List of Chief Justice of India (1950-2023) – Supreme Court Chief Justice Lists

In government exams like SSC, Banking, Railways, etc we find many questions from the general awareness section. this is a very broad section and sometimes questions are very factual. we will cover the General awareness section comprehensively so that students can learn and get most of the questions correct in this section. In this article, we will provide a complete list of the Chief Justices of India.

Chief Justice Of India:

• Chief Justice is appointed by the President of India after consultation with the judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts if necessary. 
  
• In the Second Judges Case of 1993, The Supreme Court ruled that the Senior judge should be appointed as Chief Justice of India. 
  
• The Indian Constitution has given Parliament the power to decide on the salaries, allowances, privileges, leave of absence, and pensions of the judges of the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice. 
  
• He is responsible for allocating cases and appointing the constitutional chambers. Hence, he is also known as the “Master of the Roster”. 
  
• In the precedence table, he is sixth with the speaker of the Lok Sabha.

List of Chief Justices of India

The list of chief justices of India is given below;

Sr. No.	Name of Chief Justice	Tenure
1	H.J Kania	26 January 1950 – 6 November 1951
2	M. Patanjali Sastri	7 November 1951 – 3 January 1954
3	Mehr Chand Mahajan	4 January 1954 – 22 December 1954
4	Bijan Kumar Mukherjea	23 December 1954 – 31 January 1956
5	Sudhi Ranjan Das	1 February 1956 – 30 September 1959
6	Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha	1 October 1959 – 31 January 1964
7	P. B. Gajendragadkar	1 February 1964 – 15 March 1966
8	Amal Kumar Sarkar	16 March 1966 – 29 June 1966
9	Koka Subba Rao	30 June 1966 – 11 April 1967
10	Kailas Nath Wanchoo	12 April 1967 – 24 February 1968
11	Mohammad Hidayatullah	25 February 1968 – 16 December 1970
12	Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah	17 December 1970 – 21 January 1971
13	Sarv Mittra Sikri	22 January 1971 – 25 April 1973
14	A. N. Ray	26 April 1973 – 27 January 1977
15	Mirza Hameedullah Beg	29 January 1977 – 21 February 1978
16	Y. V. Chandrachud	22 February 1978 – 11 July 1985
17	P. N. Bhagwati	12 July 1985 – 20 December 1986
18	Raghunandan Swarup Pathak	21 December 1986 – 18 June 1989
19	E.S. Venkataramiah	19 June 1989 – 17 December 1989
20	Sabyasachi Mukharji	18 December 1989 – 25 September 1990
21	Ranganath Misra	26 September 1990 – 24 November 1991
22	Kamal Narain Singh	25 November 1991 – 12 December 1991
23	Madhukar Hiralal Kania	13 December 1991 – 17 November 1992
24	Lalit Mohan Sharma	18 November 1992 – 11 February 1993
25	M. N. Venkatachaliah	12 February 1993 – 24 October 1994
26	Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi	25 October 1994 – 24 March 1997
27	J. S. Verma	25 March 1997 – 17 January 1998
28	Madan Mohan Punchhi	18 January 1998 – 9 October 1998
29	Adarsh Sein Anand	10 October 1998 – 31 October 2001
30	Sam Piroj Bharucha	1 November 2001 – 5 May 2002
31	Bhupinder Nath Kirpal	6 May 2002 – 7 November 2002
32	Gopal Ballav Pattanaik	8 November 2002 – 18 December 2002
33	V. N. Khare	19 December 2002 – 1 May 2004
34	S. Rajendra Babu	2 May 2004 – 31 May 2004
35	Ramesh Chandra Lahoti	1 June 2004 – 31 October 2005
36	Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal	1 November 2005 – 13 January 2007
37	K. G. Balakrishnan	14 January 2007 – 12 May 2010
38	S. H. Kapadia	12 May 2010 – 28 September 2012
39	Altamas Kabir	29 September 2012 – 18 July 2013
40	P. Sathasivam	19 July 2013 – 26 April 2014
41	Rajendra Mal Lodha	27 April 2014 – 27 September 2014
42	H. L. Dattu	28 September 2014 – 2 December 2015
43	T. S. Thakur	3 December 2015 – 3 January 2017
44	Jagdish Singh Khehar	4 January 2017 – 27 August 2017
45	Dipak Misra	28 August 2017 – 2 October 2018
46	Ranjan Gogoi	3 October 2018 – 17 November 2019
47	Sharad Arvind Bobde	18 November 2019 – 23 April 2021
48	Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana	23 April 2021 – 26 August 2022
49	Uday Umesh Lalit	27 August 2022 – 8 November 2022
50	Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud	9 November 2022 – Incumbent