# List of Former Chief Justices of High Courts of India

This Article is a list of former chief justices of the All Indian High Courts.

## Allahabad High Court

Allahabad High Court was established on 17 March 1866 under Indian High Courts Act 1861 and had total 50 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Arun Bhansali.
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| Pre Independence ||||||
| 1 | Walter Morgan | 1866 | 1871 | | Transferred to Madras as CJ |
| 2 | Robert Stuart | 1871 | 1884 | | |
| 3 | William Comer Petheram | 1884 | 1886 | | Transferred to Calcutta as CJ |
| 4 | John Edge | 1886 | 1898 | | |
| 5 | Louis Addin Kershaw | 1898 | 1898 | | Transferred to Bombay as CJ |
| 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 | 16 March 1932 | 30 September 1937 | 5 years, 199 days | |
| 11 | John Gibb Thom | 1937 | 1941 | | |
| 12 | Iqbal Ahmad | 1941 | 1946 | | |
| 13 | Kamalkanta Verma | 1946 | 1947 | | Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ |
| Post Independence ||||||
| 14 | Bidhu Bhushan Malik | 1947 | 1955 | | |
| 15 | Orby Howell Mootham | 1955 | 16 February 1961 | | |
| 16 | Manulal Chunilal Desai | 17 February 1961 | 24 February 1966 | 5 years, 39 days | |
| 17 | Vashishtha Bhargava | 25 February 1966 | 7 August 1966 | 164 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 18 | Nasirullah Beg | 5 June 1967 | 1967 | | |
| 19 | Vidyadhar Govind Oak | 4 June 1967 | 18 May 1971 | 3 years, 349 days | |
| 20 | Shashi Kanta Verma | 19 May 1971 | 5 November 1973 | 2 years, 171 days | |
| 21 | Dhatri Saran Mathur | 6 November 1973 | 13 November 1974 | 1 year, 8 days | |
| 22 | Kunwar Bahadur Asthana | 14 November 1974 | 9 May 1977 | 2 years, 177 days | |
| 23 | D. M. Chandrashekhar | 10 May 1977 | 21 March 1978 | 316 days | Transferred to Karnataka as CJ |
| 24 | Satish Chandra | 1978 | 1983 | | Transferred to Calcutta as CJ |
| 25 | Mahesh Narain Shukla | 29 November 1983 | 5 October 1985 | 1 year, 311 days | |
| 26 | Hriday Nath Seth | 1986 | 17 August 1986 | | Transferred to Punjab and Haryana as CJ |
| 27 | Kalmanje Jagannatha Shetty | 1 October 1986 | 1 May 1987 | 213 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 28 | Dwarka Nath Jha | 1987 | 1987 | | |
| 29 | Amitav Banerji | 16 July 1987 | 6 November 1988 | 1 year, 114 days | |
| 30 | Brahma Nath Katju | 7 November 1988 | 22 May 1989 | 197 days | |
| 31 | B. P. Jeevan Reddy | 16 April 1990 | 6 October 1991 | 1 year, 174 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 32 | Manoj Kumar Mukherjee | 12 November 1991 | 8 January 1993 | 1 year, 58 days | Transferred to Bombay as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 33 | Sarvinder Singh Sodhi | 29 April 1994 | 9 April 1995 | 346 days | |
| 34 | A. Lakshman Rao | 10 April 1995 | 14 January 1996 | 280 days | |
| 35 | Deba Priya Mohapatra | 16 February 1996 | 8 December 1998 | 2 years, 296 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 36 | N. K. Mitra | 1999 | 2000 | | |
| 37 | Shyamal Kumar Sen | 18 July 2000 | 24 November 2002 | 2 years, 130 days | |
| 38 | Tarun Chatterjee | 31 January 2003 | 26 August 2004 | 1 year, 209 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 39 | Ajoy Nath Ray | 11 January 2005 | 26 January 2007 | 2 years, 16 days | Transferred to Sikkim as CJ |
| 40 | Hemant Laxman Gokhale | 7 March 2007 | 8 March 2009 | 2 years, 2 days | Transferred to Madras as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 41 | Chandramauli Kumar Prasad | 20 March 2009 | 7 February 2010 | 325 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 42 | Ferdino Rebello | 26 June 2010 | 30 July 2011 | 1 year, 35 days | |
| 43 | Syed Rafat Alam | 5 August 2011 | 7 August 2012 | 1 year, 3 days | |
| 44 | Shiva Kirti Singh | 4 February 2013 | 18 September 2013 | 227 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 45 | Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud | 31 October 2013 | 12 May 2016 | 2 years, 195 days | Later served as 50th Chief Justice of India |
| 46 | Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale | 30 July 2016 | 23 October 2018 | 2 years, 86 days | |
| 47 | Govind Mathur | 14 November 2018 | 13 April 2021 | 2 years, 151 days | |
| 48 | Sanjay Yadav | 14 April 2021 | 25 June 2021 | 74 days | |
| 49 | Rajesh Bindal | 11 October 2021 | 12 February 2023 | 1 year, 125 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 50 | Pritinker Diwaker | 26 March 2023 | 21 November 2023 | 241 days | |

## Andhra Pradesh High Court

Andhra Pradesh High Court was established on 1 January 2019 under Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014 and had 3 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and current Chief Justice Dhiraj Singh Thakur.
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| 1 | Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari | 7 October 2019 | 5 January 2021 | 1 year, 91 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 2 | Arup Kumar Goswami | 6 January 2021 | 11 October 2021 | 279 days | Transferred to Chhattisgarh as CJ |
| 3 | Prashant Kumar Mishra | 13 October 2021 | 18 May 2023 | 1 year, 218 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |

## Bombay High Court

Bombay High Court was established on 14 August 1862 under Indian High Courts Act 1861 and had 47 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Alok Aradhe
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| Pre Independence ||||||
| 1 | Matthew Richard Sausse | 23 June 1862 | 1866 | | |
| 2 | Richard Couch | 1866 | 1870 | | Transferred to Calcutta as CJ |
| 3 | Michael Roberts Westropp | 1870 | 1882 | | |
| 4 | Charles Sargent | 1882 | 1895 | | |
| 5 | Charles Frederick Farran | 1895 | 1898 | | |
| 6 | Louis Addin Kershaw | 1898 | 1899 | | |
| 7 | Lawrence Hugh Jenkins | 1899 | 1908 | | Transferred to Calcutta as CJ |
| 8 | Basil Scott | 1908 | 1919 | | |
| 9 | Norman Cranstoun Macleod | 1919 | 1926 | | |
| 10 | Amberson Barrington Marten | 1926 | 1930 | | |
| 11 | John William Fisher Beaumont | 1930 | 1943 | | Longest serving CJ of Bombay |
| 12 | Leonard Stone | 30 September 1943 | 1948 | | During his tenure India got Independence |
| Post Independence ||||||
| 13 | Mahommedali Currim Chagla | 1948 | 26 October 1958 | | |
| 14 | Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani | 27 October 1958 | 1965 | | |
| 15 | Yeshwant Shripad Tambe | 5 February 1966 | 31 July 1966 | 177 days | |
| 16 | Sohrab Peshotan Kotval | 1 August 1966 | 27 September 1972 | 6 years, 58 days | |
| 17 | K. Kalyandas Desai | 28 September 1972 | 27 October 1972 | 30 days | |
| 18 | Ramanlal Maneklal Kantawala | 28 October 1972 | 5 October 1978 | 5 years, 343 days | |
| 19 | B. N. Deshmukh | 6 October 1978 | 19 November 1980 | 2 years, 45 days | |
| 20 | Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande | 12 January 1981 | 11 August 1982 | 1 year, 212 days | |
| 21 | Dinshah Pirosha Madon | 31 August 1982 | 14 March 1983 | 196 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 22 | Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar | 15 March 1983 | 2 April 1984 | 1 year, 19 days | Transferred to Madras as CJ |
| 23 | Konda Madhava Reddy | 8 April 1984 | 21 October 1985 | 1 year, 197 days | |
| 24 | Madhukar Hiralal Kania | 23 June 1986 | 30 April 1987 | 312 days | Later served as 23rd Chief Justice of India |
| 25 | Chittatosh Mookerjee | 2 November 1987 | 1 January 1991 | 3 years, 61 days | |
| 26 | Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai | 7 January 1991 | 14 December 1992 | 1 year, 343 days | |
| 27 | Manoj Kumar Mukherjee | 9 January 1993 | 14 December 1993 | 340 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 28 | Sujata Manohar | 15 January 1994 | 20 April 1994 | 96 days | First Female CJ of Bombay Transferred to Kerala as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 29 | Anandamoy Bhattacharjee | 21 April 1994 | 1 April 1995 | 346 days | |
| 30 | Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah | 2 August 1995 | 9 December 1998 | 3 years, 130 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 31 | Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal | 3 February 1999 | 28 January 2000 | 360 days | Later served as 36th Chief Justice of India |
| 32 | Bisheshwar Prasad Singh | 31 March 2000 | 14 December 2001 | 1 year, 259 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 33 | Chunilal Karsandas Thakker | 31 December 2001 | 7 June 2004 | 2 years, 160 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 34 | Dalveer Bhandari | 25 July 2004 | 27 October 2005 | 1 year, 95 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India Later elected to International Court of Justice |
| 35 | Kshitij R. Vyas | 25 February 2006 | 18 July 2006 | 144 days | |
| 36 | Harjit Singh Bedi | 3 October 2006 | 12 January 2007 | 102 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 37 | Swatanter Kumar | 31 March 2007 | 30 December 2009 | 2 years, 275 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 38 | Anil Ramesh Dave | 11 February 2010 | 29 April 2010 | 78 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 39 | Mohit Shantilal Shah | 26 June 2010 | 8 September 2015 | 5 years, 75 days | |
| 40 | Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela | 15 February 2016 | 10 August 2016 | 178 days | |
| 41 | Manjula Chellur | 22 August 2016 | 4 December 2017 | 1 year, 105 days | |
| 42 | Naresh Harishchandra Patil | 29 October 2018 | 6 April 2019 | 160 days | |
| 43 | Pradeep Nandrajog | 7 April 2019 | 23 February 2020 | 323 days | |
| 44 | Bhushan Pradyumna Dharmadhikari | 20 March 2020 | 27 April 2020 | 39 days | |
| 45 | Dipankar Datta | 28 April 2020 | 11 December 2022 | 2 years, 228 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 46 | Ramesh Deokinandan Dhanuka | 28 May 2023 | 30 May 2023 | 3 days | Shortest serving CJ of Bombay |
| 47 | Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya | 29 July 2023 | 20 January 2025 | 1 year, 176 days | Transferred to Delhi as CJ |

