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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.
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 |
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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 |
Name | Date of appointment | Date of retirement | Tenure length | Remarks |
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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 |
Balkrishna Sudarshan 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 |