# List of chief justices of the Himachal Pradesh High Court

The Himachal Pradesh High Court is the High Court of the state of Himachal Pradesh.

## Chief Justice

On 14 October 2021, Justice Mohammad Rafiq took oath as the chief justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court.

## List of Chief Justices
### List

| # | Chief Justice | Took office | Left office |
| 1 | Sir Henry Meredyth Plowden | 1880 | 1895 |
| 2 | Sir Charles Arthur Roe | 1895 | 1898 |
| 3 | Sir William Ovens Clark | 1898 | 1909 |
| 4 | Sir Arthur Hay Stewart Reid | 1909 | 1914 |
| 5 | Sir Alfred Kensington | 1914 | 1915 |
| 6 | Sir Donald Campbell Johnstone | 1915 | 1917 |
| 7 | Sir Henry Adolphus Rattigan | 1917 | 1919 |
| 8 | Sir Shadi Lal | 1920 | 1934 |
| 9 | Sir John Douglas Young | 1934 | 1943 |
| 10 | Sir Arthur Trevor Harries | 1943 | 1946 |
| 11 | Sir Abdul Rashid | 1946 | 1947 |
| 12 | Justice Ram Lall | 15 August 1947 | 18 January 1949 |
| 13 | Justice Sudhi Ranjan Das | 19 January 1949 | 21 January 1950 |
| 14 | Justice Eric Weston | 21 January 1950 | 8 December 1952 |
| 15 | Justice Amar Nath Bandhari | 9 December 1952 | 18 November 1959 |
| 16 | Justice Gopal Das Ghosla | 19 November 1959 | 14 December 1961 |
| 17 | Justice Donald Falshaw | 15 December 1961 | 29 May 1966 (Res) |
| 18 | Justice Mehar Singh | 29 May 1966 | continued |
| 18 | Justice Mehar Singh | continued | 14 August 1970 |
| 19 | Justice Harbans Singh | 15 August 1970 | 25 January 1971 |
| 20 | Justice Daya Krishan Mahajan | 25 January 1971 | 25 January 1971 |
| 21 | M.H. Beg | 25 January 1971 | 9 December 1971 |
| 22 | R.S. Pathak | 18 March 1972 | 19 February 1978 |
| 23 | T.U. Mehta | 20 February 1978 | 11 December 1979 |
| 24 | V.D. Misra | 12 December 1979 | 30 September 1983 |
| 25 | Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai | 23 December 1983 | 13 November 1988 |
| 26 | Narendra Mohan Kasliwal | 29 March 1989 | 5 October 1989 |
| 27 | P.C.B. Menon | 6 November 1989 | 14 January 1991 |
| 28 | Leila Seth | 5 August 1991 | 20 October 1992 |
| 29 | Shashi Kant Seth | 22 June 1993 | 28 August 1993 |
| 30 | Viswanathan Ratnam | 29 January 1994 | 1 August 1994 |
| 31 | G.C. Gupta | 17 September 1994 | 1 March 1995 |
| 32 | Sailendu Nath Phukan | 1 March 1995 | 1 August 1996 |
| 33 | Madhavachari Srinivasan | 1 August 1996 | 24 September 1997 |
| 34 | Makani Narayana Rao | 6 November 1997 | 22 April 1998 |
| 35 | Doraiswamy Raju | 1 July 1998 | 28 January 2000 |
| 36 | C.K. Thakker | 5 May 2000 | 30 December 2001 |
| 37 | W.A. Shishak | 24 January 2002 | 1 January 2003 |
| 38 | Vinod Kumar Gupta | 8 March 2003 | 2 February 2008 |
| 39 | Jagadish Bhalla | 2 February 2008 | 7 August 2009 |
| 40 | Kurian Joseph | 8 February 2010 | 6 March 2013 |
| 41 | A.M. Khanwilkar | 5 April 2013 | 24 November 2013 |
| 42 | Mansoor Ahmad Mir | 18 June 2014 | 24 April 2017 |
| 43 | Surya Kant | 5 October 2018 | 23 May 2019 |
| 44 | V. Ramasubramanian | 22 June 2019 | 22 September 2019 |
| 45 | Lingappa Narayana Swamy | 6 October 2019 | 30 June 2021 |
| 46 | Mohammad Rafiq | 14 October 2021 | 24 May 2022 |
| 47 | Amjad Ahtesham Sayed | 23 June 2022 | 20 January 2023 |
| 48 | M. S. Ramachandra Rao | 30 May 2023 | 24 September 2024 |
| 49 | Rajiv Shakdher | 25 September 2024 | 18 October 2024 |
| 50 | Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia | 29 December 2024 | Incumbent |