## Calcutta High Court

Calcutta High Court was established on 2 July 1862 under Indian High Courts Act 1861 and had 42 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice T. S. Sivagnanam
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| Pre Independence ||||||
| 1 | Barnes Peacock | 1862 | 1870 | | |
| 2 | Richard Couch | 1870 | 1875 | | |
| 3 | Richard Garth | 1875 | 1886 | | |
| 4 | William Comer Petheram | 1886 | 1896 | | |
| 5 | Francis William Maclean | 1886 | 1909 | | |
| 6 | Lawrence Hugh Jenkins | 1909 | 1915 | | |
| 7 | Lancelot Sanderson | 1915 | 1926 | | |
| 8 | George Claus Rankin | 1926 | 1934 | | |
| 9 | Harold Derbyshire | 1934 | 1946 | | |
| 10 | Arthur Trevor Harries | 1946 | 1952 | | During his tenure India got Independence |
| Post Independence ||||||
| 11 | Phani Bhusan Chakravartti | 1952 | 1958 | | |
| 12 | Kulada Charan Das Gupta | 1958 | 23 August 1959 | | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 13 | Surajit Chandra Lahiri | 24 August 1959 | 7 June 1961 | 1 year, 288 days | |
| 14 | Himansu Kumar Bose | 1961 | 1966 | | |
| 15 | Deep Narayan Sinha | 1966 | 1970 | | |
| 16 | Prasanta Bihari Mukharji | 1970 | 1972 | | |
| 17 | Sankar Prasad Mitra | 1972 | 1979 | | Longest serving CJ of Calcutta |
| 18 | Amarendra Nath Sen | 1979 | 1981 | | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 19 | Sambhu Chandra Ghose | 1981 | 1983 | | |
| 20 | Samarendra Chandra Deb | January 1983 | February 1983 | | |
| 21 | Satish Chandra | 1983 | 1986 | | |
| 22 | Anil Kumar Sen | September 1986 | October 1986 | | |
| 23 | Chittatosh Mookerjee | 1 November 1986 | 1 November 1987 | 1 year, 1 day | Transferred to Bombay as CJ |
| 24 | Debi Singh Tewatia | 2 November 1987 | 1988 | | |
| 25 | Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai | 1988 | 6 January 1991 | | Transferred to Bombay as CJ |
| 26 | Nagendra Prasad Singh | 4 February 1992 | 14 June 1992 | 132 days | |
| 27 | Anandamoy Bhattacharjee | 1992 | 20 April 1994 | | Transferred to Bombay as CJ |
| 28 | Krishna Chandra Agarwal | 21 April 1994 | 15 January 1996 | 1 year, 270 days | |
| 29 | Vishweshwar Nath Khare | 2 February 1996 | 20 March 1997 | 1 year, 47 days | Later served as 33rd Chief Justice of India |
| 30 | Prabha Shankar Mishra | 1997 | 5 July 1998 | | |
| 31 | Ashok Kumar Mathur | 22 December 1999 | 6 June 2004 | 4 years, 168 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 32 | V. S. Sirpurkar | 20 March 2005 | 11 January 2007 | 1 year, 298 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 33 | Surinder Singh Nijjar | 8 March 2007 | 16 November 2009 | 2 years, 254 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 34 | Mohit Shantilal Shah | 24 December 2009 | 25 June 2010 | 184 days | Transferred to Bombay as CJ |
| 35 | Jai Narayan Patel | 26 June 2010 | 4 October 2012 | 2 years, 101 days | |
| 36 | Arun Kumar Mishra | 14 December 2012 | 6 July 2014 | 1 year, 205 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 37 | Manjula Chellur | 6 August 2014 | 21 August 2016 | 2 years, 16 days | First Female CJ of Calcutta Transferred to Bombay as CJ |
| 38 | Girish Chandra Gupta | 21 September 2016 | 30 November 2016 | 71 days | |
| 39 | Jyotirmay Bhattacharya | 1 May 2018 | 24 September 2018 | 147 days | |
| 40 | Debasish Kar Gupta | 30 October 2018 | 31 December 2018 | 63 days | |
| 41 | Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan | 4 April 2019 | 28 April 2021 | 2 years, 25 days | |
| 42 | Prakash Shrivastava | 11 October 2021 | 30 March 2023 | 1 year, 171 days | |

## Chhattisgarh High Court

Chhattisgarh High Court was established on 1 November 2000 under Madhya Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 and had 14 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| 1 | Wungazan Awungshi Shishak | 5 December 2000 | 15 January 2002 | 1 year, 42 days | Transferred to Himachal Pradesh as CJ |
| 2 | K.H.N. Kuranga | 6 February 2002 | 10 May 2004 | 2 years, 95 days | |
| 3 | Ayyampalayam Somasundaram Venkatachala Moorthy | 28 May 2004 | 7 January 2005 | 225 days | |
| 4 | Ananga Kumar Patnaik | 14 March 2005 | 1 October 2005 | 202 days | Transferred to Madhya Pradesh as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 5 | Subray Rama Nayak | 17 November 2005 | 31 December 2006 | 1 year, 45 days | |
| 6 | Handyala Lalshminarayanaswamy Dattu | 12 February 2007 | 17 May 2007 | 95 days | Transferred to Kerala as CJ Later served as 42nd Chief Justice of India |
| 7 | Rajeev Gupta | 2 February 2008 | 9 October 2012 | 4 years, 251 days | |
| 8 | Yatindra Singh | 22 October 2012 | 8 October 2014 | 1 year, 352 days | |
| 9 | Navin Sinha | 9 April 2015 | 11 May 2016 | 1 year, 33 days | Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 10 | Deepak Gupta | 16 May 2016 | 16 February 2017 | 277 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 11 | Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan | 18 March 2017 | 6 July 2018 | 1 year, 111 days | Transferred to Telangana as CJ Later Transferred to Calcutta as CJ |
| 12 | Ajay Kumar Tripathi | 7 July 2018 | 26 March 2019 | 263 days | |
| 13 | Parappillil Ramakrishnan Nair Ramachandra Menon | 6 May 2019 | 31 May 2021 | 2 years, 26 days | |
| 14 | Arup Kumar Goswami | 12 October 2021 | 10 March 2023 | 1 year, 150 days | |

## Delhi High Court

Delhi High Court was established on 31 October 1966 under Delhi High Court Act,1966 and had 32 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| 1 | Kowdoor Sadananda Hegde | 31 October 1966 | 16 July 1967 | 259 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 2 | Inder Dev Dua | 14 November 1967 | 1 August 1969 | 1 year, 261 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 3 | Hans Raj Khanna | 2 August 1969 | 22 September 1970 | 1 year, 52 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 4 | Hardayal Hardy | 23 September 1971 | 14 May 1972 | 235 days | |
| 5 | Narain Andley | 15 May 1972 | 3 June 1974 | 2 years, 20 days | |
| 6 | T. V. R. Tatachari | 4 June 1974 | 15 October 1978 | 4 years, 134 days | |
| 7 | Vasant Shamrao Deshpande | 16 October 1978 | 27 March 1980 | 1 year, 164 days | |
| 8 | Prakash Narain | 8 January 1981 | 5 August 1985 | 4 years, 210 days | |
| 9 | Rajinder Sachar | 6 August 1985 | 21 December 1985 | 138 days | |
| 10 | Dalip Kumar Kapur | 22 December 1985 | 19 August 1986 | 241 days | |
| 11 | Tejinder Pal Singh Chawla | 20 August 1986 | 16 August 1987 | 362 days | |
| 12 | Yogeshwar Dayal | 21 August 1987 | 18 March 1988 | 211 days | Transferred to Undivded Andhra Pradesh as CJ |
| 13 | Rabindranth Pyne | 20 May 1987 | 8 October 1990 | 3 years, 142 days | |
| 14 | Milap Chand Jain | 28 November 1990 | 21 July 1991 | 236 days | |
| 15 | Gokal Chand Mittal | 5 August 1991 | 11 April 1994 | 2 years, 250 days | Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ |
| 16 | Mamidanna Jagannadha Rao | 12 April 1994 | 20 March 1997 | 2 years, 343 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 17 | Mahinder Narain | 21 March 1997 | 7 February 1999 | 1 year, 324 days | |
| 18 | Sam Nariman Variava | 25 May 1999 | 14 March 2000 | 295 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 19 | Arijit Pasayat | 10 May 2000 | 18 October 2001 | 1 year, 162 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 20 | Satyabrata Sinha | 26 November 2001 | 30 September 2002 | 309 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 21 | Babulal Chandulal Patel | 5 March 2003 | 7 August 2005 | 2 years, 156 days | |
| 22 | Markandey Katju | 12 October 2005 | 9 April 2006 | 180 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 23 | Mukundakam Sharma | 4 December 2006 | 8 April 2008 | 1 year, 127 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 24 | Ajit Prakash Shah | 11 May 2008 | 12 February 2010 | 1 year, 278 days | |
| 25 | Dipak Misra | 24 May 2010 | 9 October 2011 | 1 year, 139 days | Later served as 45th Chief Justice of India |
| 26 | Darmar Murugesan | 26 September 2012 | 10 June 2013 | 258 days | |
| 27 | Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana | 2 September 2013 | 16 February 2014 | 168 days | Later served as 48th Chief Justice of India |
| 28 | Gorla Rohini | 21 April 2014 | 13 April 2017 | 2 years, 358 days | First Female CJ of Delhi |
| 29 | Rajendra Menon | 9 August 2018 | 6 June 2019 | 302 days | |
| 30 | Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel | 7 June 2019 | 12 March 2022 | 2 years, 279 days | |
| 31 | Satish Chandra Sharma | 28 June 2022 | 8 November 2023 | 1 year, 134 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 32 | Manmohan | 29 September 2024 | 4 December 2024 | 67 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |

## Gauhati High Court

Gauhati High Court was established on 1 March 1948 under Government of India Act 1935 and had 41 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Vijay Bishnoi
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| 1 | Ronald Francis Lodge | 5 April 1948 | 7 April 1949 | 1 year, 3 days | |
| 2 | Thakurdas Vasanmal Thadani | 8 April 1949 | 21 November 1952 | 3 years, 228 days | |
| 3 | Sarjoo Prasad | 10 February 1953 | 20 February 1959 | 6 years, 11 days | Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ |
| 4 | Chandreswar Prasad Sinha | 21 February 1959 | 2 January 1961 | 1 year, 317 days | |
| 5 | Holiram Deka | 3 January 1961 | 29 June 1961 | 178 days | |
| 6 | Gopalji Mehrotra | 30 June 1961 | 6 February 1967 | 5 years, 222 days | |
| 7 | C. S. Row Nayudu | 7 February 1967 | 7 March 1968 | 1 year, 30 days | |
| 8 | S. K. Dutta | 8 March 1968 | 30 January 1970 | 1 year, 329 days | |
| 9 | Parbati Kumar Goswami | 31 January 1970 | 9 October 1973 | 3 years, 252 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 10 | M. C. Pathak | January 1974 | 30 June 1977 | | |
| 11 | M. S. Swami | 1 October 1977 | 5 July 1978 | 278 days | |
| 12 | Chand Mal Lodha | 6 July 1978 | 10 March 1979 | 248 days | Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ |
| 13 | Baharul Islam | 7 July 1979 | 1 March 1980 | 239 days | Later elevated to Supreme Court of India on 4 December 1980 nearly 10 months after retirement |
| 14 | Dambarudhar Pathak | 18 April 1983 | 8 August 1983 | 113 days | Served as Acting Chief Justice for more than 3 years from 2 March 1980 to 17 April 1983 before being elevated as Chief Justice Transferred to Odisha as CJ |
| 15 | T. S. Misra | 12 August 1983 | 14 November 1984 | 1 year, 95 days | |
| 16 | P. C. Reddy | 30 September 1985 | 2 November 1986 | 1 year, 34 days | |
| 17 | K. M. Lahiri | 3 November 1986 | 19 December 1986 | 47 days | |
| 18 | K. N. Saika | 13 June 1987 | 1 March 1988 | 263 days | Later elevated to Supreme Court of India on 14 December 1988 nearly 10 months after retirement |
| 19 | Guman Mal Lodha | 2 March 1988 | 15 March 1988 | 14 days | |
| 20 | A. S. Raghuvir | 6 May 1988 | 21 March 1991 | 2 years, 320 days | |
| 21 | Ullal Lakshminarayana Bhat | 20 August 1991 | 15 December 1993 | 2 years, 118 days | Transferred to Madhya Pradesh as CJ |
| 22 | R. K. Manisana Singh | 27 January 1994 | 1 February 1994 | 6 days | |
| 23 | Viney Krishna Khanna | 24 April 1994 | 14 February 1997 | 2 years, 297 days | |
| 24 | M. Ramakrishna | 18 June 1997 | 12 April 1998 | 299 days | |
| 25 | Brijesh Kumar | 12 February 1999 | 18 October 2000 | 1 year, 250 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 26 | N. C. Jain | 19 October 2000 | 5 April 2001 | 169 days | |
| 27 | Ravinder Singh Mongia | 21 September 2001 | 9 June 2002 | 262 days | |
| 28 | P. P. Naolekar | 10 June 2002 | 28 July 2004 | 2 years, 49 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 29 | Binod Kumar Roy | 21 May 2005 | 29 September 2005 | 132 days | Transferred to Sikkim as CJ |
| 30 | B. Sudarshan Reddy | 5 December 2005 | 11 January 2007 | 1 year, 38 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 31 | Jasti Chelameswar | 3 May 2007 | 16 March 2010 | 2 years, 318 days | Transferred to Kerala as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 32 | Ramesh Surajmal Garg | 17 April 2010 | 18 June 2010 | 63 days | |
| 33 | Madan Lokur | 24 June 2010 | 14 November 2011 | 1 year, 145 days | Transferred to Undivded Andhra Pradesh as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 34 | Adarsh Kumar Goel | 20 December 2011 | 10 October 2013 | 1 year, 295 days | Transferred to Odisha as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 35 | Abhay Manohar Sapre | 19 October 2013 | 12 August 2014 | 298 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 36 | Ajit Singh | 5 March 2016 | 5 September 2018 | 2 years, 185 days | |
| 37 | Ajjikuttira Somaiah Bopanna | 29 October 2018 | 23 May 2019 | 207 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 38 | Ajai Lamba | 7 October 2019 | 20 September 2020 | 350 days | |
| 39 | Sudhanshu Dhulia | 10 January 2021 | 8 May 2022 | 1 year, 119 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 40 | Rashmin Manharbhai Chhaya | 23 June 2022 | 11 January 2023 | 203 days | |
| 41 | Sandeep Mehta | 15 February 2023 | 8 November 2023 | 267 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |

## Gujarat High Court

Gujarat High Court was established on 1 May 1960 under Bombay Reorganisation Act,1960 and had 27 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| 1 | Sunderlal Trikamlal Desai | 1 May 1960 | 25 January 1961 | 270 days | |
| 2 | Kantilal Thakoredas Desai | 26 January 1961 | 22 May 1963 | 2 years, 117 days | |
| 3 | Jaishanker Manilal Shelat | 31 May 1963 | 24 February 1966 | 2 years, 270 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 4 | Nomanbhai Mahmedbhai Miabhoy | 21 April 1966 | 5 September 1967 | 1 year, 138 days | |
| 5 | Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati | 16 September 1967 | 17 July 1973 | 5 years, 305 days | Later served as 17th Chief Justice of India |
| 6 | Bipinchandra Jivanlal Diwan | 18 July 1973 | 30 June 1976 | 2 years, 349 days | Transferred to Undivded Andhra Pradesh as CJ Later again transferred to Gujarat |
| 7 | Seshareddi Obul Reddy | 7 July 1976 | 18 August 1977 | 1 year, 43 days | Transferred to Undivded Andhra Pradesh as CJ |
| (6) | Bipinchandra Jivanlal Diwan | 28 August 1977 | 19 August 1981 | 3 years, 357 days | Retransferred to Gujarat High Court as Chief Justice with effect from 28 August 1977. |
| 8 | Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar | 20 August 1981 | 14 March 1983 | 1 year, 207 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 9 | Padmanabham Subramanian Poti | 28 September 1983 | 1 February 1985 | 1 year, 127 days | |
| 10 | Puliyangudi Ramaiyapillai Gokulakrishnan | 21 March 1985 | 12 August 1990 | 5 years, 145 days | |
| 11 | Ganendra Narayan Ray | 2 December 1990 | 6 November 1991 | 340 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 12 | Sundaram Nainar Sundaram | 15 June 1992 | 13 December 1993 | 1 year, 182 days | |
| 13 | Bhupinder Nath Kirpal | 14 December 1993 | 10 September 1995 | 1 year, 271 days | Later served as 31st Chief Justice of India |
| 14 | Gurudas Datta Kamat | 2 July 1996 | 4 January 1997 | 187 days | |
| 15 | Kumaran Sreedharan | 20 October 1997 | 3 June 1998 | 227 days | |
| 16 | Konakuppakattil Gopinathan Balakrishnan | 16 July 1998 | 8 September 1999 | 1 year, 55 days | Transferred to Madras as CJ Later served as 37th Chief Justice of India |
| 17 | D. M. Dharmadhikari | 25 January 2000 | 4 March 2002 | 2 years, 39 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 18 | Daya Saran Sinha | 17 March 2002 | 18 March 2003 | 1 year, 2 days | |
| 19 | Bhawani Singh | 25 August 2003 | 28 March 2006 | 2 years, 216 days | |
| 20 | Y. R. Meena | 3 February 2007 | 30 June 2008 | 1 year, 149 days | |
| 21 | K S Panicker Radhakrishnan | 4 September 2008 | 16 November 2009 | 1 year, 74 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 22 | S J Mukhopadhaya | 9 December 2009 | 12 September 2011 | 1 year, 278 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 23 | Bhaskar Bhattacharya | 21 July 2012 | 28 September 2014 | 2 years, 70 days | |
| 24 | R. Subhash Reddy | 13 February 2016 | 1 November 2018 | 2 years, 262 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 25 | Vikram Nath | 10 September 2019 | 30 August 2021 | 1 year, 355 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 26 | Aravind Kumar | 13 October 2021 | 12 February 2023 | 1 year, 123 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 27 | Sonia Giridhar Gokani | 16 February 2023 | 25 February 2023 | 10 days | First Female CJ of Gujarat |

