List of former judges of the Supreme Court of India

For sitting justices of the Supreme Court of India, see List of sitting judges of the Supreme Court of India.

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The following is a list of former Judges of the Supreme Court of India since its inception on 26 January 1950. A total of 249 judges have served in the court (excluding sitting judges). The list has been arranged on the basis of date of retirement with Chief Justices mentioned first.

Former chief justices

Sr.No.	Portrait	Name of the Chief Justice	Date of appointment	Date of appointment as CJI	Date of retirement	Tenure Length	Tenure Length as CJI
1		H. J. Kania	26 January 1950	26 January 1950	6 November 1951	1 year, 284 days	1 year, 284 days
2		M. Patanjali Sastri	26 January 1950	7 November 1951	3 January 1954	3 years, 342 days	2 years, 57 days
3		Mehr Chand Mahajan	26 January 1950	4 January 1954	22 December 1954	4 years, 330 days	352 days
4		Bijan Kumar Mukherjea	26 January 1950	23 December 1954	31 January 1956	6 years, 5 days	1 year, 39 days
5		Sudhi Ranjan Das	26 January 1950	1 February 1956	30 September 1959	9 years, 247 days	3 years, 241 days
6		Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha	3 December 1954	1 October 1959	31 January 1964	9 years, 59 days	4 years, 122 days
7		P. B. Gajendragadkar	17 January 1957	1 February 1964	15 March 1966	9 years, 57 days	2 years, 42 days
8		Amal Kumar Sarkar	4 March 1957	16 March 1966	29 June 1966	9 years, 117 days	105 days
9		Koka Subba Rao	31 January 1958	30 June 1966	11 April 1967‡	9 years, 70 days	285 days
10		Kailas Nath Wanchoo	11 August 1958	12 April 1967	24 February 1968	9 years, 197 days	318 days
11		Mohammad Hidayatullah [1]	1 December 1958	25 February 1968	16 December 1970	12 years, 15 days	2 years, 294 days
12		Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah	12 October 1959	17 December 1970	21 January 1971	11 years, 101 days	35 days
13		S.M. Sikri	3 February 1964	22 January 1971	25 April 1973	9 years, 81 days	2 years, 93 days
14		A. N. Ray	1 August 1969	26 April 1973	27 January 1977	7 years, 179 days	3 years, 276 days
15		Mirza Hameedullah Beg	10 December 1971	29 January 1977	21 February 1978	6 years, 73 days	1 year, 23 days
16		Y. V. Chandrachud	28 August 1972	22 February 1978	11 July 1985	12 years, 317 days	7 years, 139 days
17		P. N. Bhagwati	17 July 1973	12 July 1985	20 December 1986	13 years, 156 days	1 year, 161 days
18		Raghunandan Swarup Pathak	20 February 1978	21 December 1986	18 June 1989	11 years, 118 days	2 years, 179 days
19		Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah	8 March 1979	19 June 1989	17 December 1989	10 years, 284 days	181 days
20		Sabyasachi Mukherjee	15 March 1983	18 December 1989	25 September 1990	7 years, 194 days	281 days
21		Ranganath Misra	15 March 1983	26 September 1990	24 November 1991	8 years, 254 days	1 year, 59 days
22		Kamal Narain Singh	10 March 1986	25 November 1991	12 December 1991	5 years, 277 days	17 days
23		Madhukar Hiralal Kania	1 May 1987	13 December 1991	17 November 1992	5 years, 200 days	340 days
24		Lalit Mohan Sharma	5 October 1987	18 November 1992	11 February 1993	5 years, 129 days	85 days
25		M. N. Venkatachaliah	5 October 1987	12 February 1993	24 October 1994	7 years, 19 days	1 year, 254 days
26		Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi	14 December 1988	25 October 1994	24 March 1997	8 years, 100 days	2 years, 150 days
27		J. S. Verma	3 June 1989	25 March 1997	17 January 1998	8 years, 228 days	298 days
28		Madan Mohan Punchhi	6 October 1989	18 January 1998	9 October 1998	9 years, 3 days	264 days
29		Adarsh Sein Anand	18 November 1991	10 October 1998	31 October 2001	9 years, 347 days	3 years, 21 days
