# List of chief justices of the Bombay High Court

This is a list of chief justices of the Bombay High Court. See List of chief justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay for previous chief justices.

## 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 |
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| 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 | 20 January 2025 |
| 64 | Alok Aradhe | 21 January 2025 | Present |