## Himachal Pradesh High Court

Himachal Pradesh High Court was established on 25 January 1971 under State of Himachal Pradesh Act, 1970 and had 29 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| 1 | Mirza Hameedullah Beg | 25 January 1971 | 9 December 1971 | 319 days | Later served as 15th Chief Justice of India |
| 2 | Raghunandan Swarup Pathak | 18 March 1972 | 19 February 1978 | 5 years, 339 days | Later served as 18th Chief Justice of India Then later elected to International Court of Justice |
| 3 | Tryambkalal Umedchand Mehta | 25 July 1978 | 11 December 1979 | 1 year, 140 days | |
| 4 | Vyas Dev Misra | 12 December 1979 | 30 September 1983 | 3 years, 293 days | |
| 5 | Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai | 23 December 1983 | 13 November 1988 | 4 years, 327 days | Transferred to Calcutta as CJ Later transferred to Bombay as CJ |
| 6 | Narendra Mohan Kasliwal | 29 March 1989 | 5 October 1989 | 191 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 7 | Perumbulavil Chakkala Valappil Balakrishna Menon | 6 November 1989 | 14 January 1991 | 1 year, 70 days | |
| 8 | Leila Seth | 5 August 1991 | 19 October 1992 | 1 year, 76 days | First Female CJ of Himachal Pradesh |
| 9 | Shashi Kant Seth | 22 June 1993 | 27 August 1993 | 67 days | |
| 10 | Viswanathan Ratnam | 29 January 1994 | 31 July 1994 | 184 days | |
| 11 | Gulab Chand Gupta | 17 September 1994 | 28 February 1995 | 165 days | |
| 12 | Sailendu Nath Phukan | 1 March 1995 | 1 August 1996 | 1 year, 154 days | Transferred to Odisha as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 13 | Madhavachari Srinivasan | 12 August 1996 | 24 September 1997 | 1 year, 44 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 14 | Makani Narayana Rao | 6 November 1997 | 21 April 1998 | 167 days | |
| 15 | Doraiswamy Raju | 1 July 1998 | 27 January 2000 | 1 year, 211 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 16 | Chunilal Karsandas Thakker | 5 May 2000 | 30 December 2001 | 1 year, 240 days | Transferred to Bombay as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 17 | Wungazan Awungshi Shishak | 24 January 2002 | 31 December 2002 | 342 days | |
| 18 | Vinod Kumar Gupta | 8 March 2003 | 1 February 2008 | 4 years, 331 days | Transferred to Uttarakhand as CJ |
| 19 | Jagadish Bhalla | 2 February 2008 | 9 August 2009 | 1 year, 189 days | Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ |
| 20 | Kurian Joseph | 8 February 2010 | 6 March 2013 | 3 years, 27 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 21 | Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar | 4 April 2013 | 23 November 2013 | 234 days | Transferred to Madhya Pradesh as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 22 | Mansoor Ahmad Mir | 18 June 2014 | 24 April 2017 | 2 years, 311 days | |
| 23 | Surya Kant | 5 October 2018 | 23 May 2019 | 231 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 24 | V. Ramasubramanian | 22 June 2019 | 22 September 2019 | 93 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 25 | Lingappa Narayana Swamy | 6 October 2019 | 29 June 2021 | 1 year, 267 days | |
| 26 | Mohammad Rafiq | 14 October 2021 | 20 May 2022 | 130 days | |
| 27 | Amjad Ahtesham Sayed | 23 June 2022 | 20 January 2023 | 212 days | |
| 28 | Mamidanna Satyratna Ramachandra Rao | 30 May 2023 | 24 September 2024 | 1 year, 118 days | Transferred to Jharkhand as CJ |
| 29 | Rajiv Shakdher | 25 September 2024 | 18 October 2024 | 24 days | |

## Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court

Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court was established on 26 March 1928 under Letters Patent issued by then Maharaja of Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019 and had 36 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Tashi Rabstan
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| Pre Independence ||||||
| 1 | Kanwar Sain | 27 April 1928 | 15 February 1931 | 2 years, 295 days | |
| 2 | Birjor Dalal | 16 February 1931 | 23 November 1936 | 5 years, 282 days | |
| 3 | Abdul Qayoom | 24 November 1936 | 20 July 1940 | 3 years, 240 days | |
| 4 | Rachpal Singh | 13 August 1940 | 6 March 1942 | 1 year, 206 days | |
| 5 | Ganga Nath | 24 June 1942 | 23 October 1945 | 3 years, 122 days | |
| 6 | S.K. Ghose | 29 March 1946 | 29 March 1948 | 2 years, 1 day | During his tenure India got Independence |
| Post Independence ||||||
| 7 | Janki Nath Wazir | 30 March 1948 | 2 December 1967 | 19 years, 248 days | Longest serving CJ of Jammu - Kashmir |
| 8 | Syed Murtaza Fazl Ali | 3 December 1967 | 1 April 1975 | 7 years, 120 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 9 | Raja Jaswant Singh | 2 April 1975 | 22 January 1976 | 296 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 10 | M.R.A. Ansari | 23 January 1976 | 8 November 1977 | 1 year, 290 days | |
| 11 | Mian Jalal-ud-Din | 15 February 1978 | 22 February 1980 | 2 years, 8 days | |
| 12 | Mufti Baha-ud-Din | 7 March 1983 | 23 August 1983 | 170 days | |
| 13 | Vazhakkul Angarayil Khalid | 24 August 1983 | 24 June 1984 | 306 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 14 | Adarsh Sein Anand | 11 May 1985 | 23 October 1989 | 4 years, 166 days | Transferred to Madras as CJ Later served as 29th Chief Justice of India |
| 15 | S.S. Kang | 24 October 1989 | 14 May 1993 | 3 years, 203 days | |
| 16 | S.C. Mathur | 10 October 1993 | 17 March 1994 | 159 days | |
| 17 | Saiyed Sagir Ahmed | 18 March 1994 | 22 September 1994 | 189 days | Transferred to Undivded Andhra Pradesh as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 18 | M. Ramakrishna | 10 October 1994 | 15 June 1997 | 2 years, 249 days | Transferred to Gauhati as CJ |
| 19 | Bhawani Singh | 16 June 1997 | 20 February 2000 | 2 years, 250 days | Transferred to Madhya Pradesh as CJ Later transferred to Gujarat as CJ |
| 20 | B.P. Saraf | 21 February 2000 | 22 August 2001 | 1 year, 183 days | |
| 21 | H. K. Sema | 12 September 2001 | 4 March 2002 | 174 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 22 | Babulal Chandulal Patel | 15 May 2002 | 4 March 2003 | 294 days | Transferred to Delhi as CJ |
| 23 | Sachchidanand Jha | 4 February 2004 | 11 October 2005 | 1 year, 250 days | Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ |
| 24 | Bashir Ahmed Khan | 25 January 2007 | 31 March 2007 | 66 days | |
| 25 | K S Panicker Radhakrishnan | 7 January 2008 | 28 August 2008 | 235 days | Transferred to Gujarat as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 26 | Manmohan Sarin | 4 September 2008 | 19 October 2008 | 46 days | |
| 27 | Barin Ghosh | 3 January 2009 | 12 April 2010 | 1 year, 100 days | Transferred to Sikkim as CJ Later transferred to Uttarakhand as CJ |
| 28 | Aftab Hussain Saikia | 13 April 2010 | 6 April 2011 | 359 days | |
| 29 | Fakir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla | 7 April 2011 | 1 April 2012 | 361 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 30 | Mahesh Mittal Kumar | 9 June 2012 | 4 January 2015 | 2 years, 210 days | |
| 31 | N. Paul Vasanthakumar | 2 February 2015 | 14 March 2017 | 2 years, 41 days | |
| 32 | Badar Durrez Ahmed | 1 April 2017 | 15 March 2018 | 349 days | |
| 33 | Gita Mittal | 11 August 2018 | 8 December 2020 | 2 years, 120 days | First Female of CJ of Jammu - Kashmir |
| 34 | Pankaj Mithal | 4 January 2021 | 11 October 2022 | 1 year, 281 days | Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 35 | Ali Mohammad Magrey | 13 October 2022 | 7 December 2022 | 56 days | |
| 36 | Nongmeikapam Kotiswar Singh | 15 February 2023 | 17 July 2024 | 1 year, 154 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |

## Jharkhand High Court

Jharkhand High Court was established on 15 November 2000 under Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 and had 15 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Mamidanna Satyaratna Ramachandra Rao
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| 1 | Vinod Kumar Gupta | 5 December 2000 | 4 March 2003 | 2 years, 90 days | Transferred to Himachal Pradesh as CJ Later transferred to Uttarakhand as CJ |
| 2 | Perubhemba Krishna Ayer Balasubramanyan | 10 March 2003 | 26 August 2004 | 1 year, 170 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 3 | Altamas Kabir | 1 March 2005 | 8 September 2005 | 192 days | Later served as 39th Chief Justice of India |
| 4 | Nelavoy Dhinakar | 4 December 2005 | 9 June 2006 | 188 days | |
| 5 | M. Karpaga Vinayagam | 17 September 2006 | 15 May 2008 | 1 year, 242 days | |
| 6 | Gyan Sudha Misra | 13 July 2008 | 30 April 2010 | 1 year, 292 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 7 | Bhagwati Prasad | 22 August 2010 | 12 May 2011 | 264 days | |
| 8 | Prakash Chandra Tatia | 11 September 2011 | 3 August 2013 | 1 year, 327 days | |
| 9 | R. Banumathi | 16 November 2013 | 12 August 2014 | 270 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 10 | Virender Singh | 1 November 2014 | 6 October 2016 | 1 year, 341 days | |
| 11 | Pradip Kumar Mohanty | 24 March 2017 | 9 June 2017 | 78 days | |
| 12 | Aniruddha Bose | 11 August 2018 | 23 May 2019 | 286 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 13 | Ravi Ranjan | 17 November 2019 | 19 December 2022 | 3 years, 33 days | |
| 14 | Sanjaya Kumar Mishra | 20 February 2023 | 28 December 2023 | 312 days | |
| 15 | Bidyut Ranjan Sarangi | 5 July 2024 | 19 July 2024 | 15 days | |

