List of chief justices of the Bombay High Court

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Chief Justice of Bombay High Court
Incumbent
Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya
since 29 July 2023
Bombay High Court
AbbreviationCJ Bombay
Seat Bombay
NominatorCollegium of the Supreme Court of India
Appointer President of India
Term length till the age of 62 yrs [1]
Constituting instrument Constitution of India (under Article 124)
Formation1862;162 years ago (1862)
First holderJustice Matthew Richard Sausse (1862-1866)
Salary250,000 (US$3,100) (per month) [2]
Website http://www.bombayhighcourt.nic.in/

This is a list of chief justices of the Bombay High Court. See List of chief justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay for previous chief justices.

List of chief justices

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1Sir Mathew Richard Sausse 18621866
2Sir Richard Couch 18661870
3Sir Michael Roberts Westropp 18701882
4Sir Charles Sargent 18821895
5Sir Charles Frederick Farran 18951898
6Sir Louis Addin Kershaw 18981899
7Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins 18991908
8Sir Basil Scott 19081919
9Sir Norman Cranstoun Macleod 19191926
10Sir Amberson Barrington Marten 19261930
11Sir John William Fisher Beaumont 19301943
12Sir Leonard Stone 19431947 John Colville
After Independence
12Sir Leonard Stone19471948 John Colville
13 Mahommedali Currim Chagla 19481958 Raja Sir Maharaj Singh
14 Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani 19581965 Sri Prakasa
15 Yeshwant Shripad Tambe 19654 February 1966
5 February 196631 July 1966Dr P V Cherian
16 Sohrab Peshotan Kotval 1 August 196626 September 1972
17 K. Kalyandas Desai 27 September 197226 October 1972
18 Ramanlal Maneklal Kantawala 27 October 19725 October 1978 Ali Yavar Jung
19 B. N. Deshmukh 6 October 197818 November 1980 Sri Sadiq Ali
20 Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande 19 November 198011 January 1981-
12 January 198111 August 1982 O P Mehra
21 Dinshah Pirosha Madon 12 August 198230 August 1982-
31 August 198214 March 1983 Idris Hasan Latif
22 Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar 15 March 198314 March 1984
23 Konda Madhava Reddy 8 April 198421 October 1985
24 Madhukar Hiralal Kania 23 June 19861 May 1987Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma
25 Chittatosh Mookerjee 2 November 198731 December 1990
25 Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai 7 January 199113 December 1992Dr. C Subramaniam
26 Manoj Kumar Mukherjee 9 January 199314 December 1993
27 Sujata Manohar 15 January 19947 November 1994Dr. P.C. Alexander
28 Anandamoy Bhattacharjee 21 April 19941 April 1995
29 Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah 2 August 19959 December 1998
30 Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal 3 February 199928 January 2000
31 Bisheshwar Prasad Singh 31 March 200014 December 2001
32 Chunilal Karsandas Thakker 31 December 20017 June 2004
33 Dalveer Bhandari 25 July 200427 October 2005 Mohammed Fazal
34 Kshitij R. Vyas 25 February 200618 July 2006 S.M. Krishna
35 Harjit Singh Bedi 3 October 200612 January 2007
36 Swatanter Kumar 31 March 200730 December 2009
37 Anil Ramesh Dave 11 February 201029 April 2010 Kateekal Sankaranarayanan
38 Mohit Shantilal Shah 26 June 20108 September 2015
39 Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela 15 February 201610 August 2016 Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao
40 Manjula Chellur 22 August 20164 December 2017
41 Vijaya Tahilramani 5 December 201712 August 2018-
42 Naresh Harishchandra Patil 13 August 201828 October 2018
29 October 20186 April 2019 Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao
43 Pradeep Nandrajog 7 April 201923 February 2020
44 B. P. Dharmadhikari 24 February 202019 March 2020
20 March 202027 April 2020 Bhagat Singh Koshyari
45 Dipankar Datta 28 April 202011 December 2022
46 Ramesh Devkinandan Dhanuka 28 May 202330 May 2023
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Act CJ Nitin Jamdar 30 May 202328 July 2023 Ramesh Bais
47 Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya 29 July 2023Present Ramesh Bais

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