30		Sam Piroj Bharucha	1 July 1992	1 November 2001	5 May 2002	9 years, 308 days	185 days
31		Bhupinder Nath Kirpal	11 September 1995	6 May 2002	7 November 2002	7 years, 57 days	185 days
32		Gopal Ballav Pattanaik	11 September 1995	8 November 2002	18 December 2002	7 years, 98 days	40 days
33		Vishweshwar Nath Khare	21 March 1997	19 December 2002	1 May 2004	7 years, 41 days	1 year, 134 days
34		S. Rajendra Babu	25 September 1997	2 May 2004	31 May 2004	6 years, 249 days	29 days
35		Ramesh Chandra Lahoti	9 December 1998	1 June 2004	31 October 2005	6 years, 326 days	1 year, 152 days
36		Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal	28 January 2000	1 November 2005	13 January 2007	6 years, 350 days	1 year, 73 days
37		K. G. Balakrishnan	8 June 2000	14 January 2007	12 May 2010	9 years, 338 days	3 years, 118 days
38		S. H. Kapadia	18 December 2003	12 May 2010	28 September 2012	8 years, 285 days	2 years, 139 days
39		Altamas Kabir	9 September 2005	29 September 2012	18 July 2013	7 years, 312 days	292 days
40		P. Sathasivam	21 August 2007	19 July 2013	26 April 2014	6 years, 248 days	281 days
41		Rajendra Mal Lodha	17 December 2008	27 April 2014	27 September 2014	5 years, 284 days	153 days
42		H. L. Dattu	17 December 2008	28 September 2014	2 December 2015	6 years, 350 days	1 year, 65 days
43		T. S. Thakur	17 November 2009	3 December 2015	3 January 2017	7 years, 47 days	1 year, 31 days
44		Jagdish Singh Khehar	13 September 2011	4 January 2017	27 August 2017	5 years, 348 days	235 days
45		Dipak Misra	10 October 2011	28 August 2017	2 October 2018	6 years, 357 days	1 year, 35 days
46		Ranjan Gogoi	23 April 2012	3 October 2018	17 November 2019	7 years, 208 days	1 year, 45 days
47		Sharad Arvind Bobde	12 April 2013	18 November 2019	23 April 2021	8 years, 11 days	1 year, 156 days
48		N. V. Ramana	17 February 2014	24 April 2021	26 August 2022	8 years, 190 days	1 year, 124 days
49		Uday Umesh Lalit	13 August 2014	27 August 2022	8 November 2022	8 years, 87 days	73 days
50		Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud	13 May 2016	9 November 2022	10 November 2024	8 years, 181 days	2 years, 1 day
51		Sanjiv Khanna	18 January 2019	11 November 2024	13 May 2025	6 years, 115 days	183 days

Former judges including CJIs

Key RES Resigned † Died in office

Name	Date of appointment	Date of retirement	Tenure length	Remarks
Fazl Ali [2]	26 January 1950	18 September 1951	1 year, 236 days	5th CJ of Patna HC
Harilal Jekisundas Kania (CJI)	26 January 1950	6 November 1951 [†]	1 year, 285 days
Nagapudi Chandrasekhara Aiyar [3]	23 September 1950	24 January 1953	2 years, 124 days
Mandakolathur Patanjali Sastri (CJI)	26 January 1950	3 January 1954	3 years, 343 days
Ghulam Hasan	8 September 1952	5 November 1954 [†]	2 years, 59 days
Mehr Chand Mahajan (CJI)	26 January 1950	22 December 1954	4 years, 331 days
Bijan Kumar Mukherjea (CJI)	26 January 1950	31 January 1956	6 years, 6 days
Vivian Bose [4]	5 March 1951	8 June 1956	5 years, 96 days	CJ of erstwhile Nagpur HC
Parakulangara Govinda Menon	1 September 1956	16 October 1957 [†]	1 year, 46 days
Bachu Jagannadha Das	9 March 1953	26 July 1958	5 years, 140 days	2nd CJ of Orissa HC
Tirunelveli Lakshmanasuri Venkatarama Iyer	4 January 1954	24 November 1958	4 years, 325 days
Natwarlal Harilal Bhagwati	8 September 1952	6 June 1959	6 years, 272 days
Sudhi Ranjan Das (CJI)	26 January 1950	30 September 1959	9 years, 248 days	2nd CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
Jeevan Lal Kapur	14 January 1957	12 December 1962	5 years, 333 days
Sudhansu Kumar Das	30 April 1956	2 September 1963	7 years, 126 days	11th CJ of Patna HC
Syed Jaffer Imam	10 January 1955	31 January 1964 [RES]	9 years, 22 days	10th CJ of Patna HC
Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha (CJI)	3 December 1954	31 January 1964	9 years, 60 days	CJ of erstwhile Nagpur HC
