List of Acting Chief Justices of Sri Lanka
Provisional & acting Chief Justices

List of Acting Chief Justices of Sri Lanka

Section Title: Provisional & acting Chief Justices
Table Section Text: None

Name	Province	Term	Elevated by

Sir Alexander Johnston §	3 April 1806 - 5 April 1807

Sir William Coke§	6 March 1809 - 1811

Sir Charles Marshall	18 February 1833 - 1836

7	Sir William Rough	9 March 1836 - April 1836

9	Sir William Rough	April 1837 - 1838

P. J. Sterling	1859 - 1860

Sir Richard Morgan	1875	William Henry Gregory

C. H. Stewart	1875 - 1876

Sir George Anderson	1876 - 1877

Lovell Burchett Clarence	1882

Sir Alfred Lascelles	1906

William Thomas Porter	1921

Sir Francis Soertsz	1939

Sir Francis Soertsz	1945 and 1946

Eugene Reginald de Fonseka	1960 and 1962	Sir Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke

Chellappah Nagalingam	Northern Province	1954

Sentence(s)

Eugene Reginald de Fonseka served as the acting Chief Justice of Sri Lanka in 1960 and 1962.

final_sentence: Eugene Reginald de Fonseka served as the acting Chief Justice of Sri Lanka in 1960 and 1962.