List of Chief Justices of the Uttarakhand High Court
List of the Chief Justices of Uttarakhand
Following is the list of the Chief Justices of Uttarakhand since its inception on 9 November 2000: Colour key

List of Chief Justices of the Uttarakhand High Court

Section Title: List of the Chief Justices of Uttarakhand
Table Section Text: Following is the list of the Chief Justices of Uttarakhand since its inception on 9 November 2000: Colour key

№	Name (birth–death)	Portrait	Term	Tenure	Appointed by (President of India)	Note

–	Ashok Desai (1942–2006)	9 November 2000	5 December 2000	26 days	K. R. Narayanan	First Chief Justice of Uttarakhand, assumed office as Acting Chief Justice. Resigned from office on 31 March 2003.

1	Ashok Desai (1942–2006)	6 December 2000	31 March 2003	2 years, 3 months and 25 days (Total 2 years, 4 months and 21 days)

–	Prakash Chandra Verma (born 1951)	1 April 2003	4 August 2003	4 months and 3 days	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

2	Sarosh Homi Kapadia (1947–2016)	-	5 August 2003	17 December 2003	4 months and 12 days	Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India, went on to become 38th Chief Justice of India.

–	Prakash Chandra Verma (born 1951)	18 December 2003	24 July 2004	7 months and 6 days

3	Vikas Shridhar Sirpurkar (born 1946)	25 July 2004	19 March 2005	7 months and 22 days	Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India.

4	Cyriac Joseph (born 1947)	-	20 March 2005	7 January 2006	9 months and 18 days	Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India.

–	Prakash Chandra Verma (born 1951)	8 January 2006	13 January 2006	5 days (Total 11 months and 14 days)

5	Rajiv Gupta (born 1950)	14 January 2006	1 February 2008	2 years and 18 days

6	Vinod Kumar Gupta (born 1947)	2 February 2008	9 September 2009	1 year, 7 months and 7 days	Pratibha Patil

–	Bipin Chandra Kandpal (born 1948)	10 September 2009	24 September 2009	14 days

–	Tarun Agarwala (born 1956)	25 September 2009	28 November 2009	2 months and 3 days

7	Jagdish Singh Khehar (born 1952)	-	29 November 2009	7 August 2010	8 months and 9 days	Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India, went on to become 44th Chief Justice of India.

8	Barin Ghosh (1952–2015)	8 August 2010	4 June 2014	3 years, 9 months and 27 days

–	Sudhanshu Dhulia (born 1960)	5 June 2014	30 July 2014	1 month and 25 days	Pranab Mukherjee

9	Kuttiyil Mathew Joseph (born 1958)	-	31 July 2014	6 August 2018	4 years and 6 days	Longest serving Chief Justice of Uttarakhand, later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India.

–	Rajiv Sharma (born 1960)	7 August 2018	1 November 2018	2 months and 25 days	Ram Nath Kovind

10	Ramesh Ranganathan (born 1958)	2 November 2018	Incumbent	5 months and 16 days

Sentence(s)

Ramesh Ranganathan (born 1958) is the current Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court.

final_sentence: Ramesh Ranganathan (born 1958) is the current Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court.