List of former chief justices of the high courts of India

This Article is a list of former chief justices of the All Indian High Courts.

Allahabad High Court

Allahabad High Court was established on 17 March 1866 under Indian High Courts Act 1861 and had total 50 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Arun Bhansali who is serving from 5 February 2024.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
Pre Independence
1	Walter Morgan	13 June 1866^[1]	21 November 1871	5 years, 162 days	Transferred to Madras as CJ
2	Robert Stuart	22 November 1871^[2]	1884
3	William Comer Petheram	1884	23 March 1886^[3]		Transferred to Calcutta as CJ
4	John Edge	27 May 1886^[4]	1898
5	Louis Addin Kershaw	1898	1898		Transferred to Bombay as CJ
6	Arthur Strachey	1898	1901
7	John Stanley	1901	1911
8	Henry George Richards	1911	1919
9	Edward Grimwood Mears	29 October 1919	15 March 1932	12 years, 139 days	Longest serving CJ of Allahabad
10	Shah Muhammad Sulaiman	16 March 1932	30 September 1937	5 years, 199 days	Elevated to Federal Court of India
11	John Gibb Thom	1 October 1937	1941
12	Iqbal Ahmad	1941	1946
13	Kamalkanta Verma	1946	1947		Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ
Post Independence
14	Bidhu Bhushan Malik	1947	1955
15	Orby Howell Mootham	January 1955	16 February 1961
16	Manulal Chunilal Desai	17 February 1961	24 February 1966	5 years, 39 days
17	Vashishtha Bhargava	25 February 1966	7 August 1966	164 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
18	Nasirullah Beg	24 September 1966	1967
19	Vidyadhar Govind Oak	4 June 1967	18 May 1971	3 years, 349 days
20	Shashi Kanta Verma	19 May 1971	5 November 1973	2 years, 171 days
21	Dhatri Saran Mathur	6 November 1973	13 November 1974	1 year, 8 days
22	Kunwar Bahadur Asthana	14 November 1974	9 May 1977	2 years, 177 days
23	D. M. Chandrashekhar	10 May 1977	21 March 1978	316 days	Transferred to Karnataka as CJ
24	Satish Chandra	1978	1983		Transferred to Calcutta as CJ
25	Mahesh Narain Shukla	29 November 1983	5 October 1985	1 year, 311 days
26	Hriday Nath Seth	1986	17 August 1986		Transferred to Punjab and Haryana as CJ
27	Kalmanje Jagannatha Shetty	1 October 1986	1 May 1987	213 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
28	Dwarka Nath Jha	1987	1987
29	Amitav Banerji	16 July 1987	6 November 1988	1 year, 114 days
30	Brahma Nath Katju	7 November 1988	22 May 1989	197 days
31	B. P. Jeevan Reddy	16 April 1990	6 October 1991	1 year, 174 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
32	Manoj Kumar Mukherjee	12 November 1991	8 January 1993	1 year, 58 days	Transferred to Bombay as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
33	Sarvinder Singh Sodhi	29 April 1994	9 April 1995	346 days
34	A. Lakshman Rao	10 April 1995	14 January 1996	280 days
35	Deba Priya Mohapatra	16 February 1996	8 December 1998	2 years, 296 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
36	N. K. Mitra	1999	2000
37	Shyamal Kumar Sen	18 July 2000	24 November 2002	2 years, 130 days
38	Tarun Chatterjee	31 January 2003	26 August 2004	1 year, 209 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
39	Ajoy Nath Ray	11 January 2005	26 January 2007	2 years, 16 days	Transferred to Sikkim as CJ
40	Hemant Laxman Gokhale	7 March 2007	8 March 2009	2 years, 2 days	Transferred to Madras as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
41	Chandramauli Kumar Prasad	20 March 2009	7 February 2010	325 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
42	Ferdino Rebello	26 June 2010	30 July 2011	1 year, 35 days
43	Syed Rafat Alam	5 August 2011	7 August 2012	1 year, 3 days
44	Shiva Kirti Singh	4 February 2013	18 September 2013	227 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
45	Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud	31 October 2013	12 May 2016	2 years, 195 days	Later served as 50th Chief Justice of India^[5]
46	Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale^[6]	30 July 2016	23 October 2018	2 years, 86 days
47	Govind Mathur	14 November 2018	13 April 2021	2 years, 151 days
48	Sanjay Yadav	13 June 2021	25 June 2021	13 days
49	Rajesh Bindal^[7]	11 October 2021	12 February 2023	1 year, 125 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India^[8]
50	Pritinker Diwaker^[9]	26 March 2023	21 November 2023	241 days

Andhra Pradesh High Court

Andhra Pradesh High Court was established on 1 January 2019 under Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 and had 3 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and current Chief Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur who is serving from 28 July 2023.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari^[10]	7 October 2019	5 January 2021	1 year, 91 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India^[11]
2	Arup Kumar Goswami	6 January 2021	11 October 2021	279 days	Transferred to Chhattisgarh as CJ
3	Prashant Kumar Mishra^[12]	13 October 2021	18 May 2023	1 year, 218 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India^[13]

Bombay High Court

Bombay High Court was established on 14 August 1862 under Indian High Courts Act 1861 and had 47 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Alok Aradhe who is serving from 21 January 2025.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
Pre Independence
1	Matthew Richard Sausse	14 August 1862^[14]	1866
2	Richard Couch	1866	1870		Transferred to Calcutta as CJ
3	Michael Roberts Westropp	1870	1882
4	Charles Sargent	1882	1895
5	Charles Frederick Farran	1895	9 September 1898
6	Louis Addin Kershaw	1898	1899
7	Lawrence Hugh Jenkins	1899	1908		Transferred to Calcutta as CJ
8	Basil Scott	1908	1919
9	Norman Cranstoun Macleod	1919	1926
10	Amberson Barrington Marten	1926	1930
11	John William Fisher Beaumont	1930	29 September 1943		Longest serving CJ of Bombay
12	Leonard Stone	30 September 1943	1948		During his tenure India got Independence
Post Independence
13	Mahommedali Currim Chagla	1948	26 October 1958
14	Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani	27 October 1958	1965
15	Yeshwant Shripad Tambe	5 February 1966	31 July 1966	177 days
16	Sohrab Peshotan Kotval	1 August 1966	27 September 1972	6 years, 58 days
17	K. Kalyandas Desai	28 September 1972	27 October 1972	30 days
18	Ramanlal Maneklal Kantawala	28 October 1972	5 October 1978	5 years, 343 days
19	B. N. Deshmukh	6 October 1978	19 November 1980	2 years, 45 days
20	Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande	12 January 1981	11 August 1982	1 year, 212 days
21	Dinshah Pirosha Madon	31 August 1982	14 March 1983	196 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
22	Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar	15 March 1983	2 April 1984	1 year, 19 days	Transferred to Madras as CJ
23	Konda Madhava Reddy	8 April 1984	21 October 1985	1 year, 197 days
24	Madhukar Hiralal Kania	23 June 1986	30 April 1987	312 days	Later served as 23rd Chief Justice of India
25	Chittatosh Mookerjee	2 November 1987	1 January 1991	3 years, 61 days
26	Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai	7 January 1991	14 December 1992	1 year, 343 days
27	Manoj Kumar Mukherjee	9 January 1993	14 December 1993	340 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
28	Sujata Manohar	15 January 1994	20 April 1994	96 days	First Female CJ of Bombay Transferred to Kerala as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
29	Anandamoy Bhattacharjee	21 April 1994	1 April 1995	346 days
30	Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah	2 August 1995	9 December 1998	3 years, 130 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
31	Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal	3 February 1999	28 January 2000	360 days	Later served as 36th Chief Justice of India
32	Bisheshwar Prasad Singh	31 March 2000	14 December 2001	1 year, 259 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
33	Chunilal Karsandas Thakker	31 December 2001	7 June 2004	2 years, 160 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
34	Dalveer Bhandari	25 July 2004	27 October 2005	1 year, 95 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India Later elected to International Court of Justice
35	Kshitij R. Vyas	25 February 2006	18 July 2006	144 days
36	Harjit Singh Bedi	3 October 2006	12 January 2007	102 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
37	Swatanter Kumar	31 March 2007	30 December 2009	2 years, 275 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
38	Anil Ramesh Dave	11 February 2010	29 April 2010	78 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
39	Mohit Shantilal Shah	26 June 2010	8 September 2015	5 years, 75 days
40	Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela	15 February 2016	10 August 2016	178 days
41	Manjula Chellur	22 August 2016	4 December 2017	1 year, 105 days
42	Naresh Harishchandra Patil	29 October 2018	6 April 2019	160 days
43	Pradeep Nandrajog	7 April 2019	23 February 2020	323 days
44	Bhushan Pradyumna Dharmadhikari	20 March 2020	27 April 2020	39 days
45	Dipankar Datta^[15]	28 April 2020	11 December 2022	2 years, 228 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India^[16]
46	Ramesh Deokinandan Dhanuka^[17]	28 May 2023	30 May 2023	3 days	Shortest serving CJ of Bombay
47	Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya	29 July 2023	20 January 2025	1 year, 176 days	Transferred to Delhi as CJ^[18]

