# List of chief justices of the Uttarakhand High Court

The chief justice of the Uttarakhand High Court is the highest presiding judicial officer in the state of Uttarakhand and the custodian of the Uttarakhand High Court. The chief justice is appointed by the President of India with the advice of the chief justice and the Governor of Uttarakhand. Guhanathan Narendar is the current Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court. He assumed office on 26 December 2024.

## List of chief justices of Uttarakhand
### List of chief justices

| # | Chief Justice | Term start | Term end |
| 1 | Walter Morgan | 1866 | 1871 |
| 2 | Robert Stuart | 1871 | 1884 |
| 3 | William Comer Petheram | 1884 | 1886 |
| 4 | John Edge | 1886 | 1898 |
| 5 | Louis Addin Kershaw | 1898 | |
| 6 | Arthur Strachey | 1898 | 1901 |
| 7 | John Stanley | 1901 | 1911 |
| 8 | Henry George Richards | 1911 | 1919 |
| 9 | Edward Grimwood Mears | 1919 | 1932 |
| 10 | Shah Muhammad Sulaiman | 1932 | 1937 |
| 11 | John Gibb Thom | 1937 | 1941 |
| 12 | Iqbal Ahmad | 1941 | 1946 |
| 13 | Kamala Kanta Verma | 1946 | 1947 |
| After Independence |||||
| 14 | Bidhu Bhushan Malik | 1947 | 1955 |
| 15 | O.H. Mootham | 1955 | 1961 |
| 16 | Manulal Chunilal Desai | 1961 | 1966 |
| 17 | Vashishtha Bhargava | 25 February 1966 | 7 August 1966 |
| 18 | Nasirullah Beg | 1966 | 1967 |
| 19 | Vidyadhar Govind Oak | 1967 | 1971 |
| 20 | Shashi Kanta Verma | 1971 | 1973 |
| 21 | Dhatri Saran Mathur | 1973 | 1974 |
| 22 | Kunwar Bahadur Asthana | 1974 | 1977 |
| 23 | D. M. Chandrashekhar | 1977 | 1978 |
| 24 | Satish Chandra | 1978 | 1983 |
| 25 | Mahesh Narain Shukla | 1983 | 1985 |
| 26 | Hriday Nath Seth | 1986 | |
| 27 | Kalmanje Jagannatha Shetty | 1986 | 1987 |
| 28 | Dwarka Nath Jha | 1987 | |
| 29 | Amitav Banerji | 1987 | 1988 |
| 30 | Brahma Nath Katju | 1988 | 1989 |
| 31 | B. P. Jeevan Reddy | 1990 | 1991 |
| 32 | Manoj Kumar Mukherjee | 1991 | 1993 |
| 33 | S. S. Sodhi | 1994 | 1995 |
| 34 | A. Lakshman Rao | 1995 | 1996 |
| 35 | D. P. Mohapatra | 1996 | 1998 |
| 36 | N. K. Mitra | 1999 | 2000 |
| 37 | Shyamal Kumar Sen | 8 May 2000 | 9 November 2000 |
| 38 | Ashok Desai (1942–2006) | 9 November 2000 | 5 December 2000 |
| 39 | Ashok Desai (1942–2006) | 6 December 2000 | 31 March 2003 |
| 40 | Prakash Chandra Verma (born 1951) | 1 April 2003 | 4 August 2003 |
| 41 | Sarosh Homi Kapadia (1947–2016) | 5 August 2003 | 17 December 2003 |
| 42 | Prakash Chandra Verma (born 1951) | 18 December 2003 | 24 July 2004 |
| 43 | Vikas Shridhar Sirpurkar (born 1946) | 25 July 2004 | 19 March 2005 |
| 44 | Cyriac Joseph (born 1947) | 20 March 2005 | 7 January 2006 |
| 45 | Prakash Chandra Verma (born 1951) | 8 January 2006 | 13 January 2006 |
| 46 | Rajiv Gupta (born 1950) | 14 January 2006 | 1 February 2008 |
| 47 | Vinod Kumar Gupta (born 1947) | 2 February 2008 | 9 September 2009 |
| 48 | Bipin Chandra Kandpal (born 1948) | 10 September 2009 | 24 September 2009 |
| 49 | Tarun Agarwal (born 1956) | 25 September 2009 | 28 November 2009 |
| 50 | Jagdish Singh Khehar (born 1952) | 29 November 2009 | 11 August 2010 |
| 51 | Barin Ghosh (1952–2015) | 12 August 2010 | 4 June 2014 |
| 52 | Sudhanshu Dhulia (born 1960) | 5 June 2014 | 30 July 2014 |
| 53 | Kuttiyil Mathew Joseph (born 1958) | 31 July 2014 | 6 August 2018 |
| 54 | Rajeev Sharma (born 1958) | 7 August 2018 | 1 November 2018 |
| 55 | Ramesh Ranganathan (born 1958) | 2 November 2018 | 27 July 2020 |
| 56 | Ravi Malimath (born 1962) | 28 July 2020 | 6 January 2021 |
| 57 | Raghvendra Singh Chauhan (born 1959) | 7 January 2021 | 23 December 2021 |
| 58 | Sanjaya Kumar Mishra (born 1961) | 24 December 2021 | 28 June 2022 |
| 59 | Vipin Sanghi (born 1961) | 28 June 2022 | 26 October 2023 |
| 60 | Manoj Kumar Tiwari (born 1965) | 27 October 2023 | 3 February 2024 |
| 61 | Ritu Bahri (born 1962) | 4 February 2024 | 10 October 2024 |
| 62 | Manoj Kumar Tiwari (born 1965) | 11 October 2024 | 25 December 2024 |
| 63 | Guhanathan Narendar (born 1964) | 26 December 2024 | Incumbent |