predecessor successor death_date office birth_date term_start appointer article_title term_end name alma_mater
victor tennekoon suppiah sharvananda 1990 36th chief justice of sri lanka 22 october 1919 1977 j. r. jayewardene neville samarakoon
 1984 neville samarakoon university college , colombo law college , colombo
neville samarakoon

neville dunbar mirahawatte samarakoon -lrb- 22 october 1919 - 1990 -rrb- was a sri lankan lawyer , who served as chief justice of sri lanka from 1977 to 1984 .
his father was a. c. w. samarakoon and mother was chandrawathi mirahawatte kumarihamy .
he was educated at trinity college , kandy , then at university college , colombo and the law college , colombo .
he began work as an advocate in 1945 , and worked as a crown counsel from 1948 to 195 , when he returned to private work .
he was made queen 's counsel in 1968 .
from 1964 to 1977 he was a member of the bar council , and sat on the disciplinary board for lawyers from 1971 to 1974 , then again in 1976 and 1977 .
he was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of sri lanka in 1977 , a post he would hold until retiring in 1984 .
he was succeeded by suppiah sharvananda .
