Gopal Ballav Pattanaik is an Indian lawyer and later a jurist who served over a period of 19 years in the bench of the Odisha High Court as a permanent judge, as chief justice of the Patna High Court, Judge of the Supreme Court of India and as the 32nd Chief Justice of India.
The Odisha High Court is the High Court for the Indian state of Odisha.
The Karan or Karana is a community found in the state of Odisha in India. The post of Karana used to be a professional designation that was occupied by literate peoples. They held Karanam posts in some parts of Andhra Pradesh, where they speak Odia and played a similar role in Odisha to that of the Kayasthas of West Bengal and Bihar. In the social hierarchy of Odisha they rank next to Brahmins. They exclusively served the ruling powers as their ministers, advisors, governors, military commanders, record keepers and dewans. They owned most Zamindaris in Odisha. They have the highest literacy caste-wise and are highly prosperous. Today they are a politically dominant community and have reigned over the politics of Odisha for 50 years.
Ranganath Misra was the 21st Chief Justice of India, serving from 25 September 1990 to 24 November 1991. He was also the first chairman of the National Human Rights Commission of India. He also served as Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha from the Congress Party between 1998 and 2004. He is the second Supreme court judge to become a Rajya Sabha member after Baharul Islam who was also elected as Indian National Congress member.
Ananga Kumar Patnaik is an Indian jurist and a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Gati Krushna Misra was the seventh Chief Justice of Orissa High Court, from 1 May 1969 to 30 October 1975. On 1 May 1969, he was elevated to the post of Chief Justice of Orissa High Court and worked as such for more than six years.
Sudhansu Kumar Das or S. K. Das was an Indian bureaucrat and Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India.
Pradip Kumar Mohanty is an Indian attorney and Jurist currently serving as a Judicial Member of Lokpal Committee since 23 March 2019. He retired from the post on 23 March 2024. He is former Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court.
Kalpesh Satyendra Jhaveri is an Indian Judge and former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court. He is also former Judge of Rajasthan High Court and Gujarat High Court.
S. Muralidhar is an Indian lawyer and a former Judge. He was the Chief Justice of Orissa High Court and a Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and Delhi High Court. He has been designated as a Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court of India and presently pracising before the Supreme Court of India.
Aruna Suresh is a former judge of the Orissa High Court in India. She also served at the Delhi High Court. She gained public attention after an association of lawyers boycotted her courtroom in Odisha, following her request to a senior counsel to refrain from intervening in a case where he was not involved.
Biswanath N. Agrawal is a former judge at Supreme Court of India. He started as a judge at Patna High Court in November 1986. Later, he was promoted as the Chief Justice at Orissa High Court in November 1999. He got to the Supreme Court of India as a judge on October 19, 2000 and retired in 2009. He opposed National Judicial Commission legislation in 2014 that could move judges from one state to other. He said:
“If Judiciary is finished, democracy will be finished. This bill affects the independence of the judiciary, there is no doubt about it. The way Governors are being transferred to Mizoram, the Chief Justices and judges of the HCs will be transferred to newly created HCs in North East. No judge will be able to pass strong orders."
Lingaraj Panigrahi was an Indian politician and former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court. He is the father of Pramod Panigrahi, former Law Secretary of Government of Odisha.
Satya Bhusan Burman was an Indian judge and former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court.
Sujit Barman Roy was an Indian judge and former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court.
Banwari Lal Hansaria was an Indian Judge and former judge of the Supreme Court of India.
Sanjaya Kumar Mishra is an Indian Judge, who served as the Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court. He was a Judge of Uttarakhand High Court. He has previously served as Acting Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court and Judge of Orissa High Court.
Siba Narain Sankar was an Indian Judge who served as the 8th Chief Justice of Orissa High Court.
Hari Lal Agrawal was an Indian judge and former chief Justice of the Orissa High Court from 1 May 1986 to 31 July 1989.
Khaleel Ahmed is an Indian judge and former Chief Justice of Orissa High Court.
