List of chief justices of India

This is a list of all Chief Justices of India (CJI). There are a total of 47 Chief Justices of India that have served since the establishment of the Supreme Court of India in 1950, which superseded the Federal Court of India. The current Incumbent Chief Justice is Sharad Arvind Bobde, who entered office on 18 November 2019.

The Supreme Court of India

List of Chief Justices of India

Federal Court of India (1937–50)

The Federal Court of India came into being on 1 October 1937. The seat of the court was the Chamber of Princes in the Parliament building in Delhi. It began with a Chief Justice and two puisne judges. The first Chief Justice was Sir Maurice Gwyer and the other two judges were Sir Shah Muhammad Sulaiman and M. R. Jayakar. It functioned until the establishment of the Supreme Court of India on 28 January 1950.

№ Image Name
(birth–death)		 Period of office Length of term (days) Bar Appointed by
1
Sir Maurice Gwyer
(1878–1952)		 1 October 1937 25 April 1943‡ 2,032 Inner Temple The Marquess of Linlithgow
Acting Sir Srinivas Varadachariar 25 April 1943 7 June 1943 43
2 Sir Patrick Spens
(1885–1973)		 7 June 1943 14 August 1947 1,529 Inner Temple
3 Sir H. J. Kania
(1890–1951)		 14 August 1947 26 January 1950 896 Bombay High Court The Viscount Mountbatten of Burma


Supreme Court of India (1950–present)

Since the birth of the Republic of India on 26 January 1950, 47 people have served as the Chief Justice of India (CJI).[1] While H. J. Kania is the inaugural CJI, the current incumbent is Sharad Arvind Bobde who took office of Chief Justice of India on 18 November 2019. Justice Y. V. Chandrachud is the longest serving Chief Justice, serving over 7 years (February 1978 – July 1985), while Kamal Narain Singh is the shortest serving, for 17 days (21 November 1991 – 12 December 1991).