Calcutta High Court

Calcutta High Court was established on 1 July 1862 under Indian High Courts Act 1861 and had 42 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Tirunelveli Subbiah Sivagnanam who is serving from 11 May 2023.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
Pre Independence
1	Barnes Peacock	1 July 1862	1870
2	Richard Couch	1870	2 March 1875^[19]
3	Richard Garth	1875	26 February 1886^[20]
4	William Comer Petheram	24 March 1886^[21]	November 1896
5	Francis William Maclean	1886	1909
6	Lawrence Hugh Jenkins	1909	13 November 1915^[22]
7	Lancelot Sanderson	1915	1926
8	George Claus Rankin	1926	1934
9	Harold Derbyshire	1934	1946
10	Arthur Trevor Harries	1946	1952		During his tenure India got Independence
Post Independence
11	Phani Bhusan Chakravartti	1952	1958
12	Kulada Charan Das Gupta	October 1958	23 August 1959		Elevated to Supreme Court of India
13	Surajit Chandra Lahiri	24 August 1959	7 June 1961	1 year, 288 days
14	Himansu Kumar Bose	1961	1966
15	Deep Narayan Sinha	1966	1970
16	Prasanta Bihari Mukharji	1970	1972
17	Sankar Prasad Mitra	1972	1979		Longest serving CJ of Calcutta
18	Amarendra Nath Sen	26 December 1979	27 January 1981	1 year, 33 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
19	Sambhu Chandra Ghose	1981	1983
20	Samarendra Chandra Deb	January 1983	February 1983
21	Satish Chandra	1983	1986
22	Anil Kumar Sen	September 1986	October 1986
23	Chittatosh Mookerjee	1 November 1986	1 November 1987	1 year, 1 day	Transferred to Bombay as CJ
24	Debi Singh Tewatia	2 November 1987	2 May 1988	183 days
25	Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai	14 November 1988	6 January 1991	2 years, 54 days	Transferred to Bombay as CJ
26	Nagendra Prasad Singh	4 February 1992	14 June 1992	132 days
27	Anandamoy Bhattacharjee	25 January 1993	20 April 1994	1 year, 86 days	Transferred to Bombay as CJ
28	Krishna Chandra Agarwal	21 April 1994	15 January 1996	1 year, 270 days
29	Vishweshwar Nath Khare	2 February 1996	20 March 1997	1 year, 47 days	Later served as 33rd Chief Justice of India
30	Prabha Shankar Mishra	28 October 1997	6 August 1998	283 days
31	Ashok Kumar Mathur	22 December 1999	6 June 2004	4 years, 168 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
32	Vikas Sridhar Sirpurkar	20 March 2005	11 January 2007	1 year, 298 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
33	Surinder Singh Nijjar	8 March 2007	16 November 2009	2 years, 254 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
34	Mohit Shantilal Shah	24 December 2009	25 June 2010	184 days	Transferred to Bombay as CJ
35	Jai Narayan Patel	26 June 2010	4 October 2012	2 years, 101 days
36	Arun Kumar Mishra	14 December 2012	6 July 2014	1 year, 205 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
37	Manjula Chellur	6 August 2014	21 August 2016	2 years, 16 days	First Female CJ of Calcutta Transferred to Bombay as CJ
38	Girish Chandra Gupta	21 September 2016	30 November 2016	71 days
39	Jyotirmay Bhattacharya	1 May 2018	24 September 2018	147 days
40	Debasish Kar Gupta	30 October 2018	31 December 2018	63 days
41	Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan	4 April 2019	28 April 2021	2 years, 25 days
42	Prakash Shrivastava	11 October 2021	30 March 2023	1 year, 171 days

Chhattisgarh High Court

Chhattisgarh High Court was established on 1 November 2000 under Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 and had 14 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha who is serving from 29 March 2023.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	Wungazan Awungshi Shishak	5 December 2000	15 January 2002	1 year, 42 days	Transferred to Himachal Pradesh as CJ
2	K.H.N. 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	Transferred to Madhya Pradesh as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
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 as CJ Later served as 42nd Chief Justice of India
7	Rajeev Gupta	2 February 2008	9 October 2012	4 years, 251 days
8	Yatindra Singh	22 October 2012	8 October 2014	1 year, 352 days
9	Navin Sinha	9 April 2015	11 May 2016	1 year, 33 days	Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
10	Deepak Gupta	16 May 2016	16 February 2017	277 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
11	Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan	18 March 2017	6 July 2018	1 year, 111 days	Transferred to Telangana as CJ Later Transferred to Calcutta as CJ
12	Ajay Kumar Tripathi	7 July 2018	26 March 2019	263 days
13	Parappillil Ramakrishnan Nair Ramachandra Menon	6 May 2019	31 May 2021	2 years, 26 days
14	Arup Kumar Goswami	12 October 2021	10 March 2023	1 year, 150 days

Delhi High Court

Delhi High Court was established on 31 October 1966 under Delhi High Court Act,1966 and had 32 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya who is serving from 21 January 2025.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	Kowdoor Sadananda Hegde	31 October 1966	16 July 1967	259 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
2	Inder Dev Dua	14 November 1967	1 August 1969	1 year, 261 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
3	Hans Raj Khanna	2 August 1969	22 September 1970	1 year, 52 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
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	27 March 1980	1 year, 164 days
8	Prakash Narain	8 January 1981	5 August 1985	4 years, 210 days
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	16 August 1987	362 days
12	Yogeshwar Dayal	21 August 1987	18 March 1988	211 days	Transferred to Undivided Andhra Pradesh as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
13	Rabindranth Pyne	20 May 1987	8 October 1990	3 years, 142 days
14	Milap Chand Jain	28 November 1990	21 July 1991	236 days
15	Gokal Chand Mittal	5 August 1991	11 April 1994	2 years, 250 days	Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ
16	Mamidanna Jagannadha Rao	12 April 1994	20 March 1997	2 years, 343 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
17	Mahinder Narain	21 March 1997	7 February 1999	1 year, 324 days
18	Sam Nariman Variava	25 May 1999	14 March 2000	295 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
19	Arijit Pasayat	10 May 2000	18 October 2001	1 year, 162 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
20	Satyabrata Sinha	26 November 2001	30 September 2002	309 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
21	Babulal Chandulal Patel	5 March 2003	7 August 2005	2 years, 156 days
22	Markandey Katju	12 October 2005	9 April 2006	180 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
23	Mukundakam Sharma	4 December 2006	8 April 2008	1 year, 127 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
24	Ajit Prakash Shah	11 May 2008	12 February 2010	1 year, 278 days
25	Dipak Misra	24 May 2010	9 October 2011	1 year, 139 days	Later served as 45th Chief Justice of India
26	Darmar Murugesan	26 September 2012	10 June 2013	258 days
27	Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana	2 September 2013	16 February 2014	168 days	Later served as 48th Chief Justice of India
28	Gorla Rohini	21 April 2014	13 April 2017	2 years, 358 days	First Female CJ of Delhi
29	Rajendra Menon	9 August 2018	6 June 2019	302 days
30	Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel	7 June 2019	12 March 2022	2 years, 279 days
31	Satish Chandra Sharma^[23]	28 June 2022	8 November 2023	1 year, 134 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India^[24]
32	Manmohan^[25]	29 September 2024	4 December 2024	67 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India^[26]

