3 years, 47 days
14	Palagani Chandra Reddy		23 November 1964[^][h]	30 June 1966	1 year, 220 days
15	Madavayya Anantanarayanan		1 July 1966	30 April 1969	2 years, 304 days
16	Kuppuswami Naidu Veeraswami		1 May 1969	7 April 1976	6 years, 343 days
17	Palapatti Sadaya Goundar Kailasam		8 April 1976	2 January 1977[‡]	270 days
18	Padmanbhapillay Govindan Nair		3 January 1977[^][i]	28 May 1978	1 year, 146 days	Kerala	29 January 1962
19	Tayi Ramaprasada Rao		29 May 1978	5 November 1979	1 year, 161 days
20	Muhammad Kassim Muhammad Ismail		6 November 1979	9 July 1981[RES]	1 year, 246 days
21	Krishna Ballabh Narayan Singh		12 March 1982[^][j]	24 January 1984	1 year, 319 days
22	Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar		2 April 1984[^][k]	13 March 1988	3 years, 347 days	Bombay	28 October 1967
23	Shanmughasundaram Mohan		19 October 1989	25 October 1989[§][l]	7 days
24	Adarsh Sein Anand		1 November 1989[^][m]	17 November 1991[‡]	2 years, 17 days
25	Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar		15 June 1992	14 November 1992	153 days
26	Kudarikoti Annadanayya Swamy		1 July 1993	19 March 1997	3 years, 262 days
27	Manmohan Singh Liberhan		7 July 1997	27 December 1998[§][n]	1 year, 174 days	Punjab & Haryana	11 February 1987
28	Ashok Chhotelal Agarwal		24 May 1999	26 August 1999	95 days	Bombay	21 November 1986
29	Konakuppakattil Gopinathan Balakrishnan		9 September 1999[^][o]	7 June 2000[‡]	273 days	Kerala	26 September 1985
30	Nagendra Kumar Jain		13 September 2000	30 August 2001[§][l]	352 days
31	Bollampally Subhashan Reddy		12 September 2001	20 November 2004[§][p]	3 years, 70 days	Andhra Pradesh	25 November 1991
32	Markandey Katju		28 November 2004	10 October 2005[§][q]	317 days	Allahabad	30 November 1991
33	Ajit Prakash Shah		12 November 2005	9 May 2008[§][q]	2 years, 180 days	Bombay	18 December 1992
34	Asok Kumar Ganguly		19 May 2008[^][r]	15 December 2008[‡]	211 days	Calcutta	10 January 1994
35	Hemant Laxman Gokhale		9 March 2009[^][g]	28 April 2010[‡]	1 year, 51 days	Bombay	20 January 1994
36	Mokhtarajama Yusuf Eqbal		11 June 2010	23 December 2012[‡]	2 years, 196 days
37	Rajesh Kumar Agrawal		24 October 2013	16 February 2014[‡]	116 days	Allahabad	5 February 1999
38	Sanjay Kishan Kaul		26 July 2014[^][s]	16 February 2017[‡]	2 years, 206 days
39	Indira Banerjee		5 April 2017	6 August 2018[‡]	1 year, 124 days	Calcutta	5 February 2002
40	Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani		12 August 2018	6 September 2019[RES]	1 year, 26 days	Bombay	26 June 2001
41	Amreshwar Pratap Sahi		11 November 2019[^][j]	31 December 2020	1 year, 51 days	Allahabad	24 September 2004
42	Sanjib Banerjee		4 January 2021	16 November 2021[§][t]	317 days	Calcutta	22 June 2006
43	Munishwar Nath Bhandari		14 February 2022	12 September 2022	211 days
44	Sanjay Vijaykumar Gangapurwala		28 May 2023	23 May 2024	362 days	Bombay	13 March 2010
45	Kalpathi Rajendran Shriram		27 September 2024	20 July 2025[§][u]	297 days	Bombay	21 June 2013
46	Manindra Mohan Shrivastava		21 July 2025[^][v]	5 March 2026	228 days		10 December 2009
47	Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari		6 March 2026	Incumbent	15 days	Madhya Pradesh	7 April 2016

Acting Chief Justices

Name	From	To	Tenure	Appointed due to	Ref..
S. R. Iyer	10 May 1961	15 September 1961[β][w]	129 days	Retirement of CJ P. V. Rajamannar	[202]
Puliyangudi Ramaiyapillai Gokulakrishnan	10 July 1981	11 March 1982	245 days	Resignation of CJ M. M. Ismail	[203]
	25 January 1984	2 April 1984	69 days	Retirement of CJ K. B. N. Singh	[204]
S. R. Pandian	14 March 1988	13 December 1988[‡]	275 days	Retirement of CJ M. N. Chandurkar	[205]
S. Mohan	14 December 1988	18 October 1989[β][w]	309 days	Elevation of ACJ S. R. Pandian to Supreme Court	[206]
S. N. Sundaram	18 November 1991	14 June 1992[β][x]	210 days	Elevation of CJ A. S. Anand to Supreme Court	[207]
V. Ratnam	15 November 1992	30 June 1993	228 days	Retirement of CJ K. K. Bhatnagar	[143]
K. A. Thanikkachallam	20 March 1997	6 July 1997	109 days	Retirement of CJ K. A. Swamy	[208]
Shivaraj Patil	28 December 1998	19 January 1999[β][y]	23 days	Transfer of CJ A. R. Lakshmanan to Undivided Andhra Pradesh	[209]
N. K. Jain	20 January 1999	23 May 1999	124 days	Elevation of ACJ Shivaraj Patil as 21st CJ of Rajasthan	[210]
	27 August 1999	8 September 1999	13 days	Retirement of CJ A. C. Agarwal
	7 June 2000	12 September 2000[β][w]	98 days	Elevation of CJ K. G. Balakrishnan to Supreme Court
N. Dhinakar	11 October 2005	11 November 2005	32 days	Transfer of CJ Markandey Katju to Delhi	[161]
S. J. Mukhopadhaya	10 May 2008	18 May 2008	9 days	Transfer of CJ A. P. Shah to Delhi	[160]
	16 December 2008	8 March 2009	83 days	Elevation of CJ A. K. Ganguly to Supreme Court	[211]
Elipe Dharma Rao	29 April 2010	10 June 2010	43 days	Elevation of CJ H. L. Gokhale to Supreme Court	[212]
	24 December 2012	6 February 2013	45 days	Elevation of CJ M. Y. Eqbal to Supreme Court
R. K. Agrawal	7 February 2013	23 October 2013[β][w]	259 days	Transferred as ACJ
S. K. Agnihotri	16 February 2014	25 July 2014	160 days	Elevation of CJ R. K. Agrawal to Supreme Court	[213]
Huluvadi G. Ramesh	16 February 2017	4 April 2017	48 days	Elevation of CJ S. K. Kaul to Supreme Court	[214]
	7 August 2018	11 August 2018	5 days	Elevation of CJ Indira Banerjee to Supreme Court
Vineet Kothari	7 September 2019	10 November 2019	65 days	Resignation of CJ V. K. Tahilramani	[215]
	1 January 2021	3 January 2021	3 days	Retirement of CJ A. P. Sahi	[216]
M. Duraiswamy	17 November 2021	21 November 2021	5 days	Transfer of CJ Sanjib Banerjee to Meghalaya	[217]
	13 September 2022	21 September 2022	9 days	Retirement of CJ M. N. Bhandari	[218]
M. N. Bhandari	22 November 2021	13 February 2022[β][w]	84 days	Transferred as ACJ	[219]
T. Raja	22 September 2022	24 May 2023	245 days	Retirement of ACJ M. Duraiswamy	[220]
S. Vaidyanathan	25 May 2023	27 May 2023	3 days	Retirement of ACJ T. Raja	[221]
R. Mahadevan	24 May 2024	17 July 2024[‡]	55 days	Retirement of CJ S. V. Gangapurwala	[222]
D. Krishnakumar	18 July 2024	26 September 2024	72 days	Elevation of CJ R. Mahadevan to Supreme Court

The Manipur High Court was established on 25 March 2013 under the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2012 and has had 10 Chief Justices excluding Acting Chief Justices.