Narsimha Rajagopala Ayyangar	27 July 1960	14 December 1964	4 years, 141 days
Kulada Charan Das Gupta	29 August 1959	2 January 1965	5 years, 132 days	12th CJ of Calcutta HC
Raghubar Dayal	27 July 1960	25 October 1965	5 years, 91 days
Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar (CJI)	17 January 1957	15 March 1966	9 years, 58 days
Penmetsa Satyanarayana Raju	20 October 1965	20 April 1966 [†]	183 days	CJ of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh HC
Amal Kumar Sarkar (CJI)	4 March 1957	29 June 1966	9 years, 118 days
Janardan Rangnath Mudholkar	3 October 1960	3 July 1966	5 years, 274 days
Koka Subba Rao (CJI)	31 January 1958	11 April 1967 [RES]	9 years, 71 days	CJ of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh HC
Kailas Nath Wanchoo (CJI)	11 August 1958	24 February 1968	9 years, 198 days	2nd CJ of Rajasthan HC
Ranadhir Singh Bachawat	7 September 1964	31 July 1969	4 years, 328 days
Vaidyanathier Ramaswami	4 January 1965	30 October 1969	4 years, 300 days	12th CJ of Patna HC
Mohammad Hidayatullah (CJI)	1 December 1958	16 December 1970	12 years, 16 days	1st CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah (CJI)	12 October 1959	21 January 1971	11 years, 102 days
Vashishtha Bhargava	8 August 1966	4 February 1971	4 years, 181 days	17th CJ of Allahabad HC
Gopendra Krishna Mitter	29 August 1966	23 September 1971	5 years, 26 days
Subimal Chandra Roy	19 July 1971	12 November 1971 [†]	117 days
C. A. Vaidyialingam	10 October 1966	29 June 1972	5 years, 264 days
Inder Dev Dua	1 August 1969	3 October 1972	3 years, 64 days	2nd CJ of Delhi HC
Sarv Mittra Sikri (CJI)	3 February 1964	25 April 1973	9 years, 82 days
Jaishanker Manilal Shelat	24 February 1966	30 April 1973 [RES]	7 years, 66 days	3rd CJ of Gujarat HC
Kowdoor Sadananda Hegde	17 July 1967	30 April 1973 [RES]	5 years, 288 days	1st CJ of Delhi HC
Amar Nath Grover	11 February 1968	31 May 1973 [RES]	5 years, 110 days
Arun Kumar Mukherjea	14 August 1972	23 October 1973 [†]	1 year, 71 days
Devidas Ganpat Palekar	19 July 1971	3 September 1974	3 years, 47 days
Surendra Narayan Dwivedi	14 August 1972	8 December 1974 [†]	2 years, 117 days
Pingle Jaganmohan Reddy	1 August 1969	22 January 1975	5 years, 175 days	CJ of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh HC
A. Alagiriswami	17 October 1972	16 October 1975	3 years, 0 days
Kuttyil Kurien Mathew	4 October 1971	2 January 1976	4 years, 91 days
Ajit Nath Ray (CJI)	1 August 1969	27 January 1977	7 years, 180 days
Hans Raj Khanna	22 September 1971	11 March 1977 [RES]	5 years, 171 days	3rd CJ of Delhi HC
Parbati Kumar Goswami	10 September 1973	31 December 1977	4 years, 113 days	9th CJ of Gauhati HC
Mirza Hameedullah Beg (CJI)	10 December 1971	21 February 1978	6 years, 74 days	1st CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC
Jaswant Singh	23 January 1976	24 January 1979	3 years, 2 days	9th CJ of Jammu & Kashmir HC
Nand Lall Untwalia	3 October 1974	31 July 1980	5 years, 303 days	16th CJ of Patna HC
Palapatti Sadaya Goundar Kailasam	3 January 1977	11 September 1980	3 years, 253 days	17th CJ of Madras HC
Prakash Narayan Shinghal	6 November 1975	14 October 1980	4 years, 344 days	9th CJ of Rajasthan HC
V. R. Krishna Iyer	17 July 1973	14 November 1980	7 years, 121 days
Ranjit Singh Sarkaria	17 September 1973	15 January 1981	7 years, 121 days
Alak Chandra Gupta	2 September 1974	31 December 1981	7 years, 121 days
Anand Dev Koshal	17 July 1978	6 March 1982	3 years, 233 days	11th CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
Baharul Islam [5]	4 December 1980	12 January 1983 [RES]	2 years, 40 days	13th CJ of Gauhati HC
Dhirajlal Ambelal Desai	30 September 1977	8 May 1985	7 years, 221 days
Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud (CJI)	28 August 1972	11 July 1985	12 years, 318 days
Appajee Varadarajan	10 December 1980	16 August 1985	4 years, 250 days
Syed Murtaza Fazl Ali [6]	2 April 1975	20 August 1985 [†]	10 years, 141 days	8th CJ of Jammu & Kashmir HC
Amarendra Nath Sen	28 January 1981	30 September 1985	4 years, 246 days	18th CJ of Calcutta HC
V. D. Tulzapurkar	30 September 1977	9 March 1986	8 years, 161 days
Dinshah Pirosha Madon	15 March 1983	6 April 1986	3 years, 23 days	21st CJ of Bombay HC
Ram Briksha Misra	30 January 1981	15 June 1986	5 years, 137 days
Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati (CJI)	17 July 1973	20 December 1986	13 years, 157 days	5th CJ of Gujarat HC
Vettath Balakrishna Eradi	30 January 1981	18 June 1987	6 years, 140 days	9th CJ of Kerala HC
Vazhakkulangarayil Khalid	25 June 1984	30 June 1987	3 years, 6 days	13th CJ of Jammu & Kashmir HC
Ontethupalli Chinnappa Reddy	17 July 1978	24 September 1987	9 years, 70 days
Ananda Prakash Sen	17 July 1978	19 September 1988	10 years, 65 days	7th CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar	15 March 1983	3 November 1988	5 years, 234 days	8th CJ of Gujarat HC
Raghunandan Swarup Pathak (CJI)	20 February 1978	18 June 1989 [RES]	11 years, 119 days	2nd CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC
Sivasankar Natarajan	10 March 1986	28 October 1989	3 years, 233 days
Murari Mohan Dutt [7]	10 March 1986	29 October 1989	3 years, 234 days
Goverdhan Lal Oza	29 October 1985	11 December 1989	4 years, 44 days	9th CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah (CJI)	8 March 1979	17 December 1989	10 years, 285 days
Sabyasachi Mukherjee (CJI)	15 March 1983	25 September 1990 [†]	7 years, 195 days
Narayan Dutta Ojha	18 January 1988	18 January 1991	3 years, 1 day	11th CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
Khagendra Nath Saika	14 December 1988	28 February 1991	2 years, 77 days	18th CJ of Gauhati HC
Bankim Chandra Ray	29 October 1985	31 October 1991	6 years, 3 days
Ranganath Misra (CJI)	15 March 1983	24 November 1991	8 years, 255 days	10th CJ of Orissa HC
Kamal Narain Singh (CJI)	10 March 1986	12 December 1991	5 years, 278 days
Kalmanje Jagannatha Shetty	1 May 1987	14 December 1991	4 years, 228 days	26th CJ of Allahabad HC
Fathima Beevi [8]	6 October 1989	29 April 1992	2 years, 207 days
Radha Charan Patnaik	3 December 1991	30 May 1992 [†]	180 days
Srinivasachar Ranganathan	5 October 1987	30 October 1992	5 years, 26 days
Madhukar Hiralal Kania (CJI)	1 May 1987	17 November 1992	5 years, 201 days	24th CJ of Bombay HC
Lalit Mohan Sharma (CJI)	5 October 1987	11 February 1993	5 years, 130 days
Narendra Mohan Kasliwal [9]	6 October 1989	3 April 1993	3 years, 180 days	6th CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC
T. Kochu Thommen	14 December 1988	25 September 1993	4 years, 286 days
Veeraswami Ramaswami	6 October 1989	14 February 1994	4 years, 132 days	16th CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
S. Ratnavel Pandian	14 December 1988	12 March 1994	5 years, 89 days
K. Jayachandra Reddy	11 January 1990	14 July 1994	4 years, 185 days
Yogeshwar Dayal	22 March 1991	2 August 1994 [†]	3 years, 134 days	13th CJ of Delhi HC
Manepalli Narayanarao Venkatachaliah (CJI)	5 October 1987	24 October 1994	7 years, 20 days
Shanmughasundaram Mohan	7 October 1991	10 February 1995	3 years, 127 days	23rd CJ of Madras HC 12th CJ of Karnataka HC
R. M. Sahai	11 January 1990	24 June 1995	5 years, 165 days
P. B. Sawant [10]	6 October 1989	29 June 1995	5 years, 267 days
Nanje Gowda Venkatachala	1 July 1992	2 July 1995	3 years, 2 days
Kuldip Singh [11]	14 December 1988	21 December 1996	8 years, 8 days
Banwari Lal Hansaria	14 December 1993	24 December 1996	3 years, 11 days	13th CJ of Orissa HC