Gauhati High Court

Gauhati High Court was established on 1 March 1948 under Government of India Act 1935 and had 41 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Vijay Bishnoi who is serving from 5 February 2024.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	Ronald Francis Lodge	5 April 1948	7 April 1949	1 year, 3 days
2	Thakurdas Vasanmal Thadani	8 April 1949	21 November 1952	3 years, 228 days
3	Sarjoo Prasad	10 February 1953	20 February 1959	6 years, 11 days	Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ
4	Chandreswar Prasad Sinha	21 February 1959	2 January 1961	1 year, 317 days
5	Holiram Deka	3 January 1961	29 June 1961	178 days
6	Gopalji Mehrotra	30 June 1961	6 February 1967	5 years, 222 days
7	C. S. Row Nayudu	7 February 1967	7 March 1968	1 year, 30 days
8	S. K. Dutta	8 March 1968	30 January 1970	1 year, 329 days
9	Parbati Kumar Goswami	31 January 1970	9 October 1973	3 years, 252 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
10	M. C. Pathak	January 1974	30 June 1977
11	M. S. Swami	1 October 1977	5 July 1978	278 days
12	Chand Mal Lodha	6 July 1978	10 March 1979	248 days	Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ
13	Baharul Islam	7 July 1979	1 March 1980	239 days	Later elevated to Supreme Court of India on 4 December 1980 nearly 10 months after retirement
14	Dambarudhar Pathak	18 April 1983	8 August 1983	113 days	Served as Acting Chief Justice for more than 3 years from 2 March 1980 to 17 April 1983 before being elevated as Chief Justice Transferred to Odisha as CJ
15	T. S. Misra	12 August 1983	14 November 1984	1 year, 95 days
16	P. C. Reddy	30 September 1985	2 November 1986	1 year, 34 days
17	K. M. Lahiri	3 November 1986	19 December 1986	47 days
18	K. N. Saika	13 June 1987	1 March 1988	263 days	Later elevated to Supreme Court of India on 14 December 1988 nearly 10 months after retirement
19	Guman Mal Lodha	2 March 1988	15 March 1988	14 days
20	A. S. Raghuvir	6 May 1988	21 March 1991	2 years, 320 days
21	Ullal Lakshminarayana Bhat	20 August 1991	15 December 1993	2 years, 118 days	Transferred to Madhya Pradesh as CJ
22	R. K. Manisana Singh	27 January 1994	1 February 1994	6 days
23	Viney Krishna Khanna	24 April 1994	14 February 1997	2 years, 297 days
24	M. Ramakrishna	18 June 1997	12 April 1998	299 days
25	Brijesh Kumar	12 February 1999	18 October 2000	1 year, 250 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
26	N. C. Jain	19 October 2000	5 April 2001	169 days
27	Ravinder Singh Mongia	21 September 2001	9 June 2002	262 days
28	P. P. Naolekar	10 June 2002	28 July 2004	2 years, 49 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
29	Binod Kumar Roy	21 May 2005	29 September 2005	132 days	Transferred to Sikkim as CJ
30	B. Sudarshan Reddy	5 December 2005	11 January 2007	1 year, 38 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
31	Jasti Chelameswar	3 May 2007	16 March 2010	2 years, 318 days	Transferred to Kerala as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
32	Ramesh Surajmal Garg	17 April 2010	18 June 2010	63 days
33	Madan Lokur	24 June 2010	14 November 2011	1 year, 145 days	Transferred to Undivded Andhra Pradesh as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
34	Adarsh Kumar Goel	20 December 2011	10 October 2013	1 year, 295 days	Transferred to Odisha as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
35	Abhay Manohar Sapre	19 October 2013	12 August 2014	298 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
36	Ajit Singh	5 March 2016	5 September 2018	2 years, 185 days
37	Ajjikuttira Somaiah Bopanna	29 October 2018	23 May 2019	207 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
38	Ajai Lamba	7 October 2019	20 September 2020	350 days
39	Sudhanshu Dhulia^[27]	10 January 2021	8 May 2022	1 year, 119 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India^[28]
40	Rashmin Manharbhai Chhaya	23 June 2022	11 January 2023	203 days
41	Sandeep Mehta^[29]	15 February 2023	8 November 2023	267 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India

Gujarat High Court

Gujarat High Court was established on 1 May 1960 under Bombay Reorganisation Act,1960 and had 27 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal who is serving from 29 July 2023.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	Sunderlal Trikamlal Desai	1 May 1960	25 January 1961	270 days
2	Kantilal Thakoredas Desai	26 January 1961	22 May 1963	2 years, 117 days
3	Jaishanker Manilal Shelat	31 May 1963	24 February 1966	2 years, 270 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
4	Nomanbhai Mahmedbhai Miabhoy	21 April 1966	5 September 1967	1 year, 138 days
5	Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati	16 September 1967	17 July 1973	5 years, 305 days	Later served as 17th Chief Justice of India
6	Bipinchandra Jivanlal Diwan	18 July 1973	30 June 1976	2 years, 349 days	Transferred to Undivded Andhra Pradesh as CJ Later again transferred to Gujarat
7	Seshareddi Obul Reddy	7 July 1976	18 August 1977	1 year, 43 days	Transferred to Undivded Andhra Pradesh as CJ
(6)	Bipinchandra Jivanlal Diwan	28 August 1977	19 August 1981	3 years, 357 days	Retransferred to Gujarat High Court as Chief Justice with effect from 28 August 1977.
8	Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar	20 August 1981	14 March 1983	1 year, 207 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
9	Padmanabham Subramanian Poti	28 September 1983	1 February 1985	1 year, 127 days
10	Puliyangudi Ramaiyapillai Gokulakrishnan	21 March 1985	12 August 1990	5 years, 145 days
11	Ganendra Narayan Ray	2 December 1990	6 November 1991	340 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
12	Sundaram Nainar Sundaram	15 June 1992	13 December 1993	1 year, 182 days
13	Bhupinder Nath Kirpal	14 December 1993	10 September 1995	1 year, 271 days	Later served as 31st Chief Justice of India
14	Gurudas Datta Kamat	2 July 1996	4 January 1997	187 days
15	Kumaran Sreedharan	20 October 1997	3 June 1998	227 days
16	Konakuppakattil Gopinathan Balakrishnan	16 July 1998	8 September 1999	1 year, 55 days	Transferred to Madras as CJ Later served as 37th Chief Justice of India
17	D. M. Dharmadhikari	25 January 2000	4 March 2002	2 years, 39 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
18	Daya Saran Sinha	17 March 2002	18 March 2003	1 year, 2 days
19	Bhawani Singh	25 August 2003	28 March 2006	2 years, 216 days
20	Y. R. Meena	3 February 2007	30 June 2008	1 year, 149 days
21	K S Panicker Radhakrishnan	4 September 2008	16 November 2009	1 year, 74 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
22	S J Mukhopadhaya	9 December 2009	12 September 2011	1 year, 278 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
23	Bhaskar Bhattacharya	21 July 2012	28 September 2014	2 years, 70 days
24	R. Subhash Reddy	13 February 2016	1 November 2018	2 years, 262 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
25	Vikram Nath	10 September 2019	30 August 2021	1 year, 355 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
26	Aravind Kumar	13 October 2021	12 February 2023	1 year, 123 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
27	Sonia Giridhar Gokani	16 February 2023	25 February 2023	10 days	First Female CJ of Gujarat

