# List of chief justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay

This is a list of chief justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay. It was in existence from 1824 to 1862, when the Bombay High Court was founded. The role of the judges of the court was to defend, on behalf of the British Crown, the interests of the people of Bombay against the East India Company.
The Supreme Court was preceded by the Recorder's Court, established in 1798.

## List

| # | Chief Justice | Took office | Took office |
| 1 | Sir William Syer | 1798 | Died 1802 |
| 2 | Sir James Mackintosh | 1803 | |
| 3 | Sir John Henry Newbolt | 1811 | |
| 4 | Sir Alexander Anstruther | 1812 | Died 1819 |
| 5 | Sir D. Evans | 1820 | Died 1821 |
| 6 | Sir Edward West | 1822 | Became Chief Justice of Supreme Court, 1823 |
| 6 | Sir Edward West | 1823 | first year was in the Recorder's Court |
| 7 | Sir James Dewar | 1829 | |
| 8 | Sir Herbert Abingdon Draper Compton | 1831 | |
| 9 | Sir John Wither Awdry | 1839 | |
| 10 | Sir Henry Roper | 1840 | |
| 11 | Sir David Pollock | 1846 | |
| 12 | Sir Thomas Erskine Perry | 1847 | |
| 13 | Sir William Yardley | 1852 | |
| 14 | Sir Matthew Richard Sausse | 1859 | became Bombay High Court Chief Judge in 1862 |
| 14 | Sir Mathew Richard Sausse | 1862 | 1866 |
| 15 | Sir Richard Couch | 1866 | 1870 |
| 16 | Sir Michael Roberts Westropp | 1870 | 1882 |
| 17 | Sir Charles Sargent | 1882 | 1895 |
| 18 | Sir Charles Frederick Farran | 1895 | 1898 |
| 19 | Sir Louis Addin Kershaw | 1898 | 1899 |
| 20 | Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins | 1899 | 1908 |
| 21 | Sir Basil Scott | 1908 | 1919 |
| 22 | Sir Norman Cranstoun Macleod | 1919 | 1926 |
| 23 | Sir Amberson Barrington Marten | 1926 | 1930 |
| 24 | Sir John William Fisher Beaumont | 1930 | 1943 |
| 25 | Sir Leonard Stone | 1943 | 1947 |
| After Independence |||||
| 26 | Sir Leonard Stone | 1947 | 1948 |
| 27 | Mahommedali Currim Chagla | 1948 | 1958 |
| 28 | Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani | 1958 | 1965 |
| 29 | Yeshwant Shripad Tambe | 1965 | 4 February 1966 |
| 29 | Yeshwant Shripad Tambe | 5 February 1966 | 31 July 1966 |
| 30 | Sohrab Peshotan Kotval | 1 August 1966 | 26 September 1972 |
| 31 | K. Kalyandas Desai | 27 September 1972 | 26 October 1972 |
| 32 | Ramanlal Maneklal Kantawala | 27 October 1972 | 5 October 1978 |
| 33 | B. N. Deshmukh | 6 October 1978 | 18 November 1980 |
| 34 | Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande | 19 November 1980 | 11 January 1981 |
| 34 | Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande | 12 January 1981 | 11 August 1982 |
| 35 | Dinshah Pirosha Madon | 12 August 1982 | 30 August 1982 |
| 35 | Dinshah Pirosha Madon | 31 August 1982 | 14 March 1983 |
| 36 | Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar | 15 March 1983 | 14 March 1984 |
| 37 | Konda Madhava Reddy | 8 April 1984 | 21 October 1985 |
| 38 | Madhukar Hiralal Kania | 23 June 1986 | 1 May 1987 |
| 39 | Chittatosh Mookerjee | 2 November 1987 | 31 December 1990 |
| 40 | Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai | 7 January 1991 | 13 December 1992 |
| 41 | Manoj Kumar Mukherjee | 9 January 1993 | 14 December 1993 |
| 42 | Sujata Manohar | 15 January 1994 | 7 November 1994 |
| 43 | Anandamoy Bhattacharjee | 21 April 1994 | 1 April 1995 |
| 44 | Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah | 2 August 1995 | 9 December 1998 |
| 45 | Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal | 3 February 1999 | 28 January 2000 |
| 46 | Bisheshwar Prasad Singh | 31 March 2000 | 14 December 2001 |
| 47 | Chunilal Karsandas Thakker | 31 December 2001 | 7 June 2004 |
| 48 | Dalveer Bhandari | 25 July 2004 | 27 October 2005 |
| 49 | Kshitij R. Vyas | 25 February 2006 | 18 July 2006 |
| 50 | Harjit Singh Bedi | 3 October 2006 | 12 January 2007 |
| 51 | Swatanter Kumar | 31 March 2007 | 30 December 2009 |
| 52 | Anil Ramesh Dave | 11 February 2010 | 29 April 2010 |
| 53 | Mohit Shantilal Shah | 26 June 2010 | 8 September 2015 |
| 54 | Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela | 15 February 2016 | 10 August 2016 |
| 55 | Manjula Chellur | 22 August 2016 | 4 December 2017 |
| 56 | Vijaya Tahilramani | 5 December 2017 | 12 August 2018 |
| 57 | Naresh Harishchandra Patil | 13 August 2018 | 28 October 2018 |
| 57 | Naresh Harishchandra Patil | 29 October 2018 | 6 April 2019 |
| 58 | Pradeep Nandrajog | 7 April 2019 | 23 February 2020 |
| 59 | B. P. Dharmadhikari | 24 February 2020 | 19 March 2020 |
| 59 | B. P. Dharmadhikari | 20 March 2020 | 27 April 2020 |
| 60 | Dipankar Datta | 28 April 2020 | 11 December 2022 |
| 61 | Ramesh Devkinandan Dhanuka | 28 May 2023 | 30 May 2023 |
| 62 | Nitin Jamdar | 30 May 2023 | 28 July 2023 |
| 63 | Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya | 29 July 2023 | Present |