№ Image Name
(birth–death)		 Period of office Length of term (days) Bar Appointed by (President of India)
1 H. J. Kania
(1890–1951)		 26 January 1950 6 November 1951† 649 Bombay High Court Rajendra Prasad
2 M. Patanjali Sastri
(1889–1963)		 7 November 1951 3 January 1954 788 Madras High Court
3 Mehr Chand Mahajan
(1889–1967)		 4 January 1954 22 December 1954 352 Punjab and Haryana High Court
4 Bijan Kumar Mukherjea
(1891–1956)		 23 December 1954 31 January 1956‡ 404 Calcutta High Court
5 Sudhi Ranjan Das
(1894–1977)		 1 February 1956 30 September 1959 1337 Calcutta High Court
6 Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha
(1899–1986)		 1 October 1959 31 January 1964 1583 Patna High Court
7 P. B. Gajendragadkar
(1901–1981)		 1 February 1964 15 March 1966 773 Bombay High Court Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
8 Amal Kumar Sarkar
(1901–2001)		 16 March 1966 29 June 1966 105 Calcutta High Court
9 Koka Subba Rao
(1902–1976)		 30 June 1966 11 April 1967‡ 285 Madras High Court
10 Kailas Nath Wanchoo
(1903–1988)		 12 April 1967 24 February 1968 318 Allahabad High Court
11 Mohammad Hidayatullah
(1905–1992)[2]		 25 February 1968 16 December 1970 1025 Bombay High Court Zakir Hussain
12 Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah
(1906–1991)		 17 December 1970 21 January 1971 35 Bombay High Court Varahagiri Venkata Giri
13 Sarv Mittra Sikri
(1908–1992)		 22 January 1971 25 April 1973 824 Lahore High Court
14 A. N. Ray
(1912–2009)		 26 April 1973 27 January 1977 1372 Calcutta High Court
15 Mirza Hameedullah Beg
(1913–1988)		 29 January 1977 21 February 1978 389 Allahabad High Court Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
16 Y. V. Chandrachud
(1920–2008)		 22 February 1978 11 July 1985 2696 Bombay High Court Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
17 P. N. Bhagwati
(1921–2017)		 12 July 1985 20 December 1986 526 Gujarat High Court Zail Singh
18 Raghunandan Swarup Pathak
(1924–2007)		 21 December 1986 18 June 1989‡ 940 Allahabad High Court
19 Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah
(1924–1997)		 19 June 1989 17 December 1989 181 Karnataka High Court Ramaswamy Venkataraman
20 Sabyasachi Mukharji
(1927–1990)		 18 December 1989 25 September 1990† 281 Calcutta High Court
21 Ranganath Misra
(1926–2012)		 26 September 1990 24 November 1991 424 Orissa High Court
22 Kamal Narain Singh
(1926–)		 25 November 1991 12 December 1991 17 Allahabad High Court
23 Madhukar Hiralal Kania
(1927–2016)		 13 December 1991 17 November 1992 340 Bombay High Court
24 Lalit Mohan Sharma
(1928–2008)		 18 November 1992 11 February 1993 85 Patna High Court Shankar Dayal Sharma
25 M. N. Venkatachaliah
(1929–)		 12 February 1993 24 October 1994 619 Karnataka High Court
26 Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi
(1932–)		 25 October 1994 24 March 1997 881 Gujarat High Court
27 J. S. Verma
(1933–2013)		 25 March 1997 17 January 1998 298 Madhya Pradesh High Court
28 Madan Mohan Punchhi
(1933–2015)		 18 January 1998 9 October 1998 264 Punjab and Haryana High Court Kocheril Raman Narayanan
29 Adarsh Sein Anand
(1936–2017)		 10 October 1998 31 October 2001 1,117 Jammu and Kashmir High Court
30 Sam Piroj Bharucha
(1937–)		 1 November 2001 5 May 2002 185 Bombay High Court
31 Bhupinder Nath Kirpal
(1937–)		 6 May 2002 7 November 2002 185 Delhi High Court
32 Gopal Ballav Pattanaik
(1937–)		 8 November 2002 18 December 2002 40 Orissa High Court A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
33 V. N. Khare
(1939–)		 19 December 2002 1 May 2004 499 Allahabad High Court
34 S. Rajendra Babu
(1939–)		 2 May 2004 31 May 2004 29 Karnataka High Court
35 Ramesh Chandra Lahoti
(1940–)		 1 June 2004 31 October 2005 517 Madhya Pradesh High Court
36 Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal
(1942–2015)		 1 November 2005 13 January 2007 438 Delhi High Court
37 K. G. Balakrishnan
(1945–)		 14 January 2007 12 May 2010 1,214 Kerala High Court
38 S. H. Kapadia
(1947–2016)		 12 May 2010 28 September 2012 870 Bombay High Court Pratibha Patil
39 Altamas Kabir
(1948–2017)		 29 September 2012 18 July 2013 292 Calcutta High Court Pranab Mukherjee
40 P. Sathasivam
(1949–)		 19 July 2013 26 April 2014 281 Madras High Court
41 Rajendra Mal Lodha
(1949–)		 27 April 2014 27 September 2014 153 Rajasthan High Court
42 H. L. Dattu
(1950–)		 28 September 2014 2 December 2015 430 Karnataka High Court
43 T. S. Thakur
(1952–)		 3 December 2015 3 January 2017 397 Jammu and Kashmir High Court
44 Jagdish Singh Khehar
(1952–)		 4 January 2017 27 August 2017 235 Punjab and Haryana High Court
45 Dipak Misra
(1953–)		 28 August 2017 2 October 2018 400 Orissa High Court Ram Nath Kovind
46 Ranjan Gogoi
(1954–)		 3 October 2018 17 November 2019 410 Gauhati High Court
47 Sharad Arvind Bobde
(1956–)		 18 November 2019[3] Incumbent 210 Bombay High Court

Notes
  • † – Date of Death
  • ‡ – Date of Resignation

See also

References
  1. "List of Retired Hon'ble Chief Justices". Archived from the original on 19 December 2016. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
  2. Also served as Acting President of India and Vice-President of India.
  3. "Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde takes oath as 47th CJI". Times of India. 18 November 2019.
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