Himachal Pradesh High Court

Himachal Pradesh High Court was established on 25 January 1971 under State of Himachal Pradesh Act, 1970 and had 29 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia who is serving from 29 December 2024.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	Mirza Hameedullah Beg	25 January 1971	9 December 1971	319 days	Later served as 15th Chief Justice of India
2	Raghunandan Swarup Pathak	18 March 1972	19 February 1978	5 years, 339 days	Later served as 18th Chief Justice of India Then later elected to International Court of Justice
3	Tryambkalal Umedchand Mehta	25 July 1978	11 December 1979	1 year, 140 days
4	Vyas Dev Misra	12 December 1979	30 September 1983	3 years, 293 days
5	Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai	23 December 1983	13 November 1988	4 years, 327 days	Transferred to Calcutta as CJ Later transferred to Bombay as CJ
6	Narendra Mohan Kasliwal	29 March 1989	5 October 1989	191 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
7	Perumbulavil Chakkala Valappil Balakrishna Menon	6 November 1989	14 January 1991	1 year, 70 days
8	Leila Seth	5 August 1991	19 October 1992	1 year, 76 days	First Female CJ of Himachal Pradesh
9	Shashi Kant Seth	22 June 1993	27 August 1993	67 days
10	Viswanathan Ratnam	29 January 1994	31 July 1994	184 days
11	Gulab Chand Gupta	17 September 1994	28 February 1995	165 days
12	Sailendu Nath Phukan	1 March 1995	1 August 1996	1 year, 154 days	Transferred to Odisha as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
13	Madhavachari Srinivasan	12 August 1996	24 September 1997	1 year, 44 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
14	Makani Narayana Rao	6 November 1997	21 April 1998	167 days
15	Doraiswamy Raju	1 July 1998	27 January 2000	1 year, 211 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
16	Chunilal Karsandas Thakker	5 May 2000	30 December 2001	1 year, 240 days	Transferred to Bombay as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
17	Wungazan Awungshi Shishak	24 January 2002	31 December 2002	342 days
18	Vinod Kumar Gupta	8 March 2003	1 February 2008	4 years, 331 days	Transferred to Uttarakhand as CJ
19	Jagadish Bhalla	2 February 2008	9 August 2009	1 year, 189 days	Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ
20	Kurian Joseph	8 February 2010	6 March 2013	3 years, 27 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
21	Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar	4 April 2013	23 November 2013	234 days	Transferred to Madhya Pradesh as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
22	Mansoor Ahmad Mir	18 June 2014	24 April 2017	2 years, 311 days
23	Surya Kant^[30]	5 October 2018	23 May 2019	231 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
24	V. Ramasubramanian	22 June 2019	22 September 2019	93 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
25	Lingappa Narayana Swamy	6 October 2019	29 June 2021	1 year, 267 days
26	Mohammad Rafiq	14 October 2021	20 May 2022	130 days
27	Amjad Ahtesham Sayed	23 June 2022	20 January 2023	212 days
28	Mamidanna Satyratna Ramachandra Rao	30 May 2023	24 September 2024	1 year, 118 days	Transferred to Jharkhand as CJ
29	Rajiv Shakdher	25 September 2024	18 October 2024	24 days

Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court

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 had 37 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Arun Palli who is serving from 16 April 2025.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
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
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
5	Ganga Nath	24 June 1942	23 October 1945	3 years, 122 days
6	S.K. Ghose	29 March 1946	29 March 1948	2 years, 1 day	During his tenure India got Independence
Post Independence
7	Janki Nath Wazir	30 March 1948	2 December 1967	19 years, 248 days	Longest serving CJ of Jammu - Kashmir
8	Syed Murtaza Fazl Ali	3 December 1967	1 April 1975	7 years, 120 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
9	Raja Jaswant Singh	2 April 1975	22 January 1976	296 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
10	M.R.A. 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	7 March 1983	23 August 1983	170 days
13	Vazhakkul Angarayil Khalid	24 August 1983	24 June 1984	306 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
14	Adarsh Sein Anand	11 May 1985	23 October 1989	4 years, 166 days	Transferred to Madras as CJ Later served as 29th Chief Justice of India
15	S.S. Kang	24 October 1989	14 May 1993	3 years, 203 days
16	S.C. Mathur	10 October 1993	17 March 1994	159 days
17	Saiyed Sagir Ahmed	18 March 1994	22 September 1994	189 days	Transferred to Undivded Andhra Pradesh as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
18	M. Ramakrishna	10 October 1994	15 June 1997	2 years, 249 days	Transferred to Gauhati as CJ
19	Bhawani Singh	16 June 1997	20 February 2000	2 years, 250 days	Transferred to Madhya Pradesh as CJ Later transferred to Gujarat as CJ
20	B.P. Saraf	21 February 2000	22 August 2001	1 year, 183 days
21	H. K. Sema	12 September 2001	4 March 2002	174 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
22	Babulal Chandulal Patel	15 May 2002	4 March 2003	294 days	Transferred to Delhi as CJ
23	Sachchidanand Jha	4 February 2004	11 October 2005	1 year, 250 days	Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ
24	Bashir Ahmed Khan	25 January 2007	31 March 2007	66 days
25	K S Panicker Radhakrishnan	7 January 2008	28 August 2008	235 days	Transferred to Gujarat as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
26	Manmohan Sarin	4 September 2008	19 October 2008	46 days
27	Barin Ghosh	3 January 2009	12 April 2010	1 year, 100 days	Transferred to Sikkim as CJ Later transferred to Uttarakhand as CJ
28	Aftab Hussain Saikia	13 April 2010	6 April 2011	359 days
29	Fakir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla	7 April 2011	1 April 2012	361 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
30	Mahesh Mittal Kumar	9 June 2012	4 January 2015	2 years, 210 days
31	N. Paul Vasanthakumar	2 February 2015	14 March 2017	2 years, 41 days
32	Badar Durrez Ahmed	1 April 2017	15 March 2018	349 days
33	Gita Mittal	11 August 2018	8 December 2020	2 years, 120 days	First Female of CJ of Jammu - Kashmir
34	Pankaj Mithal	4 January 2021	11 October 2022	1 year, 281 days	Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
35	Ali Mohammad Magrey	13 October 2022	7 December 2022	56 days
36	Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh	15 February 2023	17 July 2024	1 year, 154 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
37	Tashi Rabstan	27 September 2024	9 April 2025	195 days

Jharkhand High Court

Jharkhand High Court was established on 15 November 2000 under Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 and had 15 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Mamidanna Satyaratna Ramachandra Rao who is serving from 25 September 2024.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	Vinod Kumar Gupta	5 December 2000	4 March 2003	2 years, 90 days	Transferred to Himachal Pradesh as CJ Later transferred to Uttarakhand as CJ
2	Perubhemba Krishna Ayer Balasubramanyan	10 March 2003	26 August 2004	1 year, 170 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
3	Altamas Kabir	1 March 2005	8 September 2005	192 days	Later served as 39th Chief Justice of India
4	Nelavoy Dhinakar	4 December 2005	9 June 2006	188 days
5	M. 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	First Female CJ of Jharkhand Elevated to Supreme Court of India
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	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
10	Virender Singh	1 November 2014	6 October 2016	1 year, 341 days
11	Pradip Kumar Mohanty	24 March 2017	9 June 2017	78 days
12	Aniruddha Bose	11 August 2018	23 May 2019	286 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
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
15	Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi	5 July 2024	19 July 2024	15 days

Karnataka High Court

Karnataka High Court was established in 1884 under Mysore High Court Act, 1884 and had 33 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Nilay Vipinchandra Anjaria who is serving from 25 February 2024.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	R. Venkataramaiah	1 November 1956	16 July 1957	258 days
2	S. R. Das Gupta	25 July 1957	13 August 1961	4 years, 20 days
3	Nittoor Srinivasa Rau	29 March 1962	7 August 1963	1 year, 132 days
4	A. R. Somanath Iyer	23 November 1969	29 December 1969	37 days
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
8	D. M. Chandrashekar	22 March 1978	25 September 1982	4 years, 188 days
9	K. Bhimaiah	28 October 1982	10 April 1983	165 days
10	V. S. Malimath	6 February 1984	24 October 1985	1 year, 261 days	Transferred to Kerala as CJ
11	Prem Chand Jain	28 August 1986	16 September 1989	3 years, 20 days
12	Shanmughasundaram Mohan	26 October 1989	7 October 1991	1 year, 347 days	Transferred to Madras as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
13	Sam Piroj Bharucha	1 November 1991	30 June 1992	243 days	Later served as 30th Chief Justice of India
14	S. B. Majumdar	2 July 1993	13 September 1994	1 year, 74 days
15	Girish Thakorlal Nanavati	28 September 1994	4 March 1995	158 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
16	M. L. Pendse	28 July 1995	25 March 1996	242 days
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 of India
19	Y. Bhaskar Rao	9 March 1999	26 June 2000	1 year, 110 days
20	P. Venkatarama Reddi	21 October 2000	16 August 2001	300 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
21	Nagendra Kumar Jain	31 August 2001	20 October 2004	3 years, 51 days
22	Navudip Kumar Sodhi	19 November 2004	29 November 2005	1 year, 11 days
23	Cyriac Joseph	7 January 2006	6 July 2008	2 years, 182 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
24	Paul Daniel Dinakaran Premkumar	8 August 2008	7 August 2010	2 years, 0 days	Transferred to Sikkim as CJ
25	Jagdish Singh Khehar	8 August 2010	12 September 2011	1 year, 36 days	Later served as 44th Chief Justice of India
26	Vikramajit Sen	24 December 2011	24 December 2012	1 year, 1 day	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
27	Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela	7 March 2013	1 June 2015	2 years, 87 days
28	Subhro Kamal Mukherjee	23 February 2016	9 October 2017	1 year, 229 days
29	Dinesh Maheshwari	12 February 2018	17 January 2019	340 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
30	Abhay Shreeniwas Oka	10 May 2019	30 August 2021	2 years, 113 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
31	Ritu Raj Awasthi	11 October 2021	2 July 2022	265 days
32	Prasanna Bhalachandra Varale	15 October 2022	24 January 2024	1 year, 102 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
33	Pratinidhi Srinivasacharya Dinesh Kumar	3 February 2024	24 February 2024	22 days

