List of chief justices of the Gujarat High Court

Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court
Incumbent Justice Sunita Agarwal since 23 July 2023
Gujarat High Court
Abbreviation	CJ Gujarat
Seat	Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Nominator	Collegium of the Supreme Court
Appointer	President of India
Term length	till the age of 62 yrs [1]
Constituting instrument	Constitution of India (under Article 214)
Formation	1 May 1960;65 years ago (1960-05-01)
First holder	Justice S. T. Desai (1 May 1960 – 25 January 1961)
Salary	₹250,000 (US$3,000) (per month) [2]
Website	http://gujarathighcourt.nic.in/

The Chief Justice of Gujarat presides over the Gujarat High Court. They are not appointed by the President of India under warrant. The President is required to consult the Governor of Gujarat and the Chief Justice of India before making such appointment. The Governor of Gujarat administers the oath of office at time of appointment. The current Chief Justice of the High Court of Gujarat is Justice Sunita Agarwal.

List of Chief justice of Gujarat

#	Picture	Chief Justice	Took office
1		Sir William Syer [3]	1798	Died 1802
2		Sir James Mackintosh [4]	1803
3		Sir John Henry Newbolt	1811
4		Sir Alexander Anstruther [4]	1812	Died 1819
5		Sir D. Evans [4]	1820	Died 1821
6		Sir Edward West [4]	1822	Became Chief Justice of Supreme Court, 1823
6		Sir Edward West [5] [6]	1823	first year was in the Recorder's Court
7		Sir James Dewar [5]	1829
8		Sir Herbert Abingdon Draper Compton [5]	1831
9		Sir John Wither Awdry [5]	1839
10		Sir Henry Roper [5]	1840
11		Sir David Pollock [5]	1846
12		Sir Thomas Erskine Perry [5]	1847
13		Sir William Yardley [6]	1852
14		Sir Matthew Richard Sausse [6]	1859	became Bombay High Court Chief Judge in 1862
14		Sir Mathew Richard Sausse	1862	1866
15		Sir Richard Couch	1866	1870
16		Sir Michael Roberts Westropp	1870	1882
17		Sir Charles Sargent	1882	1895
18		Sir Charles Frederick Farran	1895	1898
19		Sir Louis Addin Kershaw	1898	1899
20		Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins	1899	1908
21		Sir Basil Scott	1908	1919
22		Sir Norman Cranstoun Macleod	1919	1926
23		Sir Amberson Barrington Marten	1926	1930
24		Sir John William Fisher Beaumont	1930	1943
25		Sir Leonard Stone	1943	1947
After Independence
26		Sir Leonard Stone	1947	1948
27		Mahommedali Currim Chagla	1948	1958
28		Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani	1958	1 May 1960

#	Portrait	Chief Justice	Tenure
			Start	End
29		Sunderlal Trikamlal Desai	1 May 1960	25 January 1961
30		Kantilal Thakoredas Desai	26 January 1961	22 May 1963
31		Jaishanker Manilal Shelat	31 May 1963	21 February 1966
32		Jaishanker Manilal Shelat	21 February 1966	22 February 1966
33		Nomanbhai Mahmedbhai Miabhoy	22 February 1966	24 February 1966
34		Nomanbhai Mahmedbhai Miabhoy	21 February 1966	15 September 1967
35		P. N. Bhagwati	15 September 1967	17 July 1973
36		Bipinchandra Jivanlal Diwan	17 July 1973	1 July 1976
37		Seshareddi Obul Reddi	1 July 1976	18 August 1977
38		Bipinchandra Jivanlal Divan	18 August 1977	20 August 1977
39		Seshareddi Obul Reddi	20 August 1977	28 August 1977
40		Bipinchandra Jivanlal Diwan	28 August 1977	19 August 1981
41		Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar	20 August 1981	28 September 1983
42		Padmanabham Subramanian Poti	28 September 1983	1 February 1985
43		Ganendra Narayan Ray	1 February 1985	21 March 1985
44		Puliyangudi Ramaiyapillai Gokulakrishnan	21 March 1985	12 August 1990
45		Ganendra Narayan Ray	12 August 1990	15 June 1992
46		Sundaram Nainar Sundaram	15 June 1992	14 December 1993
47		Bhupinder Nath Kirpal	14 December 1993	1 July 1996
48		Gurudas Datta Kamat	1 July 1996	4 January 1997
49		Kumaran Sreedharan	4 January 1997	3 June 1998
50		Konakuppakattil Gopinathan Balakrishnan	3 June 1998	7 September 1999
51		D M Dharmadhikari	7 September 1999	17 March 2002
52		Daya Saran Sinha	17 March 2002	18 March 2003
53		Bhawani Singh	18 March 2003	27 March 2006
54		Y. R. Meena	3 February 2006	30 June 2008
55		K S Panicker Radhakrishnan	30 June 2008	16 November 2009
56		S J Mukhopadhaya	16 November 2009	13 September 2011
57		Bhaskar Bhattacharya	13 September 2011	28 September 2014
58		T. S. Thakur	28 September 2014	28 September 2014
59		Bhaskar Bhattacharya	28 September 2014	12 February 2016
60		R. Subhash Reddy	12 February 2016	1 November 2018
61		Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi (Acting)	2 November 2018	14 November 2018
62		Anantkumar Surendraray Dave (Acting)	15 November 2018	10 September 2019
63		Vikram Nath	10 September 2019	30 August 2021
64		Vineet Kothari (Acting)	31 August 2021	1 September 2021
65		Rashmin Manharbhai Chhaya (Acting)	2 September 2021	12 October 2021
66		Aravind Kumar	13 October 2021	12 February 2023
67		Sonia Giridhar Gokani	13 February 2023	25 February 2023
68		Ashish Jitendra Desai (acting)	26 February 2023	21 July 2023
69		Sunita Agarwal	23 July 2023	Incumbent

References

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