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Total tenure[a][b]	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment	Remarks	Ref..
1	Abhay Manohar Sapre		23 March 2013	18 October 2013	231 days		Madhya Pradesh	25 October 1999	Transferred to Gauhati
2	Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra		21 October 2013 Permanent from 10 July 2014	9 June 2016	1 year, 336 days	2 years, 233 days	Orissa	16 January 1999	ACJ: (21 October 2013 – 9 July 2014)
3	Rakesh Ranjan Prasad		10 June 2016 Permanent from 22 September 2016	30 June 2017	282 days	1 year, 21 days			ACJ: (10 June 2016 – 21 September 2016)	[223]
--	N. Kotiswar Singh		1 July 2017	8 February 2018	223 days					[123]
4	Abhilasha Kumari		9 February 2018	23 February 2018	15 days
--	N. Kotiswar Singh		24 February 2018	17 May 2018	83 days	306 days[c]
5	Ramalingam Sudhakar		18 May 2018	13 February 2021	2 years, 272 days
6	Puligoru Venkata Sanjay Kumar		14 February 2021	5 February 2023	1 year, 357 days		Telangana	8 August 2008	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	M. V. Muralidaran		6 February 2023	19 October 2023	256 days				Transferred as Judge to Calcutta
7	Siddharth Mridul		20 October 2023	21 November 2024	1 year, 33 days
8	Deivasigamani Krishnakumar		22 November 2024	21 May 2025	181 days
9	Kempaiah Somashekar		22 May 2025	14 September 2025	116 days
10	M. Sundar		15 September 2025	Incumbent	187 days

The Meghalaya High Court was established on 23 March 2013 under the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2012 and has had 15 Chief Justices^[224] excluding Acting Chief Justices.

Permanent Chief Justices

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment
1	Toom Meena Kumari		23 March 2013	3 August 2013	134 days	Andhra Pradesh	23 February 1998
2	Prafulla Chandra Pant		20 September 2013	12 August 2014[‡]	327 days
3	Uma Nath Singh		19 March 2015	14 January 2016	302 days	Madhya Pradesh	22 October 2001
4	Dinesh Maheshwari		24 February 2016	11 February 2018[§][d]	1 year, 356 days
5	Tarun Agarwala		12 February 2018	2 March 2018	19 days	Allahabad	7 January 2004
6	Mohammad Yaqoob Mir		21 May 2018	27 May 2019	1 year, 7 days
7	Ajay Kumar Mittal		28 May 2019	2 November 2019[§][e]	159 days	Punjab & Haryana	9 January 2004
8	Mohammad Rafiq		13 November 2019	26 April 2020[§][f]	166 days
9	Biswanath Somadder		27 April 2020	11 October 2021[§][g]	1 year, 168 days	Calcutta	22 June 2006
10	Ranjit Vasantrao More		12 October 2021	3 November 2021	23 days	Bombay	8 September 2006
11	Sanjib Banerjee		24 November 2021[^][h]	1 November 2023	1 year, 343 days	Calcutta	22 June 2006
12	S. Vaidyanathan		11 February 2024	16 August 2024	188 days
13	Indra Prasanna Mukerji		3 October 2024	5 September 2025	338 days	Calcutta	18 May 2009
14	Soumen Sen		8 October 2025	9 January 2026[§][i]	94 days	Calcutta	13 April 2011
15	Revati Prashant Mohite Dere		10 January 2026	Incumbent	70 days	Bombay	21 June 2013

Acting Chief Justices

Name	From	To	Tenure	Appointed due to
T. Nandakumar Singh[225]	4 August 2013	19 September 2013	47 days	Retirement of CJ T. Meena Kumari
	13 August 2014	26 August 2014	14 days	Elevation of CJ P. C. Pant to Supreme Court
	15 January 2016	31 January 2016	17 days	Retirement of CJ U. N. Singh
U. N. Singh[197]	27 August 2014	18 March 2015[β][j]	204 days	Transferred as CJ
Sudip Ranjan Sen[226]	1 February 2016	23 February 2016	24 days	Retirement of ACJ T. N. Singh
	3 March 2018	20 May 2018	79 days	Retirement of CJ Tarun Agarwala
Hamarsan Singh Thangkhiew	3 November 2019	12 November 2019	10 days	Transfer of CJ A. K. Mittal to Madhya Pradesh
	4 November 2021	23 November 2021	20 days	Retirement of CJ R. V. More
	2 November 2023	10 February 2024	101 days	Retirement of CJ Sanjib Banerjee
	17 August 2024	2 October 2024	47 days	Retirement of CJ S. Vaidyanathan
	6 September 2025	7 October 2025	32 days	Retirement of CJ I. P. Mukerji

The Orissa High Court was established on 3 April 1948 under the Orissa High Court Ordinance, 1948 and has had 35 Chief Justices excluding Acting Chief Justices.

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Total tenure[a][b]	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment	Remarks	Ref..
1	Bira Kishore Ray		26 July 1948	30 October 1951	3 years, 97 days
2	Bachu Jagannadha Das		31 October 1951	3 March 1953	1 year, 124 days		Orissa	26 July 1948	Elevated to Supreme Court
3	Lingaraj Panigrahi		4 March 1953	20 March 1956	3 years, 17 days		Orissa
4	Ramaswamy Laxman Narasimham		21 March 1956	3 January 1965	8 years, 282 days		Orissa		Transferred to Patna	[227]
5	Khaleel Ahmed		18 January 1965	5 April 1967	2 years, 78 days
6	Satya Bhusan Barman		6 April 1967	30 April 1969	2 years, 25 days		Orissa	3 February 1958
7	Gati Krushna Misra		1 May 1969	31 October 1975	6 years, 184 days		Orissa	30 January 1962
8	Siba Narain Sankar		1 November 1975	12 October 1977	1 year, 346 days
9	Sukanta Kishore Ray		13 October 1977	5 November 1980	3 years, 24 days		Orissa	25 October 1967
10	Ranganath Mishra		6 November 1980 Permanent from 16 January 1981	14 March 1983	2 years, 58 days	2 years, 129 days	Orissa	4 July 1969	ACJ: (6 November 1980 – 15 January 1981) Elevated to Supreme Court	[228]
--	Prafulla Kishore Mohanti		14 March 1983	10 August 1983	150 days					[229]
11	Dambarudhar Pathak		11 August 1983	28 February 1986	2 years, 202 days
--	Braja Nath Misra		1 March 1986	30 April 1986	61 days					[230]
12	Hari Lal Agrawal		1 May 1986	31 July 1989	3 years, 92 days
13	Banwari Lal Hansaria		22 February 1990	13 December 1993	3 years, 295 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
14	Girish Thakorlal Nanavati		31 January 1994	27 September 1994	240 days				Transferred to Karnataka
15	Vallabhdas Aidan Mohta		28 September 1994	25 April 1995	210 days		Bombay	27 April 1979
16	Sailendu Nath Phukan		2 August 1996	27 January 1999	2 years, 179 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Susanta Chatterjee		28 January 1999	1 April 1999	64 days				Retired as Acting CJ	[231][232]
--	Arijit Pasayat		2 April 1999	20 September 1999	171 days				Transferred as 18th CJ of Kerala	[233]
17	Biswanath Agrawal		18 November 1999	18 October 2000	336 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
18	Nyaka Yellapa Hanumanthappa		17 February 2001	24 September 2001	220 days
19	Perubhemba Krishna Ayer Balasubramanyan		5 December 2001	9 March 2003	1 year, 95 days		Kerala	4 June 1992	Transferred to Jharkhand
20	Sujit Barman Roy		10 March 2003	21 January 2007	3 years, 325 days
21	Ashok Kumar Ganguly		28 January 2007 Permanent from 2 March 2007	18 May 2008	1 year, 78 days	1 year, 112 days	Calcutta	10 January 1994	ACJ: (28 January 2007 – 1 March 2007) Transferred to Madras	[234]
22	Balbir Singh Chauhan		16 July 2008	10 May 2009	299 days		Allahabad	5 April 1995	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	I. M. Quddusi		11 May 2009	13 November 2009	187 days					[235]
23	Bilal Nazki		14 November 2009	17 November 2009	4 days
--	I. M. Quddusi		18 November 2009	24 March 2010	127 days	314 days[c]
24	Venkate Gopala Gowda		25 March 2010	23 December 2012	2 years, 274 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
25	Chokkalingam Nagappan		27 February 2013	18 September 2013	204 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
26	Adarsh Kumar Goel		12 October 2013	6 July 2014	268 days		Punjab & Haryana	2 July 2001	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Indrajit Mahanty		7 July 2014	5 August 2014	30 days					[236]
27	Amitava Roy		6 August 2014	26 February 2015	205 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Indrajit Mahanty		27 February 2015	3 June 2015	97 days					[237]
28	Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela		4 June 2015	14 February 2016	256 days				Transferred to Bombay
--	Indrajit Mahanty		15 February 2016	25 February 2016	11 days					[238]
29	Vineet Saran		26 February 2016	6 August 2018	2 years, 162 days		Allahabad	14 February 2002	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Indrajit Mahanty		7 August 2018	11 August 2018	5 days	143 days[d]				[239]
30	Kalpesh Satyendra Jhaveri		12 August 2018	4 January 2020	1 year, 146 days
--	Sanju Panda		5 January 2020	26 April 2020	113 days					[240]
31	Mohammad Rafiq		27 April 2020	3 January 2021	252 days				Transferred to Madhya Pradesh
32	S. Muralidhar		4 January 2021	7 August 2023	2 years, 216 days
33	Subhasis Talapatra		8 August 2023	3 October 2023	57 days		Tripura	15 November 2011
--	B. R. Sarangi		4 October 2023	6 February 2024	126 days					[241]
34	Chakradhari Sharan Singh		7 February 2024	19 January 2025	348 days
--	Arindam Sinha		20 January 2025	25 March 2025	65 days
35	Harish Tandon		26 March 2025	Incumbent	360 days		Calcutta	13 April 2010

The Patna High Court was established on 2 September 1916 under Letters Patent issued by the British Crown and has had 46 Chief Justices excluding Acting Chief Justices.