Nagendra Prasad Singh	15 June 1992	24 December 1996	4 years, 193 days	26th CJ of Calcutta HC
Faizanuddin	14 December 1993	4 February 1997	3 years, 53 days
B. P. Jeevan Reddy	7 October 1991	13 March 1997	5 years, 158 days	30th CJ of Allahabad HC
Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi (CJI)	14 December 1988	24 March 1997	8 years, 101 days
Krishnaswami Sundara Paripoornan	11 June 1994	11 June 1997	3 years, 1 day	25th CJ of Patna HC
K. Ramaswamy	6 October 1989	12 July 1997	7 years, 280 days
Suhas C. Sen	11 June 1994	20 December 1997	3 years, 193 days
Jagdish Sharan Verma (CJI)	3 June 1989	17 January 1998	8 years, 229 days	10th CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC 16th CJ of Rajasthan HC
Ganendra Narayan Ray [12]	7 October 1991	30 April 1998	6 years, 206 days	11th CJ of Gujarat HC
S. C. Agrawal	11 January 1990	4 September 1998	8 years, 237 days
Madan Mohan Punchhi (CJI)	6 October 1989	9 October 1998	9 years, 4 days
Manoj Kumar Mukherjee	14 December 1993	30 November 1998	4 years, 352 days	31st CJ of Allahabad HC 27th ChJ of Bombay HC
Sujata Manohar [13]	8 November 1994	27 August 1999	4 years, 293 days	28th CJ of Bombay HC 14th CJ of Kerala HC
Konduswami Venkataswamy	6 March 1995	18 September 1999	4 years, 197 days	26th CJ of Patna HC
Sudhakar Panditrao Kurdukar [14]	29 March 1996	15 January 2000	3 years, 293 days	22nd CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
Girish Thakorlal Nanavati	6 March 1995	16 February 2000	4 years, 348 days	14th CJ of Orissa HC 15th CJ of Karnataka HC
Madhavachari Srinivasan	25 September 1997	25 February 2000 [†]	2 years, 154 days	13th CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC
Devinder Pratap Wadhwa	21 March 1997	4 May 2000	3 years, 45 days	28th CJ of Patna HC
Saiyed Saghir Ahmad	6 March 1995	30 June 2000	5 years, 117 days	17th CJ of Jammu & Kashmir HC
Shailesh Bhadrayulal Majumdar	19 September 1994	19 August 2000	5 years, 336 days	14th CJ of Karnataka HC
Mamidanna Jagannadha Rao	21 March 1997	1 December 2000	3 years, 256 days	13th CJ of Kerala HC 17th CJ of Delhi HC
Ajay Prakash Misra	4 December 1997	31 August 2001	3 years, 271 days	18th CJ of Delhi HC
Adarsh Sein Anand (CJI)	18 November 1991	31 October 2001	9 years, 348 days	14th CJ of Jammu & Kashmir HC 24th CJ of Madras HC
Thomas Kallupurackal Thomas	29 March 1996	30 January 2002	5 years, 308 days
Sailendu Nath Phukan	28 January 1999	31 March 2002	3 years, 63 days	6th CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC 16th CJ of Orissa HC
Sam Piroj Bharucha (CJI)	1 July 1992	5 May 2002	9 years, 309 days	13th CJ of Karnataka HC
Ram Prakash Sethi [15]	8 January 1999	6 July 2002	3 years, 180 days	18th CJ of Karnataka HC
Deba Priya Mohapatra	9 December 1998	2 August 2002	3 years, 237 days	34th CJ of Allahabad HC
Bhupinder Nath Kirpal (CJI)	11 September 1995	7 November 2002	7 years, 58 days	13th CJ of Gujarat HC
Umesh Chandra Banerjee [16]	9 December 1998	17 November 2002	3 years, 344 days	CJ of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh HC
Gopal Ballav Pattanaik (CJI)	11 September 1995	18 December 2002	7 years, 99 days	27th CJ of Patna HC
Syed Shah Mohammed Quadri [17]	4 December 1997	5 April 2003	5 years, 123 days
Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah	9 December 1998	24 September 2003	4 years, 290 days	30th CJ of Bombay HC
Vishweshwar Nath Khare (CJI)	21 March 1997	1 May 2004	7 years, 42 days	29th CJ of Calcutta HC
S. Rajendra Babu (CJI)	25 September 1997	31 May 2004	6 years, 250 days
Brijesh Kumar	19 October 2000	9 June 2004	3 years, 235 days	25th CJ of Gauhati HC
Doraiswamy Raju	28 January 2000	1 July 2004	4 years, 156 days	15th CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC
Shivaraj Virupanna Patil	15 March 2000	11 January 2005	4 years, 303 days	21st CJ of Rajasthan HC
N. Santosh Hegde [18]	8 January 1999	16 June 2005	6 years, 160 days
P. Venkatarama Reddi	17 August 2001	9 August 2005	3 years, 358 days	20th CJ of Karnataka HC
Devdatta Madhav Dharmadhikari	5 March 2002	13 August 2005	3 years, 162 days	17th CJ of Gujarat HC
Ramesh Chandra Lahoti (CJI)	9 December 1998	31 October 2005	6 years, 327 days
Sam Nariman Variava	15 March 2000	7 November 2005	5 years, 238 days	19th CJ of Delhi HC
Arun Kumar	3 October 2002	11 April 2006	5 years, 191 days	23rd CJ of Rajasthan HC
Bellur Narayanswamy Srikrishna	3 October 2002	20 May 2006	5 years, 230 days	21st CJ of Kerala HC
Ruma Pal	28 January 2000	3 June 2006	6 years, 127 days
Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal (CJI)	28 January 2000	13 January 2007	6 years, 351 days	31st CJ of Bombay HC
Arunachalam R. Lakshmanan	20 December 2002	21 March 2007	4 years, 92 days	22nd CJ of Rajasthan HC
Bisheshwar Prasad Singh	14 December 2001	8 July 2007	5 years, 207 days	32nd CJ of Bombay HC
Perubhemba Krishna Ayer Balasubramanyan	27 August 2004	27 August 2007	3 years, 1 day	19th CJ of Orissa HC 2nd CJ of Jharkhand HC
Govind Prasad Mathur	20 December 2002	19 January 2008	5 years, 31 days
H. K. Sema	9 April 2002	1 June 2008	6 years, 54 days	21st CJ of Jammu & Kashmir HC
Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar	27 August 2004	29 June 2008	3 years, 308 days	28th CJ of Gauhati HC
Ashok Kumar Mathur	7 June 2004	7 August 2008	4 years, 62 days	15th CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC 31st CJ of Calcutta HC
Ashok Bhan	17 June 2001	2 October 2008	7 years, 108 days
Chunilal Karsandas Thakker	7 June 2004	10 November 2008	4 years, 157 days	16th CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC 33rd CJ of Bombay HC
Lokeshwar Singh Panta	3 February 2006	23 September 2009	3 years, 80 days
Arijit Pasayat	19 October 2001	10 May 2009	7 years, 204 days	18th CJ of Kerala HC 20th CJ of Delhi HC
Satyabrata Sinha	3 October 2002	8 August 2009	6 years, 341 days	21st CJ of Delhi HC
Biswanath Agrawal	19 October 2000	15 October 2009	8 years, 362 days	17th CJ of Orissa HC
Tarun Chatterjee	27 August 2004	14 January 2010	5 years, 141 days	37th CJ of Allahabad HC
Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan (CJI)	8 June 2000	12 May 2010	9 years, 339 days	16th CJ of Gujarat HC 29th CJ of Madras HC
Buchireddy Sudershan Reddy	12 January 2007	7 July 2011	4 years, 177 days	30th CJ of Gauhati HC
Vikas Sridhar Sirpurkar	12 January 2007	21 August 2011	4 years, 228 days	3rd CJ of Uttarakhand HC 32nd CJ of Calcutta HC
Harjit Singh Bedi	12 January 2007	4 September 2011	4 years, 236 days	36th CJ of Bombay HC
Mukundakam Sharma	9 April 2008	17 September 2011	3 years, 162 days	24th CJ of Delhi HC
Markandey Katju	10 April 2006	19 September 2011	5 years, 163 days	32nd CJ of Madras HC 23rd CJ of Delhi HC
Jagdish Madhurlal Panchal	12 November 2007	5 October 2011	3 years, 328 days	26th CJ of Rajasthan HC
Raju Varadarajulu Raveendran	9 September 2005	15 October 2011	6 years, 37 days	18th CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
Cyriac Joseph [19]	7 July 2008	27 January 2012	3 years, 205 days	4th CJ of Uttarakhand HC 23rd CJ of Karnataka HC
Asok Kumar Ganguly	17 December 2008	3 February 2012	3 years, 49 days	21st CJ of Orissa HC 34th CJ of Madras HC
Dalveer Bhandari [20]	28 October 2005	27 April 2012 [RES]	6 years, 183 days	34th CJ of Bombay HC
Deepak Verma	11 May 2009	28 August 2012	3 years, 110 days	28th CJ of Rajasthan HC
Sarosh Homi Kapadia (CJI)	18 December 2003	28 September 2012	8 years, 286 days	2nd CJ of Uttarakhand HC
Swatanter Kumar	18 December 2009	19 December 2012	3 years, 2 days	37th CJ of Bombay HC
