Chief Justice of India

Chief Justices of India

Image Courtesy : supremecourtofindia.nic.in

The Current Chief Justice of India is Hon'ble Mr. Justice Dipak Misra. His Term of Office is 10-10-2011 to (DoR) 02-10-2018. Born on 03rd October, 1953. He was enrolled as an Advocate on 14th February, 1977 and Practiced in Constitutional, Civil, Criminal, Revenue, Service and Sales Tax matters in the Orissa High Court and the Service Tribunal. He was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Orissa High Court on 17th January, 1996 and transferred to the Madhya Pradesh High Court on 03rd March, 1997. He became permanent Judge on 19th December, 1997. Justice Misra assumed charge of the office of Chief Justice, Patna High Court on 23rd December, 2009 and charge of the office of the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court on 24th May, 2010. Elevated as a Judge, Supreme Court of India w.e.f. 10.10.2011.

Appointed as The Chief Justice of India on 28.08.2017.

He is due to retire from Supreme Court on October 2, 2018.

Click below to know about other important positions/authority of India.
President of India, Vice-President, Prime Minister & Cabinet Ministers of India
Governors & Chief Ministers of the States of India
Chief of Armed Forces of India

Sl. No.	Name	From	To
1	Justice Harilal Jekisundas Kania.	26-01-1950	06-11-1951*
2	Justice M. Patanjali Sastri	07-11-1951	03-01-1954
3	Justice Mehr Chand Mahajan	04-01-1954	22-12-1954
4	Justice Bijan Kumar Mukharjee	23-12-1954	31-01-1956**
5	Justice Sudhi Ranjan Das	01-02-1956	30-09-1959
6	Justice Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha	01-10-1959	31-01-1964
7	Justice P. B. Gajendragadkar	01-02-1964	15-03-1966
8	Justice A. K. Sarkar	16-03-1966	29-06-1966
9	Justice K. Subba Rao	30-06-1966	11-04-1967**
10	Justice K. N. Wanchoo	12-04-1967	24-02-1968
11	Justice M. Hidayatullah	25-02-1968	16-12-1970
12	Justice J. C. Shah	17-12-1970	21-01-1971
13	Justice S. M. Sikri	22-01-1971	25-04-1973
14	Justice A. N. Ray	26-04-1973	28-01-1977
15	Justice M. Hameedullah Beq	29-01-1977	21-02-1978
16	Justice Y. V. Chandrachud	22-02-1978	11-07-1985
17	Justice P. N. Bhagwati	12-07-1985	20-12-1986
18	Justice R. S. Pathak	21-12-1986	18-06-1989**
19	Justice E. S. Venkataramiah	19-06-1989	17-12-1989
20	Justice Sabyasachi Mukharjee	18-12-1989	25-09-1990*
21	Justice Ranganath Misra	25-09-1990	24-11-1991
22	Justice K. N. Singh	25-11-1991	12-12-1991
23	Justice M. H. Kania	13-12-1991	17-11-1992
24	Justice L. M. Sharma	18-11-1992	11-02-1993
25	Justice M. N. Venkatachaliah	12-02-1993	24-10-1994
26	Justice A. M. Ahmadi	25-10-1994	24-03-1997
27	Justice J. S. Verma	25-03-1997	17-01-1998
28	Justice M. M. Punchhi	18-01-1998	09-10-1998
29	Justice A. S. Anand	10-10-1998	31-10-2001
30	Justice S. P. Bharucha	01-11-2001	05-05-2002
31	Justice B. N. Kirpal	06-05-2002	07-11-2002
32	Justice G. B. Pattanaik	08-11-2002	18-12-2002
33	Justice V. N. Khare	19-12-2002	01-05-2004
34	Justice S. Rajendra Babu	02-05-2004	31-05-2004
35	Justice R. C. Lahoti	01-06-2004	31-10-2005
36	Justice Y. K. Sabharwal	01-11-2005	13-01-2007
37	Justice K. G. Balakrishnan	14-01-2007	11-05-2010
38	Justice S. H. Kapadia	12-05-2010	28-09-2012
39	Justice Altamas Kabir	29-09-2012	18-07-2013
40	Justice P. Sathasivam	19-07-2013	26-04-2014
41	Justice R. M. Lodha	27-04-2014	27-09-2014
42	Justice H. L. Dattu	28-09-2014	02-12-2015
43.	Justice T. S. Thakur	03-12-2015	03-01-2017
44.	Justice Dipak Misra	28-08-2017	Till Now

* Date of Death
** Date of Resignation