Permanent Chief Justices

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment
1	Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier		1 March 1916	30 October 1917	1 year, 244 days	Allahabad	1910
2	Thomas Fredrick Dawson Miller		31 October 1917	30 March 1928	10 years, 152 days
3	Courtney Terrell		31 March 1928	6 May 1938[RES]	10 years, 37 days	Bar	--
4	Arthur Trevor Harries		10 October 1938	18 January 1943[§][e]	4 years, 101 days	Allahabad	1934
5	Saiyid Fazl Ali		19 January 1943	14 October 1946[‡][α]	3 years, 269 days
6	Clifford Monmohan Agarwala		9 January 1948	24 January 1950	2 years, 16 days
7	Herbert Ribton Meredith		25 January 1950	7 April 1950	73 days
8	Pandit Lakshami Kant Jha		8 April 1950	31 May 1952	2 years, 54 days
9	David Ezra Reuben		1 June 1952	2 September 1953	1 year, 94 days
10	Syed Jafar Imam		3 September 1953	9 January 1955[‡]	1 year, 129 days
11	Sudhansu Kumar Das		10 January 1955	29 April 1956[‡]	1 year, 111 days
12	Vaidyanathier Ramaswami		30 April 1956	3 January 1965[‡]	8 years, 249 days
13	Ramaswamy Laxman Narasimham		4 January 1965[^][f]	2 August 1968	3 years, 212 days	Orissa	26 July 1948
14	Satish Chandra Mishra		9 November 1968	4 September 1970	1 year, 300 days
15	Ujjal Narayan Sinha		5 September 1970	28 September 1972	2 years, 24 days
16	Nand Lall Untwalia		29 September 1972	2 October 1974[‡]	2 years, 4 days
17	Shyam Nandan Prasad Singh		3 October 1974	30 April 1976	1 year, 211 days
18	Krishna Ballabh Narayan Singh		19 July 1976	12 March 1982[§][g]	5 years, 237 days
19	Surjit Singh Sandhawalia		29 November 1983[^][h]	27 July 1987	3 years, 241 days	Punjab & Haryana	28 May 1968
20	Bhagwati Prasad Jha		2 January 1988	2 January 1988	1 day
21	Dipak Kumar Sen		1 May 1988	1 May 1989	1 year, 1 day	Calcutta	5 March 1973
22	Shushil Kumar Jha		19 October 1989	23 October 1989[§][i]	5 days
23	Gangadhar Ganesh Sohani		24 October 1989[^][j]	17 December 1990	1 year, 55 days	Madhya Pradesh	2 June 1973
24	Bimal Chandra Basak		18 March 1991	21 October 1993	2 years, 218 days	Calcutta	10 June 1974
25	Krishnaswami Sundara Paripoornan		24 January 1994	10 June 1994[‡]	141 days	Kerala	23 December 1982
26	Konduswami Venkataswamy		19 September 1994	5 March 1995[‡]	168 days
27	Gopal Ballav Pattanaik		19 May 1995	10 September 1995[‡]	115 days	Orissa	1 June 1983
28	Devinder Pratap Wadhwa		29 September 1995	20 March 1997[‡]	1 year, 173 days
29	Brij Mohan Lal		9 July 1997	6 October 1999	2 years, 90 days	Madhya Pradesh	14 May 1984
30	Ravi Swaroop Dhavan		25 January 2000	22 July 2004	4 years, 180 days	Allahabad	9 January 1986
31	Jitendrakumar Nanalal Bhatt		18 July 2005	16 October 2007	2 years, 91 days
32	Rajesh Balia		5 January 2008	3 March 2008	59 days
33	Rajendra Mal Lodha		13 May 2008	16 December 2008[‡]	218 days
34	Jacob Benjamin Koshy		16 March 2009	12 May 2009	58 days	Kerala	17 January 1996
35	Prafulla Kumar Mishra		12 August 2009	16 September 2009	36 days	Orissa
36	Dipak Misra		23 December 2009	23 May 2010[§][k]	152 days	Orissa	17 January 1996
37	Rekha Manharlal Doshit		21 June 2010	12 December 2014	4 years, 175 days
38	Lingala Narasimha Reddy		2 January 2015	31 July 2015	211 days	Andhra Pradesh	10 September 2001
39	Iqbal Ahmed Ansari		29 July 2016	28 October 2016	92 days
40	Rajendra Menon		15 March 2017	8 August 2018[§][k]	1 year, 147 days	Madhya Pradesh	1 April 2002
41	Mukesh Rasikbhai Shah		12 August 2018	1 November 2018[‡]	82 days
42	Amreshwar Pratap Sahi		17 November 2018	10 November 2019[§][g]	359 days	Allahabad	24 September 2004
43	Sanjay Karol		11 November 2019[^][l]	5 February 2023[‡]	3 years, 87 days
44	Krishnan Vinod Chandran		29 March 2023	15 January 2025[‡]	1 year, 293 days	Kerala	8 November 2011
45	Vipul Manubhai Pancholi		21 July 2025	28 August 2025[‡]	39 days
46	Pavankumar Bhimappa Bajanthri		21 September 2025	22 October 2025	32 days
47	Sangam Kumar Sahoo		7 January 2026	Incumbent	73 days	Orissa	2 July 2014

Website of Bihar State Legal Services Authority contains list of its former patron in chiefs who always had been the chief justice of Patna High Court (whether acting or permanent). Thus the list contained in this website would serve as primary reference for acting chief justices after 1999.^[242]

Acting Chief Justices

Name	From	To	Tenure	Appointed due to	Ref..
Fazl Ali	7 May 1938	9 October 1938	156 days	Resignation of CJ Courtney Terrell	[243]
K. B. N. Singh	1 May 1976	18 July 1976[β][m]	79 days	Retirement of CJ Shyam Nandan Prasad Singh	[244]
Syed Sarwar Ali	13 March 1982	28 November 1983	1 year, 261 days	Transfer of CJ K. B. N. Singh to Madras	[245]
Shushil Kumar Jha	3 January 1988	30 April 1988	119 days	Retirement of CJ Bhagwati Prasad Jha	[197]
	2 May 1989	18 October 1989[β][m]	170 days	Retirement of CJ D. K. Sen
Nagendra Prasad Singh	18 December 1990	17 March 1991	90 days	Retirement of CJ G. G. Sohani	[246]
B. N. Agrawal	7 October 1999	17 November 1999[β][n]	42 days	Retirement of CJ B. M. Lal	[247]
B. P. Singh	18 November 1999	24 January 2000	68 days	Elevation of ACJ B. N. Agrawal as 17th CJ of Orissa	[248]
Nagendra Rai	22 July 2004	17 July 2005	361 days	Retirement of CJ R. S. Dhavan
Narayan Roy	16 October 2007	4 January 2008[β][o]	81 days	Retirement of CJ J. N. Bhatt
C. K. Prasad	4 March 2008	12 May 2008	70 days	Retirement of CJ Rajesh Balia	[249]
	17 December 2008	15 March 2009[β][p]	89 days	Elevation of CJ R. M. Lodha to Supreme Court
S. K. Singh	13 May 2009	11 August 2009	91 days	Retirement of CJ J. B. Koshy
	17 September 2009	22 December 2009	97 days	Retirement of CJ P. K. Mishra
	24 May 2010	20 June 2010	28 days	Transfer of CJ Dipak Misra to Delhi
Iqbal Ahmed Ansari	13 December 2014	1 January 2015	20 days	Retirement of CJ R. M. Doshit
	1 August 2015	28 July 2016[β][m]	363 days	Retirement of CJ L. N. Reddy
Hemant Gupta	29 October 2016	14 March 2017[β][q]	137 days	Retirement of CJ I. A. Ansari
Ravi Ranjan	9 August 2018	11 August 2018	3 days	Transfer of CJ Rajendra Menon to Delhi
	2 November 2018	16 November 2018	15 days	Elevation of CJ M. R. Shah to Supreme Court
C. S. Singh	6 February 2023	28 March 2023	51 days	Elevation of CJ Sanjay Karol to Supreme Court
Ashutosh Kumar	16 January 2025	20 July 2025[β][r]	186 days	Elevation of CJ K. V. Chandran to Supreme Court
P. B. Bajanthri	29 August 2025	20 September 2025[β][m]	23 days	Elevation of CJ V. M. Pancholi to Supreme Court
Sudhir Singh	23 October 2025	6 January 2026	76 days	Retirement of CJ P. B. Bajanthri

