List of 48 Chief Justices of India

Constitutional Law

There are a total of 48 chief justices of India that have served since the establishment of the Supreme Court of India in 1950, which superseded the Federal Court of India. The current Incumbent and 48th chief justice of India is Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana, who entered office on 24 April 2021. Based on the convention of seniority, the seven next chief justices can be predicted.

NameTenure
Harilal J. Kania26 January 1950 – 6 November 1951
M. Patanjali Sastri7 November 1951 – 3 January 1954
Mehar Chand Mahajan4 January 1954 – 22 December 1954
B.K. Mukherjea23 December 1954 – 31 January 1956
S.R. Das01 February 1956 – 30 September 1959
Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha1 October 1959 – 31 January 1964
P.B. Gajendragadkar1 February 1964 – 15 March 1966
A.K. Sarkar16 March 1966 – 29 June 1966
K. Subba Rao30 June 1966 – 11 April 1967
K.N. Wanchoo12 April 1967 – 24 February 1968
M. Hidayatullah25 February 1968 – 16 December 1970
I.C. Shah17 December 1970 – 21 January 1971
S.M. Sikri22 January 1971 – 25 April 1973
A.N. Ray26 April 1973 – 27 January 1977
M.H. Beg28 January 1977 – 21 February 1978
Y.V. Chandrachud22 February 1978 – 11 July 1985
P.N. Bhagwati12 July 1985 – 20 December 1986
R.S. Pathak21 December 1986 – 18 June 1989
E.S. Venkataramaiah19 June 1989 – 17 December 1989
S. Mukherjee18 December 1989 – 25 September 1990
Ranganath Mishra26 September 1990 – 24 November 1991
K.N. Singh25 November 1991 – 12 December 1991
M.H. Kania13 December 1991 – 17 November 1992
I.M. Sharma18 November 1992 – 