## Karnataka High Court

Karnataka High Court was established in 1884 under Mysore High Court Act, 1884 and had 33 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Nilay Vipinchandra Anjaria
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| 1 | R. Venkataramaiah | 1 November 1956 | 16 July 1957 | 258 days | |
| 2 | S. R. Das Gupta | 25 July 1957 | 13 August 1961 | 4 years, 20 days | |
| 3 | Nittoor Srinivasa Rau | 29 March 1962 | 7 August 1963 | 1 year, 132 days | |
| 4 | A. R. Somanath Iyer | 23 November 1969 | 29 December 1969 | 37 days | |
| 5 | M. Sadasivayya | 30 December 1969 | 16 September 1970 | 261 days | |
| 6 | A. Narayana Pai | 17 September 1970 | 6 June 1973 | 2 years, 263 days | |
| 7 | G. K. Govinda Bhat | 7 June 1973 | 14 December 1977 | 4 years, 191 days | |
| 8 | D. M. Chandrashekar | 22 March 1978 | 25 September 1982 | 4 years, 188 days | |
| 9 | K. Bhimaiah | 28 October 1982 | 10 April 1983 | 165 days | |
| 10 | V. S. Malimath | 6 February 1984 | 24 October 1985 | 1 year, 261 days | Transferred to Kerala as CJ |
| 11 | Prem Chand Jain | 28 August 1986 | 16 September 1989 | 3 years, 20 days | |
| 12 | Shanmughasundaram Mohan | 26 October 1989 | 7 October 1991 | 1 year, 347 days | Transferred to Madras as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 13 | Sam Piroj Bharucha | 1 November 1991 | 30 June 1992 | 243 days | Later served as 30th Chief Justice of India |
| 14 | S. B. Majumdar | 2 July 1993 | 13 September 1994 | 1 year, 74 days | |
| 15 | Girish Thakorlal Nanavati | 28 September 1994 | 4 March 1995 | 158 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 16 | M. L. Pendse | 28 July 1995 | 25 March 1996 | 242 days | |
| 17 | S. A. Hakeem | 3 May 1996 | 9 May 1996 | 7 days | |
| 18 | Ram Prakash Sethi | 29 June 1996 | 6 January 1999 | 2 years, 192 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 19 | Y. Bhaskar Rao | 9 March 1999 | 26 June 2000 | 1 year, 110 days | |
| 20 | P. Venkatarama Reddi | 21 October 2000 | 16 August 2001 | 300 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 21 | Nagendra Kumar Jain | 31 August 2001 | 20 October 2004 | 3 years, 51 days | |
| 22 | Navudip Kumar Sodhi | 19 November 2004 | 29 November 2005 | 1 year, 11 days | |
| 23 | Cyriac Joseph | 7 January 2006 | 6 July 2008 | 2 years, 182 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 24 | Paul Daniel Dinakaran Premkumar | 8 August 2008 | 7 August 2010 | 2 years, 0 days | Transferred to Sikkim as CJ |
| 25 | Jagdish Singh Khehar | 8 August 2010 | 12 September 2011 | 1 year, 36 days | Later served as 44th Chief Justice of India |
| 26 | Vikramajit Sen | 24 December 2011 | 24 December 2012 | 1 year, 1 day | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 27 | Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela | 7 March 2013 | 1 June 2015 | 2 years, 87 days | |
| 28 | Subhro Kamal Mukherjee | 23 February 2016 | 9 October 2017 | 1 year, 229 days | |
| 29 | Dinesh Maheshwari | 12 February 2018 | 17 January 2019 | 340 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 30 | Abhay Shreeniwas Oka | 10 May 2019 | 30 August 2021 | 2 years, 113 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 31 | Ritu Raj Awasthi | 11 October 2021 | 2 July 2022 | 265 days | |
| 32 | Prasanna Bhalachandra Varale | 15 October 2022 | 24 January 2024 | 1 year, 102 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 33 | P. S. Dinesh Kumar | 3 February 2024 | 24 February 2024 | 22 days | |

## Kerala High Court

Kerala High Court was established on 1 November 1956 under States Reorganisation Act, 1956 and had 38 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Nitin Madhukar Jamdar
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| 1 | K. T. Koshi | 1 November 1956 | | | |
| 2 | K. Sankaran | | 29 March 1960 | | |
| 3 | Mohammed Ahmed Ansari | 30 March 1960 | 26 November 1961 | 1 year, 242 days | |
| 4 | M. S. Menon | | | | |
| 5 | P. T. Raman Nair | | | | |
| 6 | T. C. Raghavan | | | | |
| 7 | P. Govindan Nair | | | | |
| 8 | V. P. Gopalan Nambiyar | | | | |
| 9 | V. Balakrishna Eradi | 19 January 1980 | 30 January 1981 | 1 year, 12 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 10 | Padmanabhan Subramanian Poti | June 1983 | 27 September 1983 | | Transferred to Gujarat as CJ |
| 11 | K. Bhaskaran | | | | |
| 12 | V. S. Malimath | 25 October 1985 | 11 June 1991 | 5 years, 230 days | |
| 13 | M. Jagannadha Rao | 8 August 1991 | 11 April 1994 | 2 years, 247 days | Transferred to Delhi as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 14 | Sujata V. Manohar | 21 April 1994 | 7 November 1994 | 201 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 15 | M. M. Pareed Pillay | 3 January 1995 | 17 September 1995 | 258 days | |
| 16 | U. P. Singh | 13 July 1996 | 19 December 1997 | 1 year, 160 days | |
| 17 | Om Prakash Verma | 20 December 1997 | 19 March 1999 | 1 year, 90 days | |
| 18 | Arijit Pasayat | 20 September 1999 | 9 May 2000 | 233 days | Transferred to Delhi as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 19 | Arvind Vinayakarao Savant | | | | |
| 20 | K.K. Usha | 2000 | 3 July 2001 | | |
| 21 | B. N. Srikrishna | 6 September 2001 | 2 October 2002 | 1 year, 27 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 22 | Jawahar Lal Gupta | 1 November 2002 | 21 January 2004 | 1 year, 82 days | |
| 23 | Navudip Kumar Sodhi | 5 April 2004 | 18 November 2004 | 228 days | Transferred to Karnataka as CJ |
| 24 | B. Subhashan Reddy | 21 November 2004 | 2 March 2005 | 102 days | |
| 25 | Rajeev Gupta | 27 April 2005 | 13 January 2006 | 262 days | Transferred to Uttarakhand as CJ Later transferred to Chhattisgarh as CJ |
| 26 | Vinod Kumar Bali | 22 January 2006 | 24 January 2007 | 1 year, 3 days | |
| 27 | Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu | 18 May 2007 | 16 December 2008 | 262 days | Later served as 42nd Chief Justice of India |
| 28 | S. R. Bannurmath | March 2009 | 22 January 2010 | | |
| 29 | Jasti Chelameswar | 17 March 2010 | 9 October 2011 | 1 year, 207 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 30 | Manjula Chellur | 26 September 2012 | 1 August 2014 | 1 year, 310 days | Transferred to Calcutta as CJ |
| 31 | Ashok Bhushan | 26 March 2015 | 12 May 2016 | 1 year, 48 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 32 | Mohan Shantanagoudar | 22 September 2016 | 16 February 2017 | 148 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 33 | Navniti Prasad Singh | 20 March 2017 | 6 November 2017 | 232 days | |
| 34 | Antony Dominic | 6 February 2018 | 30 May 2018 | 114 days | |
| 35 | Hrishikesh Roy | 8 August 2018 | 21 September 2019 | 1 year, 45 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 36 | S. Manikumar | 11 October 2019 | 24 April 2023 | 3 years, 196 days | |
| 37 | Sarasa Venkatanarayana Bhatti | 1 June 2023 | 14 July 2023 | 44 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 38 | Ashish Jitendra Desai | 22 July 2023 | 5 July 2024 | 350 days | |

## Madhya Pradesh High Court

Madhya Pradesh High Court was established on 2 January 1936 under Government of India Act 1935 and had 27 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Suresh Kumar Kait
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| 1 | Mohammad Hidayatullah | 1 November 1956 | 30 November 1958 | 2 years, 30 days | Later served as 11th Chief Justice of India |
| 2 | Ganesh Prasad Dutt | 13 December 1958 | 12 September 1959 | 274 days | |
| 3 | Purushottam Vinayak Dixit | 22 September 1959 | 18 March 1969 | 9 years, 178 days | |
| 4 | Bishambhar Dayal | 19 March 1969 | 13 September 1972 | 3 years, 179 days | |
| 5 | Prabhakar Keshava Tare | 14 September 1972 | 10 October 1975 | 3 years, 27 days | |
| 6 | Shivdayal Shrivastava | 11 October 1975 | 27 February 1978 | 2 years, 140 days | |
| 7 | Ananda Prakash Sen | 28 February 1978 | 16 July 1978 | 139 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 8 | Guru Prasanna Singh | 27 July 1978 | 3 January 1984 | 5 years, 161 days | |
| 9 | Goverdhan Lal Oza | 1 December 1984 | 28 October 1985 | 332 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 10 | Jagdish Sharan Verma | 14 June 1986 | 31 August 1986 | 79 days | Transferred to Rajasthan as CJ Later served as 27th Chief Justice of India |
| 11 | Narayan Dutt Ojha | 8 January 1987 | 17 January 1988 | 1 year, 10 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 12 | Gangadhar Ganesh Sohani | 20 October 1989 | 23 October 1989 | 4 days | Transferred to Patna as CJ |
| 13 | Sushil Kumar Jha | 27 October 1989 | 15 December 1993 | 4 years, 50 days | |
| 14 | Ullal Lakshminarayana Bhat | 15 December 1993 | 13 October 1995 | 1 year, 303 days | |
| 15 | Ashok Kumar Mathur | 3 February 1996 | 21 December 1999 | 3 years, 322 days | Transferred to Calcutta as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 16 | Bhawani Singh | 24 February 2000 | 24 August 2003 | 3 years, 182 days | Transferred to Gujarat as CJ |
| 17 | Kumar Rajarathnam | 6 September 2003 | 12 March 2004 | 189 days | |
| 18 | Raju Varadarajulu Raveendran | 8 July 2004 | 8 September 2005 | 1 year, 63 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 19 | Ananga Kumar Patnaik | 2 October 2005 | 16 November 2009 | 4 years, 46 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 20 | Syed Rafat Alam | 20 December 2009 | 4 August 2011 | 1 year, 228 days | Transferred to Allahabad as CJ |
| 21 | Sharad Arvind Bobde | 16 October 2012 | 11 April 2013 | 178 days | Later served as 47th Chief Justice of India |
| 22 | Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar | 24 November 2013 | 12 May 2016 | 2 years, 171 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 23 | Hemant Gupta | 18 March 2017 | 1 November 2018 | 1 year, 229 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 24 | Sanjay Kumar Seth | 14 November 2018 | 9 June 2019 | 208 days | |
| 25 | Ajay Kumar Mittal | 3 November 2019 | 29 September 2020 | 332 days | |
| 26 | Mohammad Rafiq | 3 January 2021 | 13 October 2021 | 284 days | Transferred to Himachal Pradesh as CJ |
| 27 | Ravi Malimath | 14 October 2021 | 24 May 2024 | 2 years, 224 days | |