Devinder Kumar Jain	10 April 2006	24 January 2013	6 years, 290 days	26th CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
Aftab Alam	12 November 2007	18 April 2013	5 years, 158 days
Altamas Kabir (CJI)	9 September 2005	18 July 2013	7 years, 313 days	3rd CJ of Jharkhand HC
Ganpat Singh Singhvi	12 November 2007	12 December 2013	6 years, 31 days	CJ of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh HC
Hemant Laxman Gokhale	30 April 2010	10 March 2014	3 years, 315 days	39th CJ of Allahabad HC 35th CJ of Madras HC
Palanisamy Sathasivam (CJI)	21 August 2007	26 April 2014	6 years, 249 days
Gyan Sudha Misra [21]	30 April 2010	27 April 2014	3 years, 363 days	6th CJ of Jharkhand HC
Kalavamkodath Sivasankara Panicker Radhakrishnan	17 November 2009	14 May 2014	4 years, 179 days	25th CJ of Jammu & Kashmir HC 21st CJ of Gujarat HC
Ananga Kumar Patnaik	17 November 2009	2 June 2014	4 years, 198 days	4th CJ of Chhattisgarh HC 19th CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
Surinder Singh Nijjar	17 November 2009	6 June 2014	4 years, 202 days	33rd CJ of Calcutta HC
Balbir Singh Chauhan	11 May 2009	1 July 2014	5 years, 52 days	22nd CJ of Orissa HC
Chandramauli Kumar Prasad [22]	8 February 2010	14 July 2014	4 years, 157 days	40th CJ of Allahabad HC
Rajendra Mal Lodha (CJI)	17 December 2008	27 September 2014	5 years, 285 days	33rd CJ of Patna HC
Ranjana Prakash Desai [23]	13 September 2011	29 October 2014	3 years, 47 days
Sudhanshu Joshi Mukhopadhaya	13 September 2011	14 March 2015	3 years, 183 days	22nd CJ of Gujarat HC
Handyala Lakshminarayanaswamy Dattu (CJI)	17 December 2008	2 December 2015	6 years, 351 days	6th CJ of Chhattisgarh HC 27th CJ of Kerala HC
Vikramajit Sen	24 December 2012	30 December 2015	3 years, 7 days	26th CJ of Karnataka HC
M. Y. Eqbal	24 December 2012	12 February 2016	3 years, 51 days	36th CJ of Madras HC
Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla	2 April 2012	22 July 2016	4 years, 112 days	29th CJ of Jammu & Kashmir HC
Chokkalingam Nagappan	19 September 2013	3 October 2016	3 years, 15 days	25th CJ of Orissa HC
Venkate Gopala Gowda	24 December 2012	5 October 2016	3 years, 287 days	24th CJ of Orissa HC
Shiva Kirti Singh	19 September 2013	11 November 2016	3 years, 54 days	43rd CJ of Allahabad HC
Anil Ramesh Dave	30 April 2010	18 November 2016	6 years, 203 days	38th CJ of Bombay HC
Tirath Singh Thakur (CJI)	17 November 2009	3 January 2017	7 years, 48 days	28th CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
Pinaki Chandra Ghose	8 March 2013	27 May 2017	4 years, 81 days	CJ of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh HC
Jagdish Singh Khehar (CJI)	13 September 2011	27 August 2017	5 years, 349 days	7th CJ of Uttarakhand HC 25th CJ of Karnataka HC
Prafulla Chandra Pant	13 August 2014	29 August 2017	3 years, 17 days	2nd CJ of Meghalaya HC
Amitava Roy	27 February 2015	1 March 2018	3 years, 3 days	31st CJ of Rajasthan HC 27tht CJ of Orissa HC
Rajesh Kumar Agrawal	17 February 2014	4 May 2018	4 years, 77 days	37th CJ of Madras HC
Jasti Chelameswar	10 October 2011	22 June 2018	6 years, 256 days	31st CJ of Gauhati HC 29th CJ of Kerala HC
Adarsh Kumar Goel	7 July 2014	6 July 2018	4 years, 0 days	34th CJ of Gauhati HC 26th CJ of Orissa HC
Dipak Misra (CJI)	10 October 2011	2 October 2018	6 years, 358 days	36th CJ of Patna HC 26th CJ of Delhi HC
Kurian Joseph [24]	8 March 2013	29 November 2018	5 years, 267 days	20th CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC
Madan Lokur	4 June 2012	30 December 2018	6 years, 210 days	33rd CJ of Gauhati HC
Arjan Kumar Sikri [25]	12 April 2013	6 March 2019	5 years, 329 days	31st CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
Abhay Manohar Sapre	13 August 2014	27 August 2019	5 years, 15 days	1st CJ of Manipur HC 33rd CJ of Gauhati HC
