List of chief justices of the Himachal Pradesh High Court

Himachal Pradesh High Court
Established	1971
Jurisdiction	Himachal Pradesh
Location	Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
Composition method	Presidential appointment with confirmation of Chief Justice of India and Governor of respective state.
Authorised by	Constitution of India
Appeals to	Supreme Court of India
Judge term length	Mandatory Retirement by age of 62
Number of positions	13
Website	hphighcourt.nic.in
Chief Justice
Currently	M. S. Ramachandra Rao
Since	30 May 2023

The Himachal Pradesh High Court is the High Court of the state of Himachal Pradesh.

Chief Justice

On 14 October 2021, Justice Mohammad Rafiq took oath as the chief justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court. ^[1]

List of Chief Justices

List

#	Picture	Chief Justice	Took office	Left office
1		Sir Henry Meredyth Plowden	1880	1895
2		Sir Charles Arthur Roe	1895	1898
3		Sir William Ovens Clark	1898	1909
4		Sir Arthur Hay Stewart Reid	1909	1914
5		Sir Alfred Kensington	1914	1915
6		Sir Donald Campbell Johnstone	1915	1917
7		Sir Henry Adolphus Rattigan	1917	1919
8		Sir Shadi Lal	1920	1934
9		Sir John Douglas Young	1934	1943
10		Sir Arthur Trevor Harries	1943	1946
11		Sir Abdul Rashid	1946	1947
12		Justice Ram Lall	15 August 1947	18 January 1949
13		Justice Sudhi Ranjan Das	19 January 1949	21 January 1950
14		Justice Eric Weston	21 January 1950	8 December 1952
15		Justice Amar Nath Bandhari	9 December 1952	18 November 1959
16		Justice Gopal Das Ghosla	19 November 1959	14 December 1961
17		Justice Donald Falshaw	15 December 1961	29 May 1966 (Res)
18		Justice Mehar Singh	29 May 1966	continued
18		Justice Mehar Singh	continued	14 August 1970
19		Justice Harbans Singh	15 August 1970	25 January 1971
20		Justice Daya Krishan Mahajan	25 January 1971	25 January 1971
21		M.H. Beg	25 January 1971	9 December 1971
22		R.S. Pathak	18 March 1972	19 February 1978
23		T.U. Mehta	20 February 1978	11 December 1979
24		V.D. Misra	12 December 1979	30 September 1983
25		Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai	23 December 1983	13 November 1988
26		Narendra Mohan Kasliwal	29 March 1989	5 October 1989
27		P.C.B. Menon	6 November 1989	14 January 1991
28		Leila Seth	5 August 1991	20 October 1992
29		Shashi Kant Seth	22 June 1993	28 August 1993
30		Viswanathan Ratnam	29 January 1994	1 August 1994
31		G.C. Gupta	17 September 1994	1 March 1995
32		Sailendu Nath Phukan	1 March 1995	1 August 1996
33		Madhavachari Srinivasan	1 August 1996	24 September 1997
34		Makani Narayana Rao	6 November 1997	22 April 1998
35		Doraiswamy Raju	1 July 1998	28 January 2000
36		C.K. Thakker	5 May 2000	30 December 2001
37		W.A. Shishak	24 January 2002	1 January 2003
38		Vinod Kumar Gupta	8 March 2003	2 February 2008
39		Jagadish Bhalla	2 February 2008	7 August 2009
40		Kurian Joseph	8 February 2010	6 March 2013
41		A.M. Khanwilkar	5 April 2013	24 November 2013
42		Mansoor Ahmad Mir [2]	18 June 2014	24 April 2017
43		Surya Kant [3]	5 October 2018	23 May 2019
44		V. Ramasubramanian	22 June 2019	22 September 2019
45		Lingappa Narayana Swamy	6 October 2019	30 June 2021
46		Mohammad Rafiq	14 October 2021	24 May 2022
47		Amjad Ahtesham Sayed	23 June 2022	20 January 2023
48		M. S. Ramachandra Rao	30 May 2023	24 September 2024
49		Rajiv Shakdher	25 September 2024	18 October 2024
50		Gurmeet Singh Sandhawalia	29 December 2024	Incumbent

References

1. "Justice Sabina takes oath as Chief Justice of Himachal high court | Shimla News". The Times of India .
2. "Governor administers oath to Justice Sanjay Karol as Judge of H P High Court". Shimla Times. Archived from the original on 2 April 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2017.
3. "Surya Kant appointed as CJ of HP high court" (PDF).