Kerala High Court

Kerala High Court was established on 1 November 1956 under States Reorganisation Act, 1956 and had 38 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Nitin Madhukar Jamdar who is serving from 26 September 2024.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	K. T. Koshi	1 November 1956
2	K. Sankaran		29 March 1960
3	Mohammed Ahmed Ansari^[31]	30 March 1960	26 November 1961	1 year, 242 days
4	M. S. Menon		12 June 1969
5	P. T. Raman Nair
6	T. C. Raghavan
7	Padmanbhapillay Govindan Nair		2 January 1977		Transferred to Madras as CJ
8	V. P. Gopalan Nambiyar
9	Vettath Balakrishna Eradi	19 January 1980	30 January 1981	1 year, 12 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
10	Padmanabhan Subramanian Poti	June 1983	27 September 1983		Transferred to Gujarat as CJ
11	K. Bhaskaran	1983	1985		Transferred to Undivded Andhra Pradesh as CJ
12	V. S. Malimath	25 October 1985	11 June 1991	5 years, 230 days
13	M. Jagannadha Rao	8 August 1991	11 April 1994	2 years, 247 days	Transferred to Delhi as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
14	Sujata V. Manohar	21 April 1994	7 November 1994	201 days	First Female CJ of Kerala Elevated to Supreme Court of India
15	M. M. Pareed Pillay	3 January 1995	17 September 1995	258 days
16	U. P. Singh	13 July 1996	19 December 1997	1 year, 160 days
17	Om Prakash Verma	20 December 1997	19 March 1999	1 year, 90 days
18	Arijit Pasayat	20 September 1999	9 May 2000	233 days	Transferred to Delhi as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
19	Arvind Vinayakarao Savant	30 May 2000	17 September 2000	111 days
20	K.K. Usha	2000	3 July 2001
21	B. N. Srikrishna	6 September 2001	2 October 2002	1 year, 27 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
22	Jawahar Lal Gupta	1 November 2002	21 January 2004	1 year, 82 days
23	Navudip Kumar Sodhi	5 April 2004	18 November 2004	228 days	Transferred to Karnataka as CJ
24	B. Subhashan Reddy	21 November 2004	2 March 2005	102 days
25	Rajeev Gupta	27 April 2005	13 January 2006	262 days	Transferred to Uttarakhand as CJ Later transferred to Chhattisgarh as CJ
26	Vinod Kumar Bali	22 January 2006	24 January 2007	1 year, 3 days
27	Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu	18 May 2007	16 December 2008	262 days	Later served as 42nd Chief Justice of India
28	S. R. Bannurmath	March 2009	22 January 2010
29	Jasti Chelameswar	17 March 2010	9 October 2011	1 year, 207 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
30	Manjula Chellur	26 September 2012	1 August 2014	1 year, 310 days	Transferred to Calcutta as CJ
31	Ashok Bhushan	26 March 2015	12 May 2016	1 year, 48 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
32	Mohan Shantanagoudar	22 September 2016	16 February 2017	148 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
33	Navniti Prasad Singh	20 March 2017	6 November 2017	232 days
34	Antony Dominic	6 February 2018	30 May 2018	114 days
35	Hrishikesh Roy	8 August 2018	21 September 2019	1 year, 45 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
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	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
38	Ashish Jitendra Desai	22 July 2023	5 July 2024	350 days

Madhya Pradesh High Court

Madhya Pradesh High Court was established on 2 January 1936 under Government of India Act 1935 and had 27 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Suresh Kumar Kait who is serving from 25 September 2024.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	Mohammad Hidayatullah	1 November 1956	30 November 1958	2 years, 30 days	Later served as 11th Chief Justice of India
2	Ganesh Prasad Dutt	13 December 1958	12 September 1959	274 days
3	Purushottam Vinayak Dixit	22 September 1959	18 March 1969	9 years, 178 days
4	Bishambhar Dayal	19 March 1969	13 September 1972	3 years, 179 days
5	Prabhakar Keshava Tare	14 September 1972	10 October 1975	3 years, 27 days
6	Shivdayal Shrivastava	11 October 1975	27 February 1978	2 years, 140 days
7	Ananda Prakash Sen	28 February 1978	16 July 1978	139 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
8	Guru Prasanna Singh	27 July 1978	3 January 1984	5 years, 161 days
9	Goverdhan Lal Oza	1 December 1984	28 October 1985	332 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
10	Jagdish Sharan Verma	14 June 1986	31 August 1986	79 days	Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ Later served as 27th Chief Justice of India
11	Narayan Dutt Ojha	8 January 1987	17 January 1988	1 year, 10 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
12	Gangadhar Ganesh Sohani	20 October 1989	23 October 1989	4 days	Transferred to Patna as CJ
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
15	Ashok Kumar Mathur	3 February 1996	21 December 1999	3 years, 322 days	Transferred to Calcutta as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
16	Bhawani Singh	24 February 2000	24 August 2003	3 years, 182 days	Transferred to Gujarat as CJ
17	Kumar Rajarathnam	6 September 2003	12 March 2004	189 days
18	Raju Varadarajulu Raveendran	8 July 2004	8 September 2005	1 year, 63 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
19	Ananga Kumar Patnaik	2 October 2005	16 November 2009	4 years, 46 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
20	Syed Rafat Alam	20 December 2009	4 August 2011	1 year, 228 days	Transferred to Allahabad as CJ
21	Sharad Arvind Bobde	16 October 2012	11 April 2013	178 days	Later served as 47th Chief Justice of India
22	Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar	24 November 2013	12 May 2016	2 years, 171 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
23	Hemant Gupta	18 March 2017	1 November 2018	1 year, 229 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
24	Sanjay Kumar Seth	14 November 2018	9 June 2019	208 days
25	Ajay Kumar Mittal	3 November 2019	29 September 2020	332 days
26	Mohammad Rafiq	3 January 2021	13 October 2021	284 days	Transferred to Himachal Pradesh as CJ
27	Ravi Malimath	14 October 2021	24 May 2024	2 years, 224 days