The Punjab and Haryana High Court was established on 15 August 1947 under the Punjab High Court Ordinance, 1947 and has had 36 Chief Justices excluding Acting Chief Justices.^[250]

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Total tenure[a][b]	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment	Remarks	Ref..
1	Ram Lall		15 August 1947	18 January 1949	1 year, 157 days		Lahore[ζ]	1938
2	Sudhi Ranjan Das		19 January 1949	20 January 1950	1 year, 2 days		Calcutta	1 December 1942	Elevated to Supreme Court
3	Eric Weston		21 January 1950	8 December 1952	2 years, 323 days		Bombay	1943
4	Amar Nath Bhandari		9 December 1952	18 November 1959	6 years, 345 days		Lahore[ζ]	1944
5	Gopal Das Khosla		19 November 1959	14 December 1961	2 years, 26 days		Lahore[ζ]	1 November 1944
6	Donald Falshaw		15 December 1961	29 May 1966	4 years, 166 days		Lahore[ζ]	26 September 1946
7	Mehar Singh		30 May 1966	14 August 1970	4 years, 77 days		Punjab & Haryana	24 December 1953
8	Harbans Singh		15 August 1970	8 April 1974	3 years, 237 days		Punjab & Haryana	11 August 1958
9	Daya Krishan Mahajan		10 April 1974	10 May 1974	31 days		Punjab & Haryana	11 May 1959
10	Ranjit Singh Narula		11 May 1974	31 October 1977	3 years, 174 days		Punjab & Haryana	1 April 1965
11	Anand Dev Koshal		1 November 1977	16 July 1978	258 days		Punjab & Haryana	28 May 1968	Elevated to Supreme Court
12	Surjit Singh Sandhawalia		17 July 1978	28 November 1983	5 years, 135 days		Punjab & Haryana		Transferred to Patna
13	Prem Chand Jain		28 November 1983 Permanent from 1 August 1985	17 August 1986	1 year, 17 days	2 years, 263 days	Punjab & Haryana	24 June 1968	ACJ: (28 November 1983 – 31 July 1985) Transferred to Karnataka	[251]
14	Hariday Nath Seth		18 August 1986	14 October 1987	1 year, 58 days		Allahabad	7 July 1969
15	Debi Singh Tewatia		15 October 1987	29 October 1987	15 days		Punjab & Haryana	6 February 1970	Transferred to Calcutta
--	R. N. Mittal		30 October 1987	11 November 1987	13 days
16	Veeraswami Ramaswami		12 November 1987	6 October 1989	1 year, 329 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
17	Shanti Sarup Dewan		6 October 1989 Permanent from 24 October 1989	31 December 1989	69 days	87 days	Punjab & Haryana	14 December 1977	ACJ: (6 October 1989 – 23 October 1989)
18	Jitendra Vir Gupta		1 January 1990 Permanent from 9 July 1990	1 May 1991	297 days	1 year, 121 days	Punjab & Haryana	19 February 1979	ACJ: (1 January 1990 – 8 July 1990)
--	G. C. Mittal		2 May 1991	4 August 1991	95 days				Transferred as 16th CJ of Delhi
--	I. S. Tiwana		5 August 1991	19 September 1991	46 days
19	Bipin Chandra Verma		19 September 1991	2 May 1992	227 days		Madhya Pradesh	21 August 1978
20	Mandagadde Rama Jois		3 May 1992	31 August 1992	121 days
--	S. S. Sodhi		1 September 1992	12 November 1992	73 days
21	Sudarshan Dayal Aggarwal		13 November 1992	14 January 1994	1 year, 63 days		Allahabad	17 November 1977
22	Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar		16 January 1994	27 March 1996	2 years, 72 days		Bombay	25 April 1978	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	R. P. Sethi		27 March 1996	27 June 1996	93 days				Transferred as 18th CJ of Karnataka
--	M. S. Liberhan		28 June 1996	30 July 1996	33 days
23	Kumaran Sreedharan		30 July 1996	18 October 1997	1 year, 81 days		Kerala	10 September 1985	Transferred to Gujarat
--	Amarjeet Chaudhary		19 October 1997	7 November 1997	20 days
24	A. B. Saharya		7 November 1997	14 September 2002	4 years, 312 days
--	G. S. Singhvi		15 September 2002	14 October 2002	30 days
25	Binod Kumar Roy		14 October 2002	21 February 2005	2 years, 131 days				Transferred to Gauhati
--	G. S. Singhvi		21 February 2005	25 February 2005	5 days	35 days			Transferred as Judge to Gujarat
--	H. S. Bedi		26 February 2005	11 March 2005	14 days
26	Devinder Kumar Jain		11 March 2005	9 April 2006	1 year, 30 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	H. S. Bedi		10 April 2006	2 October 2006	176 days	190 days			Transferred as 36th CJ of Bombay
--	S. S. Nijjar		3 October 2006	27 November 2006	56 days
27	Vijender Jain		28 November 2006	1 August 2008	1 year, 248 days
--	J. S. Khehar		2 August 2008	10 August 2008	9 days
28	Tirath Singh Thakur		11 August 2008	16 November 2009	1 year, 98 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	J. S. Khehar		17 November 2009	28 November 2009	12 days	21 days			Transferred as 7th CJ of Uttarakhand
--	M. S. Gill		29 November 2009	5 December 2009	7 days
29	Mukul Mudgal		5 December 2009	3 January 2011	1 year, 30 days
30	Ranjan Gogoi		4 January 2011 Permanent from 12 February 2011	22 April 2012	1 year, 71 days	1 year, 110 days			ACJ: (4 January 2011 – 11 February 2011) Elevated to Supreme Court
--	M. M. Kumar		23 April 2012	8 June 2012	47 days				Transferred as 30th CJ of Jammu and Kashmir
--	Jasbir Singh		9 June 2012	23 September 2012	107 days
31	Arjan Kumar Sikri		23 September 2012	11 April 2013	201 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Jasbir Singh		12 April 2013	31 May 2013	50 days
32	Sanjay Kishan Kaul		1 June 2013	25 July 2014	1 year, 55 days				Transferred to Madras
--	Ashutosh Mohunta		26 July 2014	15 December 2014	143 days
33	Shiavax Jal Vazifdar		15 December 2014 Permanent from 7 August 2016	3 May 2018	1 year, 270 days	3 years, 140 days	Bombay	22 January 2001	ACJ: (15 December 2014 – 6 August 2016)
--	A. K. Mittal		4 May 2018	2 June 2018	30 days
34	Krishna Murari		2 June 2018	22 September 2019	1 year, 113 days		Allahabad	7 January 2004	Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Rajeev Sharma		23 September 2019	5 October 2019	13 days					[252]
35	Ravi Shankar Jha		6 October 2019	13 October 2023	4 years, 8 days		Madhya Pradesh	18 October 2005
--	Ritu Bahri		14 October 2023	3 February 2024	112 days				Transferred as 13th CJ of Uttarakhand
--	G. S. Sandhawalia		4 February 2024	8 July 2024	156 days
36	Sheel Nagu		9 July 2024	Incumbent	1 year, 255 days		Madhya Pradesh	27 May 2011

The Rajasthan High Court was established on 21 June 1949 under the Rajasthan High Court Ordinance, 1949 and has had 43 Chief Justices excluding Acting Chief Justices.

