Ramesh Chandra Lahoti was the 35th Chief Justice of India,serving from 1 June 2004 to 1 November 2005.
The Chief Justice of India (CJI) (ISO:Bhārat kēMukhya Nyāyādhīśa) is the highest-ranking officer of the Indian judiciary and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of India. The Constitution of India grants power to the President of India to appoint,as recommended by the outgoing chief justice in consultation with other judges as envisaged in Article 124 (2) of the Constitution,the next chief justice,who will serve until they reach the age of 65 or are removed by the constitutional process of impeachment.
Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan is an Indian judge who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India and later the chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of India. He was the first judge from Kerala to become the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. His tenure lasting more than three years has been one of the longest in the Supreme Court of India. While being Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court,he was appointed the acting governor of Gujarat from 16 January 1999 to 18 March 1999. In 2010,he was conferred with an honorary doctorate by Cochin University of Science and Technology.
Girish Thakurlal Nanavati was an Indian judge who was a justice of the Supreme Court of India. After his retirement,he headed two commissions inquiring into the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots and the Godhra riots.
Vishweshwar Nath Khare is a retired Indian judge who served as the 33rd Chief Justice of India,from 19 December 2002 to 2 May 2004. He also served as the Chancellor of the Central University of Jharkhand from 2017 to 2023. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 21 March 1997 before he was elevated to the post of Chief Justice.
Mukundakam Sharma is an Indian attorney and judge. He served on the Supreme Court of India. He was appointed on 9 April 2008,and retired on 17 September 2011.
Satya Brata Sinha,known as S. B. Sinha was a jurist and former judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Ranganath Misra was the 21st Chief Justice of India,serving from 25 September 1990 to 24 November 1991. He was also the first chairman of the National Human Rights Commission of India. He also served as Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from the Congress Party between 1998 and 2004. He is the second Supreme court judge to become a Rajya Sabha member after Baharul Islam who was also elected as Indian National Congress member.
Ananga Kumar Patnaik is an Indian jurist and a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.
M. Jagannadha Rao was Chief Justice of Kerala High Court and Delhi High Court and Judge of Supreme Court of India.
Ranjan Gogoi is an Indian former advocate and judge who served as the 46th Chief Justice of India from 2018 to 2019,having previously served as a Judge of the Supreme Court of India from 2012 to 2018. He is currently a Member of the Rajya Sabha,having been nominated by President Ram Nath Kovind on 16 March 2020. Gogoi served as a judge in the Gauhati High Court from 2001 to 2010,and then was transferred as a judge to the Punjab and Haryana High Court from 2010 to 2011 where he later was the Chief Justice from 2011 to 2012. He is also a member of the Committee on External Affairs in the Rajya Sabha.
Uday Umesh Lalit is an Indian lawyer and former Supreme Court Judge,who served as the 49th Chief Justice of India. Previously,he has served as a judge of Supreme Court of India. Prior to his elevation as a judge,he practised as a senior counsel at the Supreme Court. Justice Lalit is one of the eleven senior counsels who have been directly elevated to the Supreme Court. He is currently ‘Distinguished Visiting Professor’at Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies,Indian Institute of Technology,Bombay and Distinguished Visiting Professor at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences.
Satish Chandra Sharma is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is former chief justice of the Delhi High Court and Telangana High Court. He has also served as the acting chief justice of the Karnataka High Court and judge of the Karnataka High Court and Madhya Pradesh High Court.
Aniruddha Bose is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is also the former chief justice of the Jharkhand High Court and judge of the Calcutta High Court.
Krishna Murari is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India and former chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. He has also served as a judge of the Allahabad High Court till his elevation as chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
Suryakant Sharma is an Indian judge of the Supreme Court of India,set to become the 53rd Chief Justice of India,if the convention of seniority is followed. Prior to his elevation as judge,Kant was a Senior Advocate and also served as the Advocate General for Haryana.
H. K. Sema is an Indian jurist and former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He has also served as the chairperson of Uttar Pradesh Human Rights Commission.
Uma Nath Singh is an Indian Judge and former Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court.
Saurabh Kirpal is an Indian lawyer,author and a senior advocate at the Delhi High Court. He is also an LGBTQ rights activist.