Madras High Court

Madras High Court was established on 15 August 1862 under Indian High Courts Act 1861 and had 44 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Kalpathi Rajendran Shriram who is serving from 27 September 2024.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
Pre Independence
1	Colley Harman Scotland	15 August 1862	November 1871
2	Walter Morgan	November 1871^[32]	January 1879
3	Charles Arthur Turner	January 1879	1885
4	Arthur John Hammond Collins	1885	1899
5	Charles Arnold White	1899	1914
6	John Edward Power Wallis	1914	1921
7	Walter George Salis Schwabe	1921	1924
8	Murray Coutts-Trotter	3 June 1924	1929
9	Horace Owen Compton Beasley	1929	1937
10	Alfred Henry Lionel Leach	1937	1947
11	Fredrick William Gentle	12 July 1947^[33]	19 April 1948	283 days
Post Independence
12	Pakala Venkata Rajamannar	20 April 1948	9 May 1961	13 years, 20 days
13	Subramanya Ramachandra Iyer	16 September 1961	1 November 1964	3 years, 47 days
14	Palagani Chandra Reddy	15 February 1965	30 June 1966	1 year, 136 days
15	Madavayya Anantanarayanan	1 July 1966	30 April 1969	2 years, 304 days
16	Kuppuswami Naidu Veeraswami	1 May 1969	11 March 1976	6 years, 316 days
17	Palapatti Sadaya Goundar Kailasam	8 April 1976	2 January 1977	270 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
18	Padmanbhapillay Govindan Nair	3 January 1977	28 May 1978	1 year, 146 days
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	1 year, 246 days
21	Krishna Ballabh Narayan Singh	12 March 1982	24 January 1984	1 year, 319 days
22	Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar	2 April 1984	13 March 1988	3 years, 347 days
23	Shanmughasundaram Mohan	19 October 1989	24 October 1989	6 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
24	Adarsh Sein Anand	1 November 1989	17 November 1991	2 years, 17 days	Later served as 29th Chief Justice of India
25	Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar	15 June 1992	14 November 1992	153 days	First Female of CJ of Madras
26	Kudarikoti Annadanayya Swamy	1 July 1993	19 March 1997	3 years, 262 days
27	Manmohan Singh Liberhan	1 July 1997	27 December 1998	1 year, 180 days	Transferred to Undivded Andhra Pradesh as CJ
28	Ashok Chhotelal Agarwal	24 May 1999	26 August 1999	95 days
29	Konakuppakattil Gopinathan Balakrishnan	9 September 1999	5 June 2000	271 days	Later served as 37th Chief Justice of India
30	Nagendra Kumar Jain	13 September 2000	30 August 2001	352 days	Transferred to Karnataka as CJ
31	B. Subhashan Reddy	12 September 2001	20 November 2004	3 years, 70 days	Transferred to Kerala as CJ
32	Markandey Katju	28 November 2004	10 October 2005	317 days	Transferred to Delhi as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
33	Ajit Prakash Shah	12 November 2005	9 May 2008	2 years, 180 days	Transferred to Delhi as CJ
34	Asok Kumar Ganguly	19 May 2008	15 December 2008	211 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
35	Hemant Laxman Gokhale	9 March 2009	28 April 2010	1 year, 51 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
36	M. Y. Eqbal	11 June 2010	21 December 2012	2 years, 194 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
37	Rajesh Kumar Agrawal	24 October 2013	16 February 2014	116 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
38	Sanjay Kishan Kaul	26 July 2014	16 February 2017	2 years, 206 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
39	Indira Banerjee	5 April 2017	6 August 2018	1 year, 124 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
40	Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani	12 August 2018	6 September 2019	1 year, 26 days
41	Amreshwar Pratap Sahi	11 November 2019	31 December 2020	1 year, 51 days
42	Sanjib Banerjee	4 January 2021	16 November 2021	317 days	Transferred to Meghalaya as CJ
43	Munishwar Nath Bhandari	14 February 2022	12 September 2022	211 days
44	Sanjay Vijaykumar Gangapurwala	28 May 2023	23 May 2024	362 days

Manipur High Court

Manipur High Court was established on 25 March 2013 under North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2012 and had 7 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Deivasigamani Krishnakumar who is serving from 22 November 2024.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	Abhay Manohar Sapre	23 March 2013	18 October 2013	231 days	Transferred to Gauhati as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
2	Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra	10 July 2014	9 June 2016	1 year, 336 days
3	Rakesh Ranjan Prasad	22 September 2016	30 June 2017	282 days
4	Abhilasha Kumari	9 February 2018	23 February 2018	15 days	First Female CJ of Manipur
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	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
7	Siddharth Mridul	20 October 2023	21 November 2024	1 year, 33 days

Meghalaya High Court

Meghalaya High Court was established on 23 March 2013 under North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2012 and had 12 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Indra Prasanna Mukerji who is serving from 3 October 2024.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	T. Meena Kumari	23 March 2013	3 August 2013	134 days	Also first female CJ of Meghalaya
2	Prafulla Chandra Pant	20 September 2013	12 August 2014	327 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
3	Uma Nath Singh	19 March 2015	14 January 2016	302 days
4	Dinesh Maheshwari	24 February 2016	11 February 2018	1 year, 356 days	Transferred to Karnataka as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
5	Tarun Agarwala	12 February 2018	2 March 2018	19 days
6	Mohammad Yaqoob Mir	21 May 2018	27 May 2019	1 year, 7 days
7	Ajay Kumar Mittal	28 February 2019	31 October 2019	246 days	Transferred to Madhya Pradesh as CJ
8	Mohammad Rafiq	13 November 2019	26 April 2020	166 days	Transferred to Orissa as CJ Later transferred to Madhya Pradesh as CJ Later again transferred to Himachal Pradesh as CJ
9	Biswanath Somadder	27 April 2020	11 October 2021	1 year, 168 days	Transferred to Sikkim as CJ
10	Ranjit Vasantrao More	12 October 2021	3 November 2021	23 days
11	Sanjib Banerjee	24 November 2021	1 November 2023	1 year, 343 days
12	S. Vaidyanathan	11 February 2024	16 August 2024	188 days

Orissa High Court

Orissa High Court was established on 3 April 1948 under Orissa High Court Ordinance, 1948 and had 34 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Harish Tandon who is serving from 26 March 2025.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
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	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
3	Lingaraj Panigrahi	4 March 1953	21 March 1956	3 years, 18 days
4	Ramaswamy Laxman Narasimham	22 March 1956	27 December 1964	8 years, 281 days
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
7	Gati Krushna Misra	1 May 1969	30 October 1970	6 years, 183 days
8	Siba Narain Sankar	1 November 1975	12 October 1977	1 year, 346 days
9	Sukanta Kishore Ray	13 October 1977	4 November 1980	3 years, 23 days
10	Ranganath Mishra	16 January 1981	14 March 1983	2 years, 58 days	Later served as 21st Chief Justice of India
11	Dambarudhar Pathak	11 August 1983	28 February 1986	2 years, 202 days
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 of India
14	Girish Thakorlal Nanavati	31 January 1994	27 September 1994	240 days	Transferred to Karnataka as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
15	Vallabhdas Aidan Mohta	28 September 1994	25 April 1995	210 days
16	Sailendu Nath Phukan	2 August 1996	27 January 1999	2 years, 179 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
17	Biswanath Agrawal	18 November 1999	18 October 2000	336 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
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	Transferred to Jharkhand as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
20	Sujit Barman Roy	10 March 2003	21 January 2007	3 years, 325 days
21	Ashok Kumar Ganguly	2 March 2007	18 May 2008	1 year, 78 days	Transferred to Madras as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
22	Balbir Singh Chauhan	16 July 2008	10 May 2009	299 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
23	Bilal Nazki	14 November 2009	17 November 2009	4 days
24	Venkate Gopala Gowda	25 March 2010	23 December 2012	2 years, 274 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
25	Chokkalingam Nagappan	27 February 2013	18 September 2013	204 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
26	Adarsh Kumar Goel	12 October 2013	6 July 2014	268 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
27	Amitava Roy	6 August 2014	26 February 2015	205 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
28	Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela	4 June 2015	14 February 2016	256 days	Transferred to Bombay as CJ
29	Vineet Saran	26 February 2016	6 August 2018	2 years, 162 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
30	Kalpesh Satyendra Jhaveri	12 August 2018	4 January 2020	1 year, 146 days
31	Mohammad Rafiq	27 April 2020	3 January 2021	252 days	Transferred to Madhya Pradesh as CJ Later transferred to Himachal Pradesh as CJ
32	S. Muralidhar	4 January 2021	7 August 2023	2 years, 216 days
33	Subhasis Talapatra	8 August 2023	3 October 2023	57 days
34	Chakradhari Sharan Singh	7 February 2024	19 January 2025	348 days