## Madras High Court

Madras High Court was established on 26 June 1862 under Indian High Courts Act 1861 and had 44 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Kalpathi Rajendran Shriram
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| Pre Independence ||||||
| 1 | Colley Harman Scotland | 1861 | 1871 | | |
| 2 | Walter Morgan | 1871 | 1879 | | |
| 3 | Charles Arthur Turner | 1879 | 1885 | | |
| 4 | Arthur John Hammond Collins | 1885 | 1899 | | |
| 5 | Charles Arnold White | 1899 | 1914 | | |
| 6 | John Edward Power Wallis | 1914 | 1921 | | |
| 7 | Walter George Salis Schwabe | 1921 | 1924 | | |
| 8 | Murray Coutts-Trotter | 3 June 1924 | 1929 | | |
| 9 | Horace Owen Compton Beasley | 1929 | 1937 | | |
| 10 | Alfred Henry Lionel Leach | 1937 | 1947 | | |
| Post Independence ||||||
| 11 | Fredrick William Gentle | 1947 | 1948 | | |
| 12 | Pakala Venkata Rajamannar | 20 April 1948 | 9 May 1961 | 13 years, 20 days | |
| 13 | Subramanya Ramachandra Iyer | 16 September 1961 | 1 November 1964 | 3 years, 47 days | |
| 14 | Palagani Chandra Reddy | 15 February 1965 | 30 June 1966 | 1 year, 136 days | |
| 15 | Madavayya Anantanarayanan | 1 July 1966 | 30 April 1969 | 2 years, 304 days | |
| 16 | Kuppuswami Naidu Veeraswami | 1 May 1969 | 11 March 1976 | 6 years, 316 days | |
| 17 | Palapatti Sadaya Goundar Kailasam | 8 April 1976 | 2 January 1977 | 270 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 18 | Padmanbhapillay Govindan Nair | 3 January 1977 | 28 May 1978 | 1 year, 146 days | |
| 19 | Tayi Ramaprasada Rao | 29 May 1978 | 5 November 1979 | 1 year, 161 days | |
| 20 | Muhammad Kassim Muhammad Ismail | 6 November 1979 | 9 July 1981 | 1 year, 246 days | |
| 21 | Krishna Ballabh Narayan Singh | 12 March 1982 | 24 January 1984 | 1 year, 319 days | |
| 22 | Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar | 2 April 1984 | 13 March 1988 | 3 years, 347 days | |
| 23 | Shanmughasundaram Mohan | 19 October 1989 | 24 October 1989 | 6 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 24 | Adarsh Sein Anand | 1 November 1989 | 17 November 1991 | 1 year, 78 days | Later served as 29th Chief Justice of India |
| 25 | Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar | 15 June 1992 | 14 November 1992 | 153 days | First Female of CJ of Madras |
| 26 | Kudarikoti Annadanayya Swamy | 1 July 1993 | 19 March 1997 | 3 years, 262 days | |
| 27 | Manmohan Singh Liberhan | 1 July 1997 | 27 December 1998 | 1 year, 180 days | Transferred to Undivded Andhra Pradesh as CJ |
| 28 | Ashok Chhotelal Agarwal | 24 May 1999 | 26 August 1999 | 95 days | |
| 29 | Konakuppakattil Gopinathan Balakrishnan | 9 September 1999 | 5 June 2000 | 271 days | Later served as 37th Chief Justice of India |
| 30 | Nagendra Kumar Jain | 13 September 2000 | 30 August 2001 | 352 days | Transferred to Karnataka as CJ |
| 31 | B. Subhashan Reddy | 12 September 2001 | 20 November 2004 | 3 years, 70 days | Transferred to Kerala as CJ |
| 32 | Markandey Katju | 28 November 2004 | 10 October 2005 | 317 days | Transferred to Delhi as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 33 | Ajit Prakash Shah | 12 November 2005 | 9 May 2008 | 2 years, 180 days | Transferred to Delhi as CJ |
| 34 | Asok Kumar Ganguly | 19 May 2008 | 15 December 2008 | 211 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 35 | Hemant Laxman Gokhale | 9 March 2009 | 28 April 2010 | 1 year, 51 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 36 | M. Y. Eqbal | 11 June 2010 | 21 December 2012 | 2 years, 194 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 37 | Rajesh Kumar Agrawal | 24 October 2013 | 16 February 2014 | 116 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 38 | Sanjay Kishan Kaul | 26 July 2014 | 16 February 2017 | 2 years, 206 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 39 | Indira Banerjee | 5 April 2017 | 6 August 2018 | 1 year, 124 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 40 | Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani | 12 August 2018 | 6 September 2019 | 1 year, 26 days | |
| 41 | Amreshwar Pratap Sahi | 11 November 2019 | 31 December 2020 | 1 year, 51 days | |
| 42 | Sanjib Banerjee | 4 January 2021 | 16 November 2021 | 317 days | Transferred to Meghalaya as CJ |
| 43 | Munishwar Nath Bhandari | 14 February 2022 | 12 September 2022 | 211 days | |
| 44 | Sanjay Vijaykumar Gangapurwala | 28 May 2023 | 23 May 2024 | 362 days | |

## Manipur High Court

Manipur High Court was established on 25 March 2013 under North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2012 and had 7 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice D. Krishnakumar
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| 1 | Abhay Manohar Sapre | 23 March 2013 | 18 October 2013 | 231 days | Transferred to Gauhati as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 2 | Laxmi Kanta Mohapatra | 10 July 2014 | 9 June 2016 | 1 year, 336 days | |
| 3 | Rakesh Ranjan Prasad | 22 September 2016 | 30 June 2017 | 282 days | |
| 4 | Abhilasha Kumari | 9 February 2018 | 23 February 2018 | 15 days | |
| 5 | Ramalingam Sudhakar | 18 May 2018 | 13 February 2021 | 2 years, 272 days | |
| 6 | Puligoru Venkata Sanjay Kumar | 14 February 2021 | 5 February 2023 | 1 year, 357 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 7 | Siddharth Mridul | 20 October 2023 | 21 November 2024 | 1 year, 33 days | |

## Meghalaya High Court

Meghalaya High Court was established on 23 March 2013 under North-Eastern Areas (Reorganisation) and Other Related Laws (Amendment) Act, 2012 and had 12 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Indra Prasanna Mukerji
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| 1 | T. Meena Kumari | 23 March 2013 | 3 August 2013 | 134 days | |
| 2 | Prafulla Chandra Pant | 20 September 2013 | 12 August 2014 | 327 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 3 | Uma Nath Singh | 19 March 2015 | 14 January 2016 | 302 days | |
| 4 | Dinesh Maheshwari | 24 February 2016 | 11 February 2018 | 1 year, 356 days | Transferred to Karnataka as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 5 | Tarun Agarwala | 12 February 2018 | 2 March 2018 | 19 days | |
| 6 | Mohammad Yaqoob Mir | 21 May 2018 | 27 May 2019 | 1 year, 7 days | |
| 7 | Ajay Kumar Mittal | 28 February 2019 | 31 October 2019 | 157 days | Transferred to Madhya Pradesh as CJ |
| 8 | Mohammad Rafiq | 13 November 2019 | 26 April 2020 | 166 days | Transferred to Orissa as CJ Later transferred to Madhya Pradesh as CJ Later again transferred to Himachal Pradesh as CJ |
| 9 | Biswanath Somadder | 27 April 2020 | 11 October 2021 | 1 year, 168 days | Transferred to Sikkim as CJ |
| 10 | Ranjit Vasantrao More | 12 October 2021 | 3 November 2021 | 23 days | |
| 11 | Sanjib Banerjee | 24 November 2021 | 1 November 2023 | 1 year, 343 days | |
| 12 | S. Vaidyanathan | 11 February 2024 | 16 August 2024 | 188 days | |

