List of current Indian chief justices

Last updated December 20, 2024

The Indian judiciary consists of the Supreme Court of India, which is the highest court in the country and the constituent courts. The Supreme Court serves as the final court of appeal for all civil and criminal cases in India and consists of 33 judges headed by the Chief Justice of India.^[1] The High Courts are the top judicial bodies in individual states, controlled and managed by Chief Justices of the respective courts. There are 25 High Courts in the country with seven of them having multiple jurisdictions. The High Courts manage a system of sub-ordinate courts headed by the various District and Session Courts in their respective jurisdictions. As per the Constitution of India, the Chief Justice, the other judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts are appointed by the President of India.^[2]

List of chief justices

Chief Justice of India ^[3]
Court	Name	Image	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Appointed By
Supreme Court of India (list)	Sanjiv Khanna		11 November 2024 (38 days)	13 May 2025 (−145 days)	Droupadi Murmu

Chief Justices of High Courts^[4]
Court	Jurisdiction	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Appointed By
Allahabad High Court	Uttar Pradesh	Arun Bhansali	5 February 2024 (318 days)	14 October 2029 (−4 years, 299 days)	Droupadi Murmu
Andhra Pradesh High Court	Andhra Pradesh	Dhiraj Singh Thakur	28 July 2023 (1 year, 144 days)	24 April 2026 (−1 year, 126 days)
Bombay High Court (list)	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Goa, Maharashtra	Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya	29 July 2023 (1 year, 143 days)	15 June 2027 (−2 years, 178 days)
Calcutta High Court	Andaman and Nicobar, West Bengal	T. S. Sivagnanam	11 May 2023 (1 year, 222 days)	15 September 2025 (−270 days)
Chhattisgarh High Court	Chhattisgarh	Ramesh Sinha	29 March 2023 (1 year, 265 days)	4 September 2026 (−1 year, 259 days)
Delhi High Court	Delhi	Vibhu Bakhru ^†	5 December 2024 (14 days)	1 November 2028 (−3 years, 318 days)
Gauhati High Court	Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram, Nagaland	Vijay Bishnoi	5 February 2024 (318 days)	25 March 2026 (−1 year, 96 days)
Gujarat High Court (list)	Gujarat	Sunita Agarwal	23 July 2023 (1 year, 149 days)	29 April 2028 (−3 years, 132 days)
Himachal Pradesh High Court (list)	Himachal Pradesh	Tarlok Singh Chauhan ^†	19 October 2024 (61 days)	8 January 2026 (−1 year, 20 days)
Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court	Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh	Tashi Rabstan	27 September 2024 (83 days)	9 April 2025 (−111 days)
Jharkhand High Court	Jharkhand	M. S. Ramachandra Rao	25 September 2024 (85 days)	6 August 2028 (−3 years, 231 days)
Karnataka High Court	Karnataka	Nilay Vipinchandra Anjaria	25 February 2024 (298 days)	22 March 2027 (−2 years, 93 days)
Kerala High Court	Kerala, Lakshadweep	Nitin Madhukar Jamdar	26 September 2024 (84 days)	9 January 2026 (−1 year, 21 days)
Madhya Pradesh High Court	Madhya Pradesh	Suresh Kumar Kait	25 September 2024 (85 days)	23 May 2025 (−155 days)
Madras High Court	Puducherry, Tamil Nadu	Kalpathi Rajendran Shriram	27 September 2024 (83 days)	27 September 2025 (−282 days)
Manipur High Court	Manipur	D. Krishnakumar	22 November 2024 (27 days)	21 May 2025 (−153 days)
Meghalaya High Court	Meghalaya	Indra Prasanna Mukerji	3 October 2024 (77 days)	5 September 2025 (−260 days)
Orissa High Court	Odisha	Chakradhari Sharan Singh	7 February 2024 (316 days)	19 January 2025 (−31 days)
Patna High Court (list)	Bihar	K. Vinod Chandran	29 March 2023 (1 year, 265 days)	24 April 2025 (−126 days)
Punjab and Haryana High Court	Chandigarh, Haryana, Punjab	Sheel Nagu	9 July 2024 (163 days)	31 December 2026 (−2 years, 12 days)
Rajasthan High Court (list)	Rajasthan	Manindra Mohan Shrivastava	6 February 2024 (317 days)	5 March 2026 (−1 year, 76 days)
Sikkim High Court	Sikkim	Biswanath Somadder	12 October 2021 (3 years, 68 days)	14 December 2025 (−360 days)	Ram Nath Kovind
Telangana High Court	Telangana	Alok Aradhe	23 July 2023 (1 year, 149 days)	12 April 2026 (−1 year, 114 days)	Droupadi Murmu
Tripura High Court	Tripura	Aparesh Kumar Singh	17 April 2023 (1 year, 246 days)	6 July 2027 (−2 years, 199 days)
Uttarakhand High Court (list)	Uttarakhand	Manoj Kumar Tiwari ^†	11 October 2024 (69 days)	18 September 2027 (−2 years, 273 days)

^† - acting Chief Justice

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↑ "Rule of law index 2016". Justice Project. Archived from the original on 29 April 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
↑ "Memorandum of procedure of appointment of Supreme Court Judges". Government of India . Archived from the original on 9 March 2024. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
↑ "Justice D.Y. Chandrachud sworn in as 50th Chief Justice of India". The Hindu . 9 November 2022. ISSN 0971-751X . Retrieved 9 November 2022.
↑ List of Chief Justice of the High Court (PDF). Government of India (Report). Retrieved 21 November 2016.

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[1] "Rule of law index 2016". Justice Project. Archived from the original on 29 April 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2018.

[2] "Memorandum of procedure of appointment of Supreme Court Judges". Government of India . Archived from the original on 9 March 2024. Retrieved 5 May 2023.

[3] "Justice D.Y. Chandrachud sworn in as 50th Chief Justice of India". The Hindu . 9 November 2022. ISSN 0971-751X . Retrieved 9 November 2022.

[4] List of Chief Justice of the High Court (PDF). Government of India (Report). Retrieved 21 November 2016.

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