Patna High Court

Patna High Court was established on 2 September 1916 under Letters Patent issued by then British Crown and had 44 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Ashutosh Kumar (Acting) who is serving from 16 January 2025.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
Pre Independence
1	Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier	1 March 1916	30 October 1917	1 year, 244 days
2	Thomas Fredrick Dawson Miller	31 October 1917	30 March 1928	10 years, 152 days
3	Courtney Terrell	31 March 1928	6 May 1938	10 years, 37 days
4	Arthur Trevor Harries	10 October 1938	18 January 1943	4 years, 101 days	Transferred to Lahore as CJ^[34] Later transferred to Calcutta as CJ
5	Syed Fazl Ali	19 January 1943	14 October 1946	3 years, 269 days	Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
Post Independence
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	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
12	Vaidyanathier Ramaswami	30 April 1956	3 January 1965	8 years, 249 days
13	Ramaswamy Lakshmi Narasimhan	4 January 1965	2 August 1968	3 years, 212 days
14	Satish Chandra Sharma	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	1 May 1976	1 year, 212 days
18	Krishna Ballabh Narayan Singh	19 July 1976	12 March 1982	5 years, 237 days
19	Surjit Singh Sandhawalia	29 November 1983	27 July 1987	3 years, 241 days
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
22	Shushil Kumar Jha	19 October 1989	23 October 1989	5 days	Transferred to Madhya Pradesh as CJ
23	Gangadhar Ganesh Sohani	24 October 1989	17 December 1990	1 year, 55 days
24	Bimal Chandra Basak	18 March 1991	21 October 1993	2 years, 218 days
25	Krishnaswami Sundara Paripoornan	24 January 1994	11 June 1994	142 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
26	Konduswami Venkataswamy	19 September 1994	6 March 1995	169 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
27	Gopal Ballav Pattanaik	19 May 1995	11 September 1995	116 days	Later served as 32nd Chief Justice of India
28	Devinder Pratap Wadhwa	29 September 1995	21 March 1997	1 year, 174 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
29	B.M. Lal	9 July 1997	6 October 1999	2 years, 90 days
30	Ravi Swaroop Dhavan	25 January 2000	22 July 2004	4 years, 180 days
31	J.N. 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	Later served as 41st Chief Justice of India
34	Jacob Benjamin Koshy	16 March 2009	12 May 2009	58 days
35	Prafulla Kumar Mishra	12 August 2009	16 September 2009	36 days
36	Dipak Misra	23 December 2009	23 May 2010	2 years, 194 days	Transferred to Delhi as CJ Later served as 45th Chief Justice of India
37	Rekha Manharlal Doshit	21 June 2010	12 December 2014	4 years, 206 days	First Female CJ of Patna
38	L. Narasimha Reddy	2 January 2015	31 July 2015	211 days
39	Iqbal Ahmed Ansari	29 July 2016	28 October 2016	92 days
40	Rajendra Menon	15 March 2017	8 August 2018	1 year, 147 days	Transferred to Delhi as CJ
41	Mukesh Rasikbhai Shah	12 August 2018	1 November 2018	82 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
42	Amreshwar Pratap Sahi	17 November 2018	10 November 2019	359 days	Transferred to Madras as CJ
43	Sanjay Karol	11 November 2019	6 February 2023	3 years, 88 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
44	Krishnan Vinod Chandran	29 March 2023	15 January 2025	1 year, 293 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India

Punjab and Haryana High Court

Punjab and Haryana High Court was established on 15 August 1947 under Punjab High Court Ordinance, 1947 and had 35 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Sheel Nagu who is serving from 9 July 2024.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	Ram Lall	15 August 1947	18 January 1949	1 year, 157 days
2	Sudhi Ranjan Das	19 January 1949	20 January 1950	1 year, 2 days	Later served as 5th Chief Justice of India
3	Eric Weston	21 January 1950	8 December 1952	2 years, 323 days
4	Amar Nath Bhandari	9 December 1952	18 November 1959	6 years, 345 days
5	Gopal Das Khosla	19 November 1959	14 November 1961	1 year, 361 days
6	Donald Falshaw	15 December 1961	29 May 1966	4 years, 166 days
7	Mehar Singh	30 May 1966	14 August 1970	4 years, 77 days
8	Harbans Singh	15 August 1970	8 April 1974	3 years, 237 days
9	Daya Krishan Mahajan	10 April 1974	10 May 1974	31 days
10	Ranjit Singh Narula	11 May 1974	31 October 1977	3 years, 174 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
11	Anand Dev Koshal	1 November 1977	16 July 1978	258 days
12	Surjit Singh Sandhawalia	17 July 1978	28 November 1983	5 years, 135 days	Transferred to Patna as CJ
13	Prem Chand Jain	1 August 1985	17 August 1986	1 year, 17 days	Served as Acting Chief Justice for almost 2 years from 28 November 1983 to 31 July 1985 before being elevated as Chief Justice
14	Hariday Nath Seth	18 August 1986	14 October 1987	1 year, 58 days
15	Debi Singh Tewatia	15 October 1987	29 October 1987	15 days	Transferred to Calcutta as CJ
16	Veeraswami Ramaswami	12 November 1987	6 October 1989	1 year, 329 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
17	Shanti Sarup Dewan	24 October 1989	31 December 1989	69 days
18	Jitendra Vir Gupta	9 July 1990	1 May 1991	297 days
19	Bipin Chandra Verma	19 September 1991	2 May 1992	227 days
20	Mandagadde Rama Jois	3 May 1992	31 August 1992	121 days
21	Sudarshan Dayal Aggarwal	13 November 1992	14 January 1994	1 year, 63 days
22	Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar	16 January 1994	27 March 1996	2 years, 72 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
23	K. Sreedharan	30 July 1996	18 October 1997	1 year, 81 days
24	A. B. Saharya	7 November 1997	14 September 2002	4 years, 312 days
25	Binod Kumar Roy	14 October 2002	21 February 2005	2 years, 131 days	Transferred to Gauhati as CJ Later transferred to Sikkim as CJ
26	Devinder Kumar Jain	11 March 2005	9 April 2006	1 year, 30 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
27	Vijender Jain	28 November 2006	1 August 2008	1 year, 248 days
28	Tirath Singh Thakur	11 August 2008	16 November 2009	1 year, 98 days	Later served as 43rd Chief Justice of India
29	Mukul Mudgal	5 December 2009	3 January 2011	1 year, 30 days
30	Ranjan Gogoi	12 February 2011	22 April 2012	70 days	Later served as 46th Chief Justice of India
31	Arjan Kumar Sikri	23 September 2012	11 April 2013	201 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
32	Sanjay Kishan Kaul	1 June 2013	25 July 2014	1 year, 55 days	Transferred to Madras as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
33	Shiavax Jal Vazifdar	7 August 2016	3 May 2018	1 year, 270 days	Served as Acting Chief Justice for more than 1.5 years from 15 December 2014 to 6 August 2016 before being elevated as Chief Justice
34	Krishna Murari	2 June 2018	22 September 2019	1 year, 113 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
35	Ravi Shankar Jha	6 October 2019	13 October 2023	4 years, 8 days

Rajasthan High Court

Rajasthan High Court was established on 21 June 1949 under Rajasthan High Court Ordinance, 1949 and had 45 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava who is serving from 6 February 2024.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	Kamalkanta Verma	29 August 1949	24 January 1950	149 days
2	Kailas Nath Wanchoo	2 January 1951	10 August 1958	7 years, 221 days	Later served as 10th Chief Justice of India
3	Sarju Prasad	28 February 1959	10 October 1961	2 years, 225 days
4	J.S. Ranawat	11 October 1961	31 May 1963	1 year, 233 days
5	D.S. Dave	1 June 1963	17 December 1968	5 years, 200 days
6	Daulat Mal Bhandari	18 December 1968	15 December 1969	363 days
7	J. Narayan	16 December 1969	13 February 1973	3 years, 60 days
8	B. P. Beri	14 February 1973	16 February 1975	2 years, 3 days
9	Prakash Narayan Shinghal	17 February 1975	5 November 1975	262 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
10	V. P. Tyagi	6 November 1975	27 December 1977	2 years, 52 days
11	C. Honniah	27 April 1978	22 September 1978	149 days
12	Chand Mal Lodha	12 March 1979	9 July 1980	1 year, 120 days
13	K. D. Sharma	7 January 1981	22 October 1983	2 years, 289 days
14	P. K. Banerjee	23 October 1983	30 September 1985	1 year, 343 days
15	D. P. Gupta	12 April 1986	31 July 1986	111 days
16	Jagdish Sharan Verma	1 September 1986	22 May 1989	2 years, 264 days	Later served as 27th Chief Justice of India
17	Krishna Chandra Agarwal	15 April 1990	7 April 1994	3 years, 358 days	Transferred to Calcutta as CJ
18	Gokal Chand Mittal	12 April 1994	3 March 1995	326 days
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
21	Shivaraj Virupanna Patil	22 January 1999	14 March 2000	1 year, 53 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
22	Arunachalam R. Lakshmanan	29 May 2000	25 November 2001	1 year, 181 days	Transferred to Undivded Andhra Pradesh as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
23	Arun Kumar	2 December 2001	2 October 2002	305 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
24	Anil Dev Singh	24 December 2002	22 October 2004	1 year, 304 days
25	S. N. Jha	12 October 2005	15 June 2007	1 year, 247 days
26	J. M. Panchal	16 September 2007	11 November 2007	57 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
27	Narayan Roy	5 January 2008	31 January 2009	1 year, 27 days
28	Deepak Verma	6 March 2009	10 May 2009	69 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
29	Jagadish Bhalla	10 August 2009	31 October 2010	1 year, 83 days
30	Arun Kumar Mishra	26 November 2010	13 December 2012	2 years, 18 days	Transferred to Calcutta as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
31	Amitava Roy	2 January 2013	5 August 2014	1 year, 216 days	Transferred to Orissa as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
32	Sunil Ambwani	24 March 2015	21 August 2015	151 days
33	Satish Kumar Mittal	5 March 2016	14 April 2016	41 days
34	Navin Sinha	14 May 2016	17 February 2017	280 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
35	Pradeep Nandrajog	2 April 2017	6 April 2019	2 years, 5 days	Transferred to Bombay as CJ
36	Shripathi Ravindra Bhat	5 May 2019	23 September 2019	142 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
37	Indrajit Mahanty	6 October 2019	11 October 2021	2 years, 6 days	Transferred to Tripura as CJ
38	Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi	12 October 2021	6 March 2022	146 days
39	Sambhaji Shiwaji Shinde	21 June 2022	1 August 2022	42 days
40	Pankaj Mithal	14 October 2022	5 February 2023	115 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
41	Augustine George Masih	30 May 2023	8 November 2023	163 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India