## Orissa High Court

Orissa High Court was established on 3 April 1948 under Orissa High Court Ordinance, 1948 and had 34 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Arindam Sinha (Acting)
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| 1 | Bira Kishore Ray | 26 July 1948 | 30 October 1951 | 3 years, 97 days | |
| 2 | Bachu Jagannadha Das | 31 October 1951 | 3 March 1953 | 1 year, 124 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 3 | Lingaraj Panigrahi | 4 March 1953 | 21 March 1956 | 3 years, 18 days | |
| 4 | Ramaswamy Laxman Narasimham | 22 March 1956 | 27 December 1964 | 8 years, 281 days | |
| 5 | Khaleel Ahmed | 18 January 1965 | 5 April 1967 | 2 years, 78 days | |
| 6 | Satya Bhusan Barman | 6 April 1967 | 30 April 1969 | 2 years, 25 days | |
| 7 | Gati Krushna Misra | 1 May 1969 | 30 October 1970 | 6 years, 183 days | |
| 8 | Siba Narain Sankar | 1 November 1975 | 12 October 1977 | 1 year, 346 days | |
| 9 | Sukanta Kishore Ray | 13 October 1977 | 4 November 1980 | 3 years, 23 days | |
| 10 | Ranganath Mishra | 16 January 1981 | 14 March 1983 | 2 years, 58 days | Later served as 21st Chief Justice of India |
| 11 | Dambarudhar Pathak | 11 August 1983 | 28 February 1986 | 2 years, 202 days | |
| 12 | Hari Lal Agrawal | 1 May 1986 | 31 July 1989 | 3 years, 92 days | |
| 13 | Banwari Lal Hansaria | 22 February 1990 | 13 December 1993 | 3 years, 295 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 14 | Girish Thakorlal Nanavati | 31 January 1994 | 27 September 1994 | 240 days | Transferred to Karnataka as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 15 | Vallabhdas Aidan Mohta | 28 September 1994 | 25 April 1995 | 210 days | |
| 16 | Sailendu Nath Phukan | 2 August 1996 | 27 January 1999 | 2 years, 179 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 17 | Biswanath Agrawal | 18 November 1999 | 18 October 2000 | 336 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 18 | Nyaka Yellapa Hanumanthappa | 17 February 2001 | 24 September 2001 | 220 days | |
| 19 | Perubhemba Krishna Ayer Balasubramanyan | 5 December 2001 | 9 March 2003 | 1 year, 95 days | Transferred to Jharkhand as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 20 | Sujit Barman Roy | 10 March 2003 | 21 January 2007 | 3 years, 325 days | |
| 21 | Ashok Kumar Ganguly | 2 March 2007 | 18 May 2008 | 1 year, 78 days | Transferred to Madras as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 22 | Balbir Singh Chauhan | 16 July 2008 | 10 May 2009 | 299 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 23 | Bilal Nazki | 14 November 2009 | 17 November 2009 | 4 days | |
| 24 | Venkate Gopala Gowda | 25 March 2010 | 23 December 2012 | 2 years, 274 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 25 | Chokkalingam Nagappan | 27 February 2013 | 18 September 2013 | 204 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 26 | Adarsh Kumar Goel | 12 October 2013 | 6 July 2014 | 268 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 27 | Amitava Roy | 6 August 2014 | 26 February 2015 | 205 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 28 | Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela | 4 June 2015 | 14 February 2016 | 256 days | Transferred to Bombay as CJ |
| 29 | Vineet Saran | 26 February 2016 | 6 August 2018 | 2 years, 162 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 30 | Kalpesh Satyendra Jhaveri | 12 August 2018 | 4 January 2020 | 1 year, 146 days | |
| 31 | Mohammad Rafiq | 27 April 2020 | 3 January 2021 | 252 days | Transferred to Madhya Pradesh as CJ Later transferred to Himachal Pradesh as CJ |
| 32 | S. Muralidhar | 4 January 2021 | 7 August 2023 | 2 years, 216 days | |
| 33 | Subhasis Talapatra | 8 August 2023 | 3 October 2023 | 57 days | |
| 34 | Chakradhari Sharan Singh | 7 February 2024 | 19 January 2025 | 348 days | |

## Patna High Court

Patna High Court was established on 2 September 1916 under Letters Patent issued by then British Crown and had 44 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Ashutosh Kumar (Acting)
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| Pre Independence ||||||
| 1 | Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier | 1 March 1916 | 30 October 1917 | 1 year, 244 days | |
| 2 | Thomas Fredrick Dawson Miller | 31 October 1917 | 30 March 1928 | 10 years, 152 days | |
| 3 | Courtney Terrell | 31 March 1928 | 6 May 1938 | 10 years, 37 days | |
| 4 | Arthur Trevor Harries | 10 October 1938 | 18 January 1943 | 4 years, 101 days | |
| 5 | Syed Fazl Ali | 19 January 1943 | 14 October 1946 | 3 years, 269 days | Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| Post Independence ||||||
| 6 | Clifford Monmohan Agarwala | 9 January 1948 | 24 January 1950 | 2 years, 16 days | |
| 7 | Herbert Ribton Meredith | 25 January 1950 | 7 April 1950 | 73 days | |
| 8 | Pandit Lakshami Kant Jha | 8 April 1950 | 31 May 1952 | 2 years, 54 days | |
| 9 | David Ezra Reuben | 1 June 1952 | 2 September 1953 | 1 year, 94 days | |
| 10 | Syed Jafar Imam | 3 September 1953 | 9 January 1955 | 1 year, 129 days | |
| 11 | Sudhansu Kumar Das | 10 January 1955 | 29 April 1956 | 1 year, 111 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 12 | Vaidyanathier Ramaswami | 30 April 1956 | 3 January 1965 | 8 years, 249 days | |
| 13 | Ramaswamy Lakshmi Narasimhan | 4 January 1965 | 2 August 1968 | 3 years, 212 days | |
| 14 | Satish Chandra Sharma | 9 November 1968 | 4 September 1970 | 1 year, 300 days | |
| 15 | Ujjal Narayan Sinha | 5 September 1970 | 28 September 1972 | 2 years, 24 days | |
| 16 | Nand Lall Untwalia | 29 September 1972 | 2 October 1974 | 2 years, 4 days | |
| 17 | Shyam Nandan Prasad Singh | 3 October 1974 | 1 May 1976 | 1 year, 212 days | |
| 18 | Krishna Ballabh Narayan Singh | 19 July 1976 | 12 March 1982 | 5 years, 237 days | |
| 19 | Surjit Singh Sandhawalia | 29 November 1983 | 27 July 1987 | 3 years, 241 days | |
| 20 | Bhagwati Prasad Jha | 2 January 1988 | 2 January 1988 | 1 day | |
| 21 | Dipak Kumar Sen | 1 May 1988 | 1 May 1989 | 1 year, 1 day | |
| 22 | Shushil Kumar Jha | 19 October 1989 | 23 October 1989 | 5 days | Transferred to Madhya Pradesh as CJ |
| 23 | Gangadhar Ganesh Sohani | 24 October 1989 | 17 December 1990 | 1 year, 55 days | |
| 24 | Bimal Chandra Basak | 18 March 1991 | 21 October 1993 | 2 years, 218 days | |
| 25 | Krishnaswami Sundara Paripoornan | 24 January 1994 | 11 June 1994 | 142 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 26 | Konduswami Venkataswamy | 19 September 1994 | 6 March 1995 | 169 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 27 | Gopal Ballav Pattanaik | 19 May 1995 | 11 September 1995 | 116 days | Later served as 32nd Chief Justice of India |
| 28 | Devinder Pratap Wadhwa | 29 September 1995 | 21 March 1997 | 1 year, 174 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 29 | B.M. Lal | 9 July 1997 | 6 October 1999 | 2 years, 90 days | |
| 30 | Ravi Swaroop Dhavan | 25 January 2000 | 22 July 2004 | 4 years, 180 days | |
| 31 | J.N. Bhatt | 18 July 2005 | 16 October 2007 | 2 years, 91 days | |
| 32 | Rajesh Balia | 5 January 2008 | 3 March 2008 | 59 days | |
| 33 | Rajendra Mal Lodha | 13 May 2008 | 16 December 2008 | 218 days | Later served as 41st Chief Justice of India |
| 34 | Jacob Benjamin Koshy | 16 March 2009 | 12 May 2009 | 58 days | |
| 35 | Prafulla Kumar Mishra | 12 August 2009 | 16 September 2009 | 36 days | |
| 36 | Dipak Misra | 23 December 2009 | 23 May 2010 | 2 years, 194 days | Transferred to Delhi as CJ Later served as 45th Chief Justice of India |
| 37 | Rekha Manharlal Doshit | 21 June 2010 | 12 December 2014 | 4 years, 206 days | First Female CJ of Patna |
| 38 | L. Narasimha Reddy | 2 January 2015 | 31 July 2015 | 211 days | |
| 39 | Iqbal Ahmed Ansari | 29 July 2016 | 28 October 2016 | 92 days | |
| 40 | Rajendra Menon | 15 March 2017 | 8 August 2018 | 1 year, 147 days | Transferred to Delhi as CJ |
| 41 | Mukesh Rasikbhai Shah | 12 August 2018 | 1 November 2018 | 82 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 42 | Amreshwar Pratap Sahi | 17 November 2018 | 10 November 2019 | 359 days | Transferred to Madras as CJ |
| 43 | Sanjay Karol | 11 November 2019 | 6 February 2023 | 3 years, 88 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 44 | Krishnan Vinod Chandran | 29 March 2023 | 15 January 2025 | 1 year, 293 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |

## Punjab and Haryana High Court

Punjab and Haryana High Court was established on 15 August 1947 under Punjab High Court Ordinance, 1947 and had 35 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Sheel Nagu
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| 1 | Ram Lall | 15 August 1947 | 18 January 1949 | 1 year, 157 days | |
| 2 | Sudhi Ranjan Das | 19 January 1949 | 20 January 1950 | 1 year, 2 days | Later served as 5th Chief Justice of India |
| 3 | Eric Weston | 21 January 1950 | 8 December 1952 | 2 years, 323 days | |
| 4 | Amar Nath Bhandari | 9 December 1952 | 18 November 1959 | 6 years, 345 days | |
| 5 | Gopal Das Khosla | 19 November 1959 | 14 November 1961 | 1 year, 361 days | |
| 6 | Donald Falshaw | 15 December 1961 | 29 May 1966 | 4 years, 166 days | |
| 7 | Mehar Singh | 30 May 1966 | 14 August 1970 | 4 years, 77 days | |
| 8 | Harbans Singh | 15 August 1970 | 8 April 1974 | 3 years, 237 days | |
| 9 | Daya Krishan Mahajan | 10 April 1974 | 10 May 1974 | 31 days | |
| 10 | Ranjit Singh Narula | 11 May 1974 | 31 October 1977 | 3 years, 174 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 11 | Anand Dev Koshal | 1 November 1977 | 16 July 1978 | 258 days | |
| 12 | Surjit Singh Sandhawalia | 17 July 1978 | 28 November 1983 | 5 years, 135 days | Transferred to Patna as CJ |
| 13 | Prem Chand Jain | 1 August 1985 | 17 August 1986 | 1 year, 17 days | Served as Acting Chief Justice for almost 2 years from 28 November 1983 to 31 July 1985 before being elevated as Chief Justice |
| 14 | Hariday Nath Seth | 18 August 1986 | 14 October 1987 | 1 year, 58 days | |
| 15 | Debi Singh Tewatia | 15 October 1987 | 29 October 1987 | 15 days | Transferred to Calcutta as CJ |
| 16 | Veeraswami Ramaswami | 12 November 1987 | 6 October 1989 | 1 year, 329 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 17 | Shanti Sarup Dewan | 24 October 1989 | 31 December 1989 | 69 days | |
| 18 | Jitendra Vir Gupta | 9 July 1990 | 1 May 1991 | 297 days | |
| 19 | Bipin Chandra Verma | 19 September 1991 | 2 May 1992 | 227 days | |
| 20 | Mandagadde Rama Jois | 3 May 1992 | 31 August 1992 | 121 days | |
| 21 | Sudarshan Dayal Aggarwal | 13 November 1992 | 14 January 1994 | 1 year, 63 days | |
| 22 | Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar | 16 January 1994 | 27 March 1996 | 2 years, 72 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 23 | K. Sreedharan | 30 July 1996 | 18 October 1997 | 1 year, 81 days | |
| 24 | A. B. Saharya | 7 November 1997 | 14 September 2002 | 4 years, 312 days | |
| 25 | Binod Kumar Roy | 14 October 2002 | 21 February 2005 | 2 years, 131 days | Transferred to Gauhati as CJ Later transferred to Sikkim as CJ |
| 26 | Devinder Kumar Jain | 11 March 2005 | 9 April 2006 | 1 year, 30 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 27 | Vijender Jain | 28 November 2006 | 1 August 2008 | 1 year, 248 days | |
| 28 | Tirath Singh Thakur | 11 August 2008 | 16 November 2009 | 1 year, 98 days | Later served as 43rd Chief Justice of India |
| 29 | Mukul Mudgal | 5 December 2009 | 3 January 2011 | 1 year, 30 days | |
| 30 | Ranjan Gogoi | 12 February 2011 | 22 April 2012 | 70 days | Later served as 46th Chief Justice of India |
| 31 | Arjan Kumar Sikri | 23 September 2012 | 11 April 2013 | 201 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 32 | Sanjay Kishan Kaul | 1 June 2013 | 25 July 2014 | 1 year, 55 days | Transferred to Madras as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 33 | Shiavax Jal Vazifdar | 7 August 2016 | 3 May 2018 | 1 year, 270 days | Served as Acting Chief Justice for more than 1.5 years from 15 December 2014 to 6 August 2016 before being elevated as Chief Justice |
| 34 | Krishna Murari | 2 June 2018 | 22 September 2019 | 1 year, 113 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 35 | Ravi Shankar Jha | 6 October 2019 | 13 October 2023 | 4 years, 8 days | |

## Rajasthan High Court

Rajasthan High Court was established on 21 June 1949 under Rajasthan High Court Ordinance, 1949 and had 45 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| 1 | Kamalkanta Verma | 29 August 1949 | 24 January 1950 | 149 days | |
| 2 | Kailas Nath Wanchoo | 2 January 1951 | 10 May 1958 | 7 years, 221 days | Later served as 10th Chief Justice of India |
| 3 | Sarju Prasad | 28 February 1959 | 10 October 1961 | 2 years, 225 days | |
| 4 | J.S. Ranawat | 11 October 1961 | 31 May 1963 | 1 year, 233 days | |
| 5 | D.S. Dave | 1 June 1963 | 17 December 1968 | 5 years, 200 days | |
| 6 | Daulat Mal Bhandari | 18 December 1968 | 15 December 1969 | 363 days | |
| 7 | J. Narayan | 16 December 1969 | 13 February 1973 | 3 years, 60 days | |
| 8 | B. P. Beri | 14 February 1973 | 16 February 1975 | 2 years, 3 days | |
| 9 | Prakash Narayan Shinghal | 17 February 1975 | 5 November 1975 | 262 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 10 | V. P. Tyagi | 6 November 1975 | 27 December 1977 | 2 years, 52 days | |
| 11 | C. Honniah | 27 April 1978 | 22 September 1978 | 149 days | |
| 12 | Chand Mal Lodha | 12 March 1979 | 9 July 1980 | 1 year, 120 days | |
| 13 | K. D. Sharma | 7 January 1981 | 22 October 1983 | 2 years, 289 days | |
| 14 | P. K. Banerjee | 23 October 1983 | 30 September 1985 | 1 year, 343 days | |
| 15 | D. P. Gupta | 12 April 1986 | 31 July 1986 | 111 days | |
| 16 | Jagdish Sharan Verma | 1 September 1986 | 22 May 1989 | 2 years, 264 days | Later served as 27th Chief Justice of India |
| 17 | Krishna Chandra Agarwal | 15 April 1990 | 7 April 1994 | 3 years, 358 days | Transferred to Calcutta as CJ |
| 18 | Gokal Chand Mittal | 12 April 1994 | 3 March 1995 | 326 days | |
| 19 | Amratlal Parmananddas Ravani | 4 April 1995 | 10 September 1996 | 1 year, 160 days | |
| 20 | Mukul Gopal Mukherjee | 19 September 1996 | 24 December 1997 | 1 year, 97 days | |
| 21 | Shivaraj Virupanna Patil | 22 January 1999 | 14 March 2000 | 1 year, 53 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 22 | Arunachalam R. Lakshmanan | 29 May 2000 | 25 November 2001 | 1 year, 181 days | Transferred to Undivded Andhra Pradesh as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 23 | Arun Kumar | 2 December 2001 | 2 October 2002 | 305 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 24 | Anil Dev Singh | 24 December 2002 | 22 October 2004 | 1 year, 304 days | |
| 25 | S. N. Jha | 12 October 2005 | 15 June 2007 | 1 year, 247 days | |
| 26 | J. M. Panchal | 16 September 2007 | 11 November 2007 | 57 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 27 | Narayan Roy | 5 January 2008 | 31 January 2009 | 1 year, 27 days | |
| 28 | Deepak Verma | 6 March 2009 | 10 May 2009 | 69 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 29 | Jagadish Bhalla | 10 August 2009 | 31 October 2010 | 1 year, 83 days | |
| 30 | Arun Kumar Mishra | 26 November 2010 | 13 December 2012 | 2 years, 18 days | Transferred to Calcutta as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 31 | Amitava Roy | 2 January 2013 | 5 August 2014 | 1 year, 216 days | Transferred to Orissa as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 32 | Sunil Ambwani | 24 March 2015 | 21 August 2015 | 151 days | |
| 33 | Satish Kumar Mittal | 5 March 2016 | 14 April 2016 | 41 days | |
| 34 | Navin Sinha | 14 May 2016 | 17 February 2017 | 280 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 35 | Pradeep Nandrajog | 2 April 2017 | 6 April 2019 | 2 years, 5 days | Transferred to Bombay as CJ |
| 36 | Shripathi Ravindra Bhat | 5 May 2019 | 23 September 2019 | 142 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 37 | Indrajit Mahanty | 6 October 2019 | 11 October 2021 | 2 years, 6 days | Transferred to Tripura as CJ |
| 38 | Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi | 12 October 2021 | 6 March 2022 | 146 days | |
| 39 | Sambhaji Shiwaji Shinde | 21 June 2022 | 1 August 2022 | 42 days | |
| 40 | Pankaj Mithal | 14 October 2022 | 5 February 2023 | 115 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |
| 41 | Augustine George Masih | 30 May 2023 | 8 November 2023 | 163 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |

## Sikkim High Court

Sikkim High Court was established on 16 May 1975 under The 36th Amendment to the Indian Constitution and had 21 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Biswanath Somadder
| Sr. No. | Name | Date of Appointment | Date of Retirement | Tenure | Remarks |
| 1 | Man Mohan Singh Gujral | 7 May 1976 | 14 March 1983 | 6 years, 312 days | |
| 2 | Mohan Lall Shrimal | 17 December 1983 | 3 January 1985 | 1 year, 18 days | |
| 3 | Jugal Kishore Mohanty | 21 January 1986 | 4 January 1989 | 2 years, 350 days | |
| 4 | Braja Nath Misra | 20 January 1990 | 8 November 1992 | 2 years, 294 days | |
| 5 | Surendra Nath Bhargava | 20 January 1993 | 10 February 1996 | 3 years, 22 days | |
| 6 | Krishna Murari Agarwal | 15 February 1996 | 26 October 1996 | 255 days | |
| 7 | Kanniappa Arumuga Thanikkachallam | 27 August 1997 | 26 September 1997 | 31 days | |
| 8 | Repusudan Dayal | 3 February 1999 | 17 May 2003 | 4 years, 104 days | |
| 9 | Radha Krishna Patra | 9 July 2003 | 23 November 2004 | 1 year, 138 days | |
| 10 | Binod Kumar Roy | 30 September 2005 | 26 December 2006 | 1 year, 88 days | |
| 11 | Ajoy Nath Ray | 27 January 2007 | 30 October 2008 | 1 year, 278 days | |
| 12 | Aftab Hussain Saikia | 7 March 2009 | 7 April 2010 | 1 year, 32 days | Transferred to Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as CJ |
| 13 | Barin Ghosh | 13 April 2010 | 5 August 2010 | 115 days | Transferred to Uttarakhand as CJ |
| 14 | Paul Daniel Dinakaran Premkumar | 9 August 2010 | 29 July 2011 | 355 days | |
| 15 | Permod Kohli | 12 December 2011 | 27 February 2013 | 1 year, 78 days | |
| 16 | Pius C. Kuriakose | 28 February 2013 | 1 October 2013 | 188 days | |
| 17 | Narendra Kumar Jain | 7 January 2014 | 7 October 2014 | 274 days | |
| 18 | Sunil Kumar Sinha | 30 March 2015 | 6 July 2016 | 1 year, 99 days | |
| 19 | Satish K. Agnihotri | 22 September 2016 | 30 June 2018 | 1 year, 282 days | |
| 20 | Vijay Kumar Bist | 30 October 2018 | 16 September 2019 | 322 days | |
| 21 | Arup Kumar Goswami | 15 October 2019 | 5 January 2021 | 1 year, 83 days | Transferred to Andhra Pradesh as CJ Later transferred to Chhattisgarh as CJ |
| 22 | Jitendra Kumar Maheshwari | 6 January 2021 | 30 August 2021 | 237 days | Elevated to Supreme Court of India |