Permanent Chief Justices

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Parent High Court	Date of Appointment
1	Kamalkanta Verma		29 August 1949	24 January 1950	149 days	Allahabad	1937
2	Kailas Nath Wanchoo		2 January 1951	10 August 1958[‡]	7 years, 221 days	Allahabad	17 February 1947
3	Sarju Prasad		28 February 1959[^][c]	10 October 1961	2 years, 225 days
4	Jawan Singh Ranawat		11 October 1961	31 May 1963	1 year, 233 days
5	Durga Shakti Dave		1 June 1963	17 December 1968	5 years, 200 days
6	Daulat Mal Bhandari		18 December 1968	15 December 1969	363 days
7	Jagat Narayan		16 December 1969	13 February 1973	3 years, 60 days
8	Bhagwati Prasad Beri		14 February 1973	16 February 1975	2 years, 3 days
9	Prakash Narayan Shinghal		17 February 1975	5 November 1975[‡]	262 days
10	Vedpal Tyagi		6 November 1975	27 December 1977	2 years, 52 days
11	Closepet Honniah		27 April 1978	22 September 1978	149 days
12	Chand Mal Lodha		12 March 1979[^][c]	9 July 1980	1 year, 120 days
13	Kalyan Dutt Sharma		7 January 1981	22 October 1983	2 years, 289 days
14	Pradyot Kumar Banerjee		23 October 1983	30 September 1985	1 year, 343 days	Calcutta	15 September 1969
15	Dwarka Prasad Gupta		12 April 1986	31 July 1986	111 days
16	Jagdish Sharan Verma		1 September 1986[^][d]	22 May 1989[‡]	2 years, 264 days	Madhya Pradesh	12 September 1972
17	Krishna Chandra Agarwal		15 April 1990	7 April 1994[§][e]	3 years, 358 days	Allahabad	6 August 1973
18	Gokal Chand Mittal		12 April 1994[^][f]	3 March 1995	326 days	Punjab & Haryana	19 February 1979
19	Amratlal Parmananddas Ravani		4 April 1995	10 September 1996	1 year, 160 days
20	Mukul Gopal Mukherjee		19 September 1996	24 December 1997	1 year, 97 days	Calcutta	9 January 1984
21	Shivaraj Virupanna Patil		22 January 1999	14 March 2000[‡]	1 year, 53 days
22	Arunachalam R. Lakshmanan		29 May 2000	25 November 2001[§][g]	1 year, 181 days
23	Arun Kumar		2 December 2001	2 October 2002[‡]	305 days
24	Anil Dev Singh		24 December 2002	22 October 2004	1 year, 304 days
25	Sachchidanand Jha		12 October 2005[^][h]	15 June 2007	1 year, 247 days
26	Jagdish Madhurlal Panchal		16 September 2007	11 November 2007[‡]	57 days
27	Narayan Roy		5 January 2008	31 January 2009	1 year, 27 days
28	Deepak Verma		6 March 2009	10 May 2009[‡]	69 days	Madhya Pradesh	15 December 1994
29	Jagadish Bhalla		10 August 2009[^][i]	31 October 2010	1 year, 83 days	Allahabad	5 April 1995
30	Arun Kumar Mishra		26 November 2010	13 December 2012[§][e]	2 years, 18 days	Madhya Pradesh	25 October 1999
31	Amitava Roy		2 January 2013	5 August 2014[§][j]	1 year, 216 days
32	Sunil Ambwani		24 March 2015	22 August 2015	152 days	Allahabad	24 April 2001
33	Satish Kumar Mittal		5 March 2016	14 April 2016	41 days	Punjab & Haryana	2 July 2002
34	Navin Sinha		14 May 2016[^][k]	16 February 2017[‡]	279 days
35	Pradeep Nandrajog		2 April 2017	6 April 2019[§][l]	2 years, 5 days
36	Shripathi Ravindra Bhat		5 May 2019	23 September 2019[‡]	142 days
37	Indrajit Mahanty		6 October 2019	11 October 2021[§][m]	2 years, 6 days	Orissa	31 March 2006
38	Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi		12 October 2021[^][n]	6 March 2022	146 days
39	Sambhaji Shiwaji Shinde		21 June 2022	1 August 2022	42 days	Bombay	17 March 2008
40	Pankaj Mithal		14 October 2022[^][h]	5 February 2023[‡]	115 days	Allahabad	7 July 2006
41	Augustine George Masih		30 May 2023	8 November 2023[‡]	163 days	Punjab & Haryana	10 July 2008
42	Manindra Mohan Shrivastava		6 February 2024	20 July 2025[§][o]	1 year, 165 days
43	Kalpathi Rajendran Shriram		21 July 2025[^][p]	27 September 2025	69 days	Bombay	21 June 2013
Acting	Sanjeev Prakash Sharma		28 September 2025	Incumbent	174 days

Website of Rajasthan State Legal Services Authority contains list of its former patron in chiefs who always had been the chief justice of Rajasthan High Court (whether acting or permanent). Thus the list contained in this website would serve as primary reference for acting chief justices after 1997.^[253]

Acting Chief Justices

Name	From	To	Tenure	Appointed due to
Nawal Kishore[254]	25 January 1950	1 January 1951	342 days	Retirement of CJ Kamalkanta Verma
K. L. Bapna[255]	11 August 1958	27 February 1959	201 days	Elevation of CJ K. N. Wanchoo to Supreme Court
A. P. Sen[256]	28 December 1977	28 February 1978[β][q]	63 days	Retirement of CJ Vedpal Tyagi
Mohan Lal Joshi[257]	1 March 1978	26 April 1978	57 days	Elevation of ACJ A. P. Sen as 7th CJ of Madhya Pradesh
	23 September 1978	11 March 1979	170 days	Retirement of CJ C. Honniah
K. D. Sharma[258]	10 July 1980	6 January 1981[β][r]	181 days	Retirement of CJ C. M. Lodha
D. P. Gupta[259]	1 October 1985	11 April 1986[β][r]	193 days	Retirement of CJ P. K. Banerjee
G. M. Lodha[260]	1 August 1986	31 August 1986	31 days	Retirement of CJ D. P. Gupta
M. C. Jain[261]	23 May 1989	14 April 1990	327 days	Elevation of CJ J. S. Verma to Supreme Court
Maheshwari Prasad Singh	25 December 1997	9 April 1998	107 days	Retirement of CJ M. G. Mukherjee
Navrang Lal Tibrewal	10 April 1998	25 May 1998	46 days	Retirement of ACJ M. P. Singh
	16 January 1999	17 January 1999	2 days	Reverted from position of Acting Governor to ACJ
Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje	25 May 1998	15 January 1999	236 days	Appointment of ACJ N. L. Tibrewal as Acting Governor of Rajasthan
	17 January 1999	21 January 1999	5 days	Retirement of ACJ N. L. Tibrewal
	15 March 2000	28 May 2000	75 days	Elevation of CJ S. V. Patil to Supreme Court
Megh Raj Calla	26 November 2001	1 December 2001	6 days	Transfer of CJ A. R. Lakshmanan to Undivided Andhra Pradesh
	3 October 2002	23 December 2002	82 days	Elevation of CJ Arun Kumar to Supreme Court
Y. R. Meena	23 October 2004	11 October 2005	354 days	Retirement of CJ Anil Dev Singh
Rajesh Balia	16 June 2007	15 July 2007	30 days	Retirement of CJ Sachchidanand Jha
	12 November 2007	4 January 2008[β][s]	54 days	Elevation of CJ J. M. Panchal to Supreme Court
J. M. Panchal	16 July 2007	15 September 2007[β][r]	57 days	Transferred as ACJ
Rattan Chand Gandhi	1 February 2009	5 March 2009	33 days	Retirement of CJ Narayan Roy
	11 May 2009	9 August 2009	91 days	Elevation of CJ Deepak Verma to Supreme Court
A. K. Mishra	1 November 2010	25 November 2010[β][r]	25 days	Retirement of CJ Jagadish Bhalla
N. K. Jain	14 December 2012	2 January 2013	20 days	Transfer of CJ A. K. Mishra to Calcutta
Sunil Ambwani	6 August 2014	23 March 2015[β][r]	230 days	Transfer of CJ Amitava Roy to Orissa
Ajit Singh	23 August 2015	4 March 2016[β][t]	196 days	Retirement of CJ Sunil Ambwani
Ajay Rastogi	15 April 2016	13 May 2016	29 days	Retirement of CJ Satish Kumar Mittal
K. S. Jhaveri	17 February 2017	1 April 2017	44 days	Elevation of CJ Navin Sinha to Supreme Court
Mohammad Rafiq	7 April 2019	4 May 2019	28 days	Transfer of CJ Pradeep Nandrajog to Bombay
	23 September 2019	5 October 2019	13 days	Elevation of CJ S. R. Bhat to Supreme Court
Manindra Mohan Shrivastava	7 March 2022	20 June 2022	106 days	Retirement of CJ A. A. Kureshi
	2 August 2022	13 October 2022	47 days	Retirement of CJ S. S. Shinde
	6 February 2023	29 May 2023	113 days	Elevation of CJ Pankaj Mithal to Supreme Court
	9 November 2023	5 February 2024[β][r]	89 days	Elevation of CJ A. G. Masih to Supreme Court

The Sikkim High Court was established on 16 May 1975 under the 36th Amendment to the Indian Constitution and has had 24 Chief Justices excluding Acting Chief Justices.