Sikkim High Court

Sikkim High Court was established on 16 May 1975 under The 36th Amendment to the Indian Constitution and had 21 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Biswanath Somadder who is serving from 12 October 2021.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	Man Mohan Singh Gujral	7 May 1976	14 March 1983	6 years, 312 days
2	Mohan Lall Shrimal	17 December 1983	3 January 1985	1 year, 18 days
3	Jugal Kishore Mohanty	21 January 1986	4 January 1989	2 years, 350 days
4	Braja Nath Misra	20 January 1990	8 November 1992	2 years, 294 days
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
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
9	Radha Krishna Patra	9 July 2003	23 November 2004	1 year, 138 days
10	Binod Kumar Roy	30 September 2005	26 December 2006	1 year, 88 days
11	Ajoy Nath Ray	27 January 2007	30 October 2008	1 year, 278 days
12	Aftab Hussain Saikia	7 March 2009	7 April 2010	1 year, 32 days	Transferred to Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as CJ
13	Barin Ghosh	13 April 2010	5 August 2010	115 days	Transferred to Uttarakhand as CJ
14	Paul Daniel Dinakaran Premkumar	9 August 2010	29 July 2011	355 days
15	Permod Kohli	12 December 2011	27 February 2013	1 year, 78 days
16	Pius C. Kuriakose	28 February 2013	1 October 2013	188 days
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 K. 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	1 year, 83 days	Transferred to Andhra Pradesh as CJ Later transferred to Chhattisgarh as CJ
22	Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari	6 January 2021	30 August 2021	237 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India

Telangana High Court

Telangana High Court was established on 1 January 2019 under Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 and had 7 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Sujoy Paul (Acting) who is serving from 21 January 2024.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan	1 January 2019	2 April 2019	92 days	Transferred to Calcutta as CJ
2	Raghvendra Singh Chauhan	22 June 2019	6 January 2021	1 year, 199 days	Transferred to Uttarakhand as CJ
3	Hima Kohli	7 January 2021	30 August 2021	236 days	First Female CJ of Telangana Elevated to Supreme Court of India
4	Satish Chandra Sharma	11 October 2021	27 June 2022	260 days	Transferred to Delhi as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
5	Ujjal Bhuyan	28 June 2022	13 July 2023	1 year, 16 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
6	Alok Aradhe	23 July 2023	20 January 2025	1 year, 182 days	Transferred to Bombay as CJ

Tripura High Court

Tripura High Court was established on 26 March 2013 under North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2012 and had 7 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh who is serving from 17 April 2023.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	Deepak Gupta	23 March 2013	15 May 2016	3 years, 54 days	Transferred to Chhattisgarh as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
2	T. Vaiphei	21 September 2016	28 February 2018	1 year, 161 days
3	Ajay Rastogi	1 March 2018	2 November 2018	247 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
4	Sanjay Karol	14 November 2018	10 November 2019	362 days	Transferred to Patna as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
5	Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi	16 November 2019	11 October 2021	1 year, 330 days	Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ
6	Indrajit Mahanty	12 October 2021	10 November 2022	1 year, 30 days
7	Jaswant Singh	15 February 2023	22 February 2023	8 days

Uttarakhand High Court

Uttarakhand High Court was established on 9 November 2000 under Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 and had 13 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Guhanathan Narendar who is serving from 26 December 2024.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	Ashok Desai	6 December 2000	31 March 2003	2 years, 116 days
2	Sarosh Homi Kapadia	5 August 2003	17 December 2003	135 days	Later served as 38th Chief Justice of India
3	V. S. Sirpurkar	25 July 2004	19 March 2005	238 days	Transferred to Calcutta as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
4	Cyriac Joseph	20 March 2005	6 January 2006	293 days	Transferred to Karnataka as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
5	Rajeev Gupta	14 January 2006	1 February 2008	2 years, 19 days	Transferred to Chhattisgarh as CJ
6	Vinod Kumar Gupta	2 February 2008	9 September 2009	1 year, 220 days
7	Jagdish Singh Khehar	29 November 2009	7 August 2010	252 days	Transferred to Karnataka as CJ Later served as 44th Chief Justice of India
8	Barin Ghosh	12 August 2010	4 June 2014	3 years, 297 days
9	Kuttiyil Mathew Joseph	31 July 2014	6 August 2018	4 years, 7 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
10	Ramesh Ranganathan	2 November 2018	27 July 2020	1 year, 269 days
11	Raghvendra Singh Chauhan	7 January 2021	23 December 2021	351 days
12	Vipin Sanghi	28 June 2022	26 October 2023	1 year, 121 days
13	Ritu Bahri	4 February 2024	10 October 2024	250 days	First Female of CJ of Uttarakhand

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[1] Sir Archibald Henry Braund. "The Court is Launched". allahabadhighcourt.in. Retrieved 27 March 2018.

[2] Sir Archibald Henry Braund. "The Court is Launched". allahabadhighcourt.in. Retrieved 27 March 2018.

[3] "Colonies And India". newspaperarchive.com. 5 March 1886. Retrieved 26 March 2018.

[4] "No. 25605". The London Gazette. 6 July 1886. p. 3276.

[5] "Justice DY Chandrachud Take Oath 50th Chief Justice Of India". 2022-11-09. Retrieved 2025-02-24.

[bs-6] "DB Bhosale takes over as Chief Justice of Allahabad HC". Business Standard. 30 July 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2017.

[7] Upadhyay, Sparsh (2021-10-09). "Breaking: Centre Notifies The Appointment Of Justice Rajesh Bindal As The Chief Justice Of Allahabad High Court". www.livelaw.in. Retrieved 2025-02-24.

[8] "Justice Rajesh Bindal, Justice Aravind Kumar sworn in as Supreme Court judges". The Indian Express. 2023-02-13. Retrieved 2025-02-24.

[9] Sucheta (2023-04-03). "Know Thy Judge | Justice Pritinker Diwaker: The 50th Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court". SCC Times. Retrieved 2025-02-24.

[10] Staff, T. N. M. (2019-10-07). "Justice JK Maheshwari sworn-in as first Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court". The News Minute. Retrieved 2025-02-24.

[11] Bench, Bar & (2021-08-18). "[BREAKING] Collegium resolution recommending nine persons for elevation to Supreme Court published on SC website [READ RESOLUTION]". Bar and Bench - Indian Legal news. Retrieved 2025-02-24.

[12] "Prashant Kumar Mishra is new Chief Justice of AP High Court". Deccan Chronicle. 2021-10-09. Retrieved 2025-02-24.

[13] "Justice P.K. Mishra and senior advocate K.V. Viswanathan sworn in as judges of the Supreme Court". The Leaflet. 2023-05-19. Retrieved 2025-02-24.

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[15] "Justice Dipankar Datta Sworn In as Bombay High Court Chief Justice". Mumbai Mirror. April 29, 2020. Retrieved 2025-02-25.

[16] "Justice Dipankar Datta sworn-in as Supreme Court judge". The Indian Express. 2022-12-13. Retrieved 2025-02-25.

[17] Sajeev, Upasana (2023-05-26). "Centre Notifies Appointment Of Justice RD Dhanuka As Chief Justice Of Bombay High Court, To Have A Tenure Of 4 Days As CJ". www.livelaw.in. Retrieved 2025-02-25.

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