Ranjan Gogoi (CJI)	23 April 2012	17 November 2019	7 years, 209 days	30th CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
Deepak Gupta	17 February 2017	6 May 2020	3 years, 80 days	1st CJ of Tripura HC 10th CJ of Chhattisgarh HC
R. Banumathi	13 August 2014	19 July 2020	5 years, 342 days	9th CJ of Jharkhand HC
Arun Kumar Mishra	7 July 2014	2 September 2020	6 years, 58 days	30th CJ of Rajasthan HC 36th CJ of Calcutta HC
Indu Malhotra [26]	27 April 2018	13 March 2021	2 years, 321 days
Sharad Arvind Bobde (CJI)	12 April 2013	23 April 2021	8 years, 12 days	21st CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
Mohan Shantanagoudar [27]	17 February 2017	24 April 2021 [†]	4 years, 67 days	32nd CJ of Kerala HC
Ashok Bhushan	13 May 2016	4 July 2021	5 years, 53 days	31st CJ of Kerala HC
Rohinton Fali Nariman	7 July 2014	12 August 2021	7 years, 37 days
Navin Sinha	17 February 2017	18 August 2021	4 years, 183 days	9th CJ of Chhattisgarh HC 34th CJ of Rajasthan HC
Ramayyagari Subhash Reddy	2 November 2018	4 January 2022	3 years, 64 days	24th CJ of Gujarat HC
Vineet Saran	7 August 2018	10 May 2022	3 years, 277 days	29th CJ of Orissa HC
Lavu Nageswara Rao	13 May 2016	7 June 2022	6 years, 26 days
Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar	13 May 2016	29 July 2022	6 years, 78 days	21st CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC 22nd CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana (CJI)	17 February 2014	26 August 2022	8 years, 191 days	28th CJ of Delhi HC
Indira Banerjee	7 August 2018	23 September 2022	4 years, 48 days	39th CJ of Madras HC
Hemant Gupta	2 November 2018	16 October 2022	3 years, 349 days	23rd CJ of Madhya Pradesh HC
Uday Umesh Lalit (CJI)	13 August 2014	8 November 2022	8 years, 88 days
Syed Abdul Nazeer	17 February 2017	4 January 2023	5 years, 322 days
Dinesh Maheshwari	18 January 2019	14 May 2023	4 years, 117 days	4th CJ of Meghalaya HC 29th CJ of Karnataka HC
Mukesh Rasikbhai Shah	2 November 2018	15 May 2023	4 years, 195 days	41st CJ of Patna HC
Kuttiyil Mathew Joseph	7 August 2018	16 June 2023	4 years, 314 days	9th CJ of Uttarakhand HC
Ajay Rastogi	2 November 2018	17 June 2023	4 years, 228 days	3rd CJ of Tripura HC
V. Ramasubramanian	23 September 2019	29 June 2023	3 years, 280 days	24th CJ of Himachal Pradesh HC
Krishna Murari	23 September 2019	8 July 2023	3 years, 289 days	34th CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC
Shripathi Ravindra Bhat	23 September 2019	20 October 2023	4 years, 28 days	36th CJ of Rajasthan HC
Sanjay Kishan Kaul	17 February 2017	25 December 2023	6 years, 312 days	32nd CJ of Punjab & Haryana HC 38th CJ of Madras HC
Aniruddha Bose	24 May 2019	10 April 2024	4 years, 323 days	12th CJ of Jharkhand HC
Ajjikuttira Somaiah Bopanna	24 May 2019	19 May 2024	4 years, 362 days	37th CJ of Gauhati HC
Hima Kohli	31 August 2021	1 September 2024	3 years, 2 days	3rd CJ of Telangana HC
Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud (CJI)	13 May 2016	10 November 2024	8 years, 182 days	44th CJ of Allahabad HC
Chudalayil Thevan Ravikumar	31 August 2021	5 January 2025	3 years, 128 days
Hrishikesh Roy	23 September 2019	31 January 2025	5 years, 251 days	35th CJ of Kerala HC
Sanjiv Khanna (CJI)	18 January 2019	13 May 2025	6 years, 116 days
Abhay Shreeniwas Oka	31 August 2021	24 May 2025	3 years, 267 days	30th CJ of Karnataka HC
Bela Trivedi	31 August 2021	9 June 2025	3 years, 283 days
Sudhanshu Dhulia	9 May 2022	9 August 2025	3 years, 93 days	39th CJ of Gauhati HC

See also

• List of chief justices of India
• List of sitting judges of the Supreme Court of India
• List of female judges of the Supreme Court of India

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External links

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