Permanent Chief Justices

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment
1	Manmohan Singh Gujral		7 May 1976	14 March 1983	6 years, 312 days	Punjab & Haryana	21 August 1969
2	Mohan Lall Shrimal		17 December 1983	3 January 1985	1 year, 18 days	Rajasthan
3	Jugal Kishore Mohanty		21 January 1986	4 January 1989	2 years, 350 days	Orissa	12 July 1978
4	Braja Nath Misra		20 January 1990	8 November 1992	2 years, 294 days	Orissa	5 January 1981
5	Surendra Nath Bhargava		20 January 1993	10 February 1996	3 years, 22 days
6	Krishna Murari Agarwal		15 February 1996	26 October 1996	255 days	Madhya Pradesh	14 May 1984
7	Kanniappa Arumuga Thanikkachallam		27 August 1997	26 September 1997	31 days
8	Repusudan Dayal		3 February 1999	17 May 2003	4 years, 104 days	Sikkim	10 May 1984
9	Radha Krishna Patra		9 July 2003	23 November 2004	1 year, 138 days	Orissa	22 June 1992
10	Binod Kumar Roy		30 September 2005[^][a]	26 December 2006	1 year, 88 days	Patna
11	Ajoy Nath Ray		27 January 2007[^][b]	30 October 2008	1 year, 278 days	Calcutta	6 August 1990
12	Aftab Hussain Saikia		7 March 2009	7 April 2010[§][c]	1 year, 32 days	Gauhati
13	Barin Ghosh		13 April 2010[^][d]	5 August 2010[§][e]	115 days	Calcutta	14 July 1995
14	Paul Daniel Dinakaran Premkumar		9 August 2010[^][f]	29 July 2011[RES]	355 days
15	Permod Kohli		12 December 2011	28 February 2013	1 year, 79 days
16	Pius Chakkalayil Kuriakose		28 March 2013	1 October 2013	188 days	Kerala	9 September 2002
17	Narendra Kumar Jain		7 January 2014	7 October 2014	274 days
18	Sunil Kumar Sinha		30 March 2015	6 July 2016	1 year, 99 days
19	Satish Kumar Agnihotri		22 September 2016	30 June 2018	1 year, 282 days
20	Vijay Kumar Bist		30 October 2018	16 September 2019	322 days
21	Arup Kumar Goswami		15 October 2019	5 January 2021[§][g]	1 year, 83 days
22	Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari		6 January 2021[^][h]	30 August 2021[‡]	237 days	Madhya Pradesh	25 November 2005
23	Biswanath Somadder		12 October 2021[^][i]	14 December 2025	4 years, 64 days	Calcutta	22 June 2006
24	Muhamed Mustaque Ayumantakath		4 January 2026	Incumbent	76 days	Kerala	23 January 2014

Acting Chief Justices

Name	From	To	Tenure	Appointed due to	Ref..
Rajinder Sachar	16 May 1975	6 May 1976	357 days	Creation of New HC	[262]
Anandamoy Bhattacharjee	14 March 1983	16 December 1983	278 days	Retirement of CJ M. S. Gujral	[74]
	4 January 1985	20 January 1986	1 year, 17 days	Retirement of CJ M. L. Shrimal
Repusudan Dayal	5 January 1989	19 January 1990	1 year, 15 days	Retirement of CJ J. K. Mohanty
	9 November 1992	19 January 1993	72 days	Retirement of CJ B. N. Misra
Malay Sengupta	27 October 1996	26 August 1997	304 days	Retirement of CJ K. M. Agarwal
Anup Deb	27 December 1997	2 February 1999	1 year, 38 days	Resignation/ Retirement or Transfer of the then ACJ	[263]
Nongthomban Surajmani Singh	18 May 2003	8 July 2003	52 days	Retirement of CJ Repusudan Dayal	[264]
	24 November 2004	29 September 2005	310 days	Retirement of CJ R. K. Patra
	27 December 2006	26 January 2007	31 days	Retirement of CJ B. K. Roy
A. P. Subba	31 October 2008	6 March 2009	127 days	Retirement of CJ A. N. Ray	[265]
Sonam Phinsto Wangdi	30 July 2011	11 December 2011	135 days	Resignation of CJ P. D. Dinakaran	[266]
	1 March 2013	27 March 2013	27 days	Retirement of CJ Permod Kohli
N. K. Jain	2 October 2013	6 January 2014[β][j]	97 days	Retirement of CJ P. C. Kuriakose
S. K. Sinha	8 October 2014	29 March 2015[β][j]	173 days	Retirement of CJ N. K. Jain
S. K. Agnihotri	7 July 2016	21 September 2016[β][j]	77 days	Retirement of CJ S. K. Sinha
Meenakshi Madan Rai	1 July 2018	29 October 2018	121 days	Retirement of CJ S. K. Agnihotri
	17 September 2019	14 October 2019	28 days	Retirement of CJ V. K. Bist
	1 September 2021	11 October 2021	41 days	Elevation of CJ J. K. Maheshwari to Supreme Court
	15 December 2025	3 January 2026	20 days	Retirement of CJ Biswanath Somadder

The Telangana High Court was established on 1 January 2019 under Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 and has had 7 Chief Justices excluding Acting Chief Justices.

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Total tenure[a][b]	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment	Remarks	Ref..
1	Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan		1 January 2019	2 April 2019	92 days		Kerala	14 October 2004	Transferred to Calcutta
2	Raghvendra Singh Chauhan		3 April 2019 Permanent from 22 June 2019	6 January 2021	1 year, 199 days	1 year, 279 days			ACJ: (3 April 2019 – 21 June 2019) Transferred to Uttarakhand	[267]
3	Hima Kohli		7 January 2021	30 August 2021	236 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	M. S. R. Rao		31 August 2021	10 October 2021	41 days				Transferred as Judge to Punjab & Haryana	[143]
4	Satish Chandra Sharma		11 October 2021	27 June 2022	260 days		Madhya Pradesh	18 January 2008	Transferred to Delhi
5	Ujjal Bhuyan		28 June 2022	13 July 2023	1 year, 16 days				Elevated to Supreme Court
--	P. N. Rao		14 July 2023	14 July 2023	1 day				Retired as Acting CJ	[268]
--	A. K. Shavili		15 July 2023	23 July 2023	9 days					[269]
6	Alok Aradhe		23 July 2023	20 January 2025	1 year, 182 days		Madhya Pradesh	29 December 2009	Transferred to Bombay
--	Sujoy Paul		21 January 2025	17 July 2025	178 days				Transferred as Judge to Calcutta
--	P. S. Koshy		18 July 2025	19 July 2025	2 days
7	Aparesh Kumar Singh		19 July 2025	Incumbent	245 days			24 January 2012

The Tripura High Court was established on 26 March 2013 under the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2012 and has had 9 Chief Justices excluding Acting Chief Justices.

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Total tenure[a][b]	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment	Remarks	Ref..
1	Deepak Gupta		23 March 2013	15 May 2016	3 years, 54 days		Himachal Pradesh		Transferred to Chhattisgarh
2	Tinilanthang Vaiphei		16 May 2016 Permanent from 21 September 2016	28 February 2018	1 year, 161 days	1 year, 289 days	Gauhati		ACJ: (16 May 2016 – 20 September 2016)
3	Ajay Rastogi		1 March 2018	2 November 2018	247 days		Rajasthan		Elevated to Supreme Court
--	Subhasis Talapatra		2 November 2018	13 November 2018	12 days		Gauhati			[113]
4	Sanjay Karol		14 November 2018	10 November 2019	362 days		Himachal Pradesh		Transferred to Patna
--	Subhasis Talapatra		11 November 2019	15 November 2019	5 days	17 days	Gauhati
5	Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi		16 November 2019	11 October 2021	1 year, 330 days		Gujarat		Transferred to Rajasthan
6	Indrajit Mahanty		12 October 2021	10 November 2022	1 year, 30 days		Orissa	31 March 2006
--	T. A. Goud		11 November 2022	14 February 2023	96 days		Telangana
7	Jaswant Singh		15 February 2023	22 February 2023	8 days		Punjab & Haryana	5 December 2007
--	T. A. Goud		23 February 2023	16 April 2023	53 days		Telangana
8	Aparesh Kumar Singh		17 April 2023	18 July 2025	2 years, 93 days		Jharkhand		Transferred to Telangana
--	T. A. Goud		18 July 2025	21 July 2025	4 days	153 days	Telangana
9	Mamidanna Satyaratna Ramachandra Rao		22 July 2025	Incumbent	242 days		Telangana	29 June 2012

The Uttarakhand High Court was established on 9 November 2000 under Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 and has had 15 Chief Justices excluding Acting Chief Justices.

