List of Chief Justices of the Bombay High Court
This is a list of chief justices of the Bombay High Court. See List of Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay for previous chief justices.

List of Chief Justices of the Bombay High Court

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Table Section Text: This is a list of chief justices of the Bombay High Court. See List of Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay for previous chief justices.

Chief Justice	Term

Sir Matthew Richard Sausse	1862-1866

Sir Richard Couch	1866-1870

Sir Michael Roberts Westropp	1870-1882

Sir Charles Sargent	1882-1895

Sir Charles Frederick Farran	1895-1898

Sir Louis Addin Kershaw	1898-1899

Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins	1899-1908

Sir Basil Scott	1908-1919

Sir Norman Cranstoun Macleod	1919-1926

Sir Amberson Barrington Marten	1926-1930

Sir John William Fisher Beaumont	1930-1943

Sir Leonard Stone	1943-1948

Mahommedali Currim Chagla	1948-1958

Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani	1958-1965

Yeshwant Shripad Tambe	1965-1966

Sohrab Peshotan Kotval	1966-1972

K. Kalyandas Desai	1972

Ramanlal Maneklal Kantawala	1972-1978

B. N. Deshmukh	1978-1980

Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande	1980-1982

Dinshah Pirosha Madon	1982-1983

Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar	1983-1984

Konda Madhava Reddy	1984-1985

Madhukar Hiralal Kania	1985-1987

Chittatosh Mookerjee	1987-1991

Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai	1991-1992

Manoj Kumar Mukherjee	1993

Sujata Vasant Manohar	1994

Anandamoy Bhattacharjee	1994-1995

Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah	1995-1998

Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal	1999-2000

Bisheshwar Prasad Singh	2000-2001

Chunilal Karsandas Thakker	2001-2004

Dalveer Bhandari	24 July 2004 - 27 October 2005

Kshitij R. Vyas	2006-2006

Harjit Singh Bedi	2006-2007

Swatanter Kumar	2007-2009

Anil R. Dave	11 February 2010 - 29 April 2010

Mohit Shantilal Shah	2010 - 8 September 2015

Vijaya Tahilramani Acting CJ	2015-2016

Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela	15 February 2016 - 10 August 2016

Manjula Chellur	22 August 2016 -5 December 2017

Vijaya Tahilramani Acting CJ	6 December 2017 - 13 August 2018

Naresh Harishchandra Patil Acting CJ	13 August 2018 – 23 October 2018

Naresh Harishchandra Patil	24 October 2018 – 6 April 2019

Ajay R Nikam	7 April 2019 - Incumbent

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Sir Matthew Richard Sausse was the first Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court.

final_sentence: Sir Matthew Richard Sausse was the first Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court.