Permanent Chief Justices

Sr. No.	Name	Portrait	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Parent High Court	Date of initial Appointment
1	Ashok Desai		6 December 2000	31 March 2003[RES]	2 years, 116 days	Bombay	21 November 1986
2	Sarosh Homi Kapadia		5 August 2003	17 December 2003[‡]	135 days	Bombay	8 October 1991
3	Vikas Sridhar Sirpurkar		25 July 2004	19 March 2005[§][c]	238 days	Bombay	9 November 1992
4	Cyriac Joseph		20 March 2005	6 January 2006[§][d]	293 days	Kerala	6 July 1994
5	Rajeev Gupta		14 January 2006[^][e]	1 February 2008[§][f]	2 years, 19 days	Madhya Pradesh	27 September 1994
6	Vinod Kumar Gupta		2 February 2008[^][g]	9 September 2009	1 year, 220 days	Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh
7	Jagdish Singh Khehar		29 November 2009	7 August 2010[§][d]	252 days	Punjab & Haryana	8 February 1999
8	Barin Ghosh		12 August 2010[^][h]	4 June 2014	3 years, 297 days	Calcutta	14 July 1995
9	Kuttiyil Mathew Joseph		31 July 2014	6 August 2018[‡]	4 years, 7 days	Kerala	14 October 2004
10	Ramesh Ranganathan		2 November 2018	27 July 2020	1 year, 269 days	Andhra Pradesh	26 May 2005
11	Raghvendra Singh Chauhan		7 January 2021[^][i]	23 December 2021	351 days	Rajasthan
12	Vipin Sanghi		28 June 2022	26 October 2023	1 year, 121 days	Delhi
13	Ritu Bahri		4 February 2024	10 October 2024	250 days	Punjab & Haryana	16 August 2010
14	Guhanathan Narendar		26 December 2024	9 January 2026	1 year, 15 days	Karnataka
15	Manoj Kumar Gupta		10 January 2026	Incumbent	70 days	Allahabad	12 April 2013

Acting Chief Justices

Name	From	To	Tenure	Appointed due to	Ref..
Ashok Desai	9 November 2000	5 December 2000[β][j]	27 days	Creation of New HC
Prakash Chandra Verma	1 April 2003	4 August 2003	126 days	Resignation of CJ Ashok Desai	[270]
	18 December 2003	24 July 2004	220 days	Elevation of CJ S. H. Kapadia to Supreme Court
	7 January 2006	13 January 2006	7 days	Transfer of CJ Cyriac Joseph to Karnataka
B. C. Kandapal	10 September 2009	25 September 2009	16 days	Retirement of CJ V. K. Gupta	[271]
Tarun Agarwala	25 September 2009	28 November 2009	65 days	Transferred as ACJ	[272]
V. K. Bist	5 June 2014	30 July 2014	56 days	Retirement of CJ Barin Ghosh	[273]
Rajeev Sharma	7 August 2018	2 November 2018	87 days	Elevation of CJ K. M. Joseph to Supreme Court	[274]
Ravi Malimath	28 July 2020	6 January 2021	132 days	Retirement of CJ Ramesh Ranganathan
S. K. Mishra	24 December 2021	28 June 2022	187 days	Retirement of CJ R. S. Chauhan	[275]
Manoj Kumar Tiwari	27 October 2023	3 February 2024	100 days	Retirement of CJ Vipin Sanghi
	11 October 2024	25 December 2024	76 days	Retirement of CJ Ritu Bahri

Name	Initially Chief Justice of	Transferred to	Date of initial Appointment as Chief Justice	Date of Retirement from final High Court	Total tenure as CJ
Soumen Sen	Meghalaya	Kerala	8 October 2025	Incumbent	164 days
K. R. Shriram	Madras	Rajasthan	27 September 2024	27 September 2025	1 year, 1 day
M. M. Shrivastava	Rajasthan	Madras	5 February 2024	Incumbent	2 years, 44 days
D. K. Upadhyaya	Bombay	Delhi	29 July 2023	Incumbent	2 years, 235 days
Alok Aradhe	Telangana	Bombay	23 July 2023	28 August 2025[‡]	2 years, 37 days
Aparesh Kumar Singh	Tripura	Telangana	17 April 2023	Incumbent	2 years, 328 days
Satish Chandra Sharma	Telangana	Delhi	11 October 2021	8 November 2023[‡]	2 years, 29 days
Pankaj Mithal	Jammu & Kashmir	Rajasthan	4 January 2021	5 February 2023[‡]	2 years, 33 days
Sanjib Banerjee	Madras	Meghalaya	4 January 2021	1 November 2023	2 years, 302 days
Biswanath Somadder	Meghalaya	Sikkim	27 April 2020	14 December 2025	5 years, 232 days
Akil A. Kureshi	Tripura	Rajasthan	16 November 2019	6 March 2022	2 years, 111 days
J. K. Maheshwari	Andhra Pradesh	Sikkim	7 October 2019	30 August 2021[‡]	1 year, 328 days
Indrajit Mahanty	Rajasthan	Tripura	6 October 2019	10 November 2022	3 years, 36 days
R. S. Chauhan	Telangana	Uttarakhand	22 June 2019	23 December 2021	2 years, 185 days
A. K. Mittal	Meghalaya	Madhya Pradesh	28 February 2019	29 September 2020	1 year, 214 days
A. P. Sahi	Patna	Madras	17 November 2018	31 December 2020	2 years, 45 days
Sanjay Karol	Tripura	Patna	14 November 2018	5 February 2023[‡]	4 years, 84 days
Pradeep Nandrajog	Rajasthan	Bombay	2 April 2017	23 February 2020	2 years, 328 days
Rajendra Menon	Patna	Delhi	15 March 2017	6 June 2019	2 years, 84 days
Dinesh Maheshwari	Meghalaya	Karnataka	24 February 2016	17 January 2019[‡]	2 years, 331 days
Navin Sinha	Chhattisgarh	Rajasthan	9 April 2015	17 February 2017[‡]	1 year, 315 days
Sanjay Kishan Kaul	Punjab and Haryana	Madras	1 June 2013	16 February 2017[‡]	3 years, 261 days
A. M. Khanwilkar	Himachal Pradesh	Madhya Pradesh	4 April 2013	12 May 2016[‡]	3 years, 39 days
Deepak Gupta	Tripura	Chhattisgarh	23 March 2013	16 February 2017[‡]	3 years, 331 days
A. M. Sapre	Manipur	Gauhati	23 March 2013	12 August 2014[‡]	1 year, 164 days
Amitava Roy	Rajasthan	Orissa	2 January 2013	26 February 2015[‡]	2 years, 56 days
A. K. Goel	Gauhati	Orissa	20 December 2011	6 July 2014[‡]	2 years, 199 days
Arun Mishra	Rajasthan	Calcutta	26 November 2010	6 July 2014[‡]	3 years, 223 days
M. S. Shah	Calcutta	Bombay	24 December 2009	8 September 2015	5 years, 259 days
Dipak Misra	Patna	Delhi	23 December 2009	9 October 2011[‡]	1 year, 291 days
Syed Rafat Alam	Madhya Pradesh	Allahabad	20 December 2009	7 August 2012	2 years, 232 days
J. S. Khehar	Uttarakhand	Karnataka	29 November 2009	12 September 2011[‡]	1 year, 288 days
A. H. Saikia	Sikkim	Jammu & Kashmir	7 March 2009	6 April 2011	2 years, 31 days
P. D. Dinakaran	Karnataka	Sikkim	8 August 2008	29 July 2011[RES]	2 years, 356 days
Jagadish Bhalla	Himachal Pradesh	Rajasthan	2 February 2008	31 October 2010	2 years, 272 days
K. S. Radhakrishnan	Jammu & Kashmir	Gujarat	7 January 2008	16 November 2009[‡]	1 year, 314 days
Jasti Chelameswar	Gauhati	Kerala	3 May 2007	9 October 2011[‡]	4 years, 160 days
H. L. Gokhale	Allahabad	Madras	7 March 2007	28 April 2010[‡]	3 years, 53 days
A. K. Ganguly	Orissa	Madras	2 March 2007	15 December 2008[‡]	1 year, 289 days
H. L. Dattu	Chhattisgarh	Kerala	12 February 2007	16 December 2008[‡]	1 year, 309 days
A. P. Shah	Madras	Delhi	12 November 2005	12 February 2010	4 years, 93 days
Cyriac Joseph	Uttarakhand	Karnataka	20 March 2005	6 July 2008[‡]	3 years, 109 days
A. K. Patnaik	Chhattisgarh	Madhya Pradesh	14 March 2005	16 November 2009[‡]	4 years, 248 days
Ajoy Nath Ray	Allahabad	Sikkim	11 January 2005	30 October 2008	3 years, 294 days
Markandey Katju	Madras	Delhi	28 November 2004	9 April 2006[‡]	1 year, 133 days
V. S. Sirpurkar	Uttarakhand	Calcutta	25 July 2004	11 January 2007[‡]	2 years, 171 days
N. K. Sodhi	Kerala	Karnataka	5 April 2004	29 November 2005	1 year, 239 days
Sachchidanand Jha	Jammu & Kashmir	Rajasthan	4 February 2004	15 June 2007	3 years, 132 days
Babulal Chandulal Patel	Jammu & Kashmir	Delhi	15 May 2002	7 August 2005	3 years, 85 days
P. K. Balasubramanyan	Orissa	Jharkhand	5 December 2001	26 August 2004[‡]	2 years, 266 days
B. Subhashan Reddy	Madras	Kerala	12 September 2001	2 March 2005	3 years, 172 days
W. A. Shishak	Chhattisgarh	Himachal Pradesh	5 December 2000	31 December 2002	2 years, 27 days
N. K. Jain	Madras	Karnataka	13 September 2000	20 October 2004	4 years, 38 days
C. K. Thakker	Himachal Pradesh	Bombay	5 May 2000	7 June 2004[‡]	4 years, 34 days
Arijit Pasayat	Kerala	Delhi	20 September 1999	18 October 2001[‡]	2 years, 29 days
K. G. Balakrishnan	Gujarat	Madras	16 July 1998	7 June 2000[‡]	1 year, 328 days
K. Sreedharan	Punjab and Haryana	Gujarat	30 July 1996	4 June 1998	1 year, 310 days
A. K. Mathur	Madhya Pradesh	Calcutta	3 February 1996	6 June 2004[‡]	8 years, 125 days
S. N. Phukan	Himachal Pradesh	Orissa	1 March 1995	27 January 1999[‡]	3 years, 333 days
M. Ramakrishna	Jammu & Kashmir	Gauhati	10 October 1994	12 April 1998	3 years, 185 days
G. T. Nanavati	Orissa	Karnataka	31 January 1994	4 March 1995[‡]	1 year, 33 days
Sujata Manohar	Bombay	Kerala	15 January 1994	7 November 1994[‡]	297 days
Anandamoy Bhattacharjee	Calcutta	Bombay	25 January 1993	1 April 1995	2 years, 67 days
M. K. Mukherjee	Allahabad	Bombay	12 November 1991	14 December 1993[‡]	2 years, 33 days
U. L. Bhat	Gauhati	Madhya Pradesh	20 August 1991	13 October 1995	4 years, 55 days
M. Jagannadha Rao	Kerala	Delhi	8 August 1991	20 March 1997[‡]	5 years, 225 days
G. C. Mittal	Delhi	Rajasthan	5 August 1991	3 March 1995	3 years, 211 days
K. C. Agarwal	Rajasthan	Calcutta	15 April 1990	15 January 1996	5 years, 276 days
G. G. Sohani	Madhya Pradesh	Patna	20 October 1989	17 December 1990	1 year, 59 days
Shushil Kumar Jha	Patna	Madhya Pradesh	19 October 1989	15 December 1993	4 years, 58 days
S. Mohan	Madras	Karnataka	19 October 1989	6 October 1991[‡]	1 year, 353 days
D. S. Tewatia	Punjab and Haryana	Calcutta	15 October 1987	2 May 1988[RES]	201 days
Chittatosh Mookerjee	Calcutta	Bombay	1 November 1986	1 January 1991	4 years, 62 days
J. S. Verma	Madhya Pradesh	Rajasthan	14 June 1986	22 May 1989[‡]	2 years, 343 days
Hridai Nath Seth	Allahabad	Punjab and Haryana	6 October 1985	14 October 1987	2 years, 9 days
Prem Chand Jain	Punjab and Haryana	Karnataka	1 August 1985	16 September 1989	4 years, 47 days
A. S. Anand	Jammu & Kashmir	Madras	11 May 1985	17 November 1991[‡]	6 years, 191 days
V. S. Malimath	Karnataka	Kerala	6 February 1984	11 June 1991	7 years, 126 days
D. Pathak	Gauhati	Orissa	18 April 1983	28 February 1986	2 years, 317 days
M. N. Chandurkar	Bombay	Madras	15 March 1983	13 March 1988	4 years, 365 days
P. S. Poti	Kerala	Gujarat	29 January 1981	1 February 1985	4 years, 4 days
S. S. Sandhawalia	Punjab and Haryana	Patna	17 July 1978	27 July 1987	9 years, 11 days
C. M. Lodha	Gauhati	Rajasthan	6 July 1978	9 July 1980	2 years, 4 days
Satish Chandra	Allahabad	Calcutta	22 March 1978	1 September 1986	8 years, 164 days
D. M. Chandrashekhar	Allahabad	Karnataka	10 May 1977	25 September 1982	5 years, 139 days
K. B. N. Singh	Patna	Madras	19 July 1976	24 January 1984	7 years, 190 days
P. Govindan Nair	Kerala	Madras	22 May 1973	28 May 1978	5 years, 7 days
R. L. Narasimham	Orissa	Patna	21 March 1956	2 August 1968	12 years, 135 days
Sarjoo Prasad	Gauhati	Rajasthan	10 February 1953	10 October 1961	8 years, 243 days
Kamalkanta Verma	Allahabad	Rajasthan	17 September 1946	24 January 1950	3 years, 130 days
Lawrence Hugh Jenkins	Bombay	Calcutta	20 April 1899	13 November 1915	16 years, 208 days
Louis Addin Kershaw	Allahabad	Bombay	6 April 1898	17 February 1899	318 days
William Comer Petheram	Allahabad	Calcutta	1 November 1884	November 1896
Richard Couch	Bombay	Calcutta	3 March 1866	5 April 1875[RES]	9 years, 34 days
Walter Morgan	Allahabad	Madras	13 June 1866	7 February 1879	12 years, 240 days

Name	Initially Chief Justice of (1st HC)	Transferred to (2nd HC)	Retired from (3rd HC)	Date of initial Appointment as Chief Justice	Date of Retirement from final High Court	Total tenure as CJ
M. S. Ramachandra Rao	Himachal Pradesh	Jharkhand	Tripura	30 May 2023	Incumbent	2 years, 295 days
Arup Kumar Goswami	Sikkim	Andhra Pradesh	Chhattisgarh	15 October 2019	10 March 2023	3 years, 147 days
T. B. Radhakrishnan	Chhattisgarh	Telangana	Calcutta	18 March 2017	28 April 2021	4 years, 42 days
D. H. Waghela	Karnataka	Orissa	Bombay	7 March 2013	10 August 2016	3 years, 157 days
Manjula Chellur	Kerala	Calcutta	Bombay	26 September 2012	4 December 2017	5 years, 70 days
Barin Ghosh	Jammu & Kashmir	Sikkim	Uttarakhand	3 January 2009	4 June 2014	5 years, 153 days
Rajeev Gupta	Kerala	Uttarakhand	Chhattisgarh	27 April 2005	9 October 2012	7 years, 166 days
B. K. Roy	Punjab and Haryana	Gauhati	Sikkim	14 October 2002	26 December 2006	4 years, 74 days
Vinod Kumar Gupta	Jharkhand	Himachal Pradesh	Uttarakhand	5 December 2000	9 September 2009	8 years, 279 days
Bhawani Singh	Jammu & Kashmir	Madhya Pradesh	Gujarat	16 June 1997	28 March 2006	8 years, 286 days
P. D. Desai	Himachal Pradesh	Calcutta	Bombay	23 December 1983	14 December 1992	8 years, 358 days

Name	Initially Chief Justice of (1st HC)	Transferred to (2nd HC)	Again transferred to (3rd HC)	Retired from (4th HC)	Date of initial Appointment as Chief Justice	Date of Retirement from final High Court	Total tenure as CJ
Mohammad Rafiq	Meghalaya	Orissa	Madhya Pradesh	Himachal Pradesh	13 November 2019	24 May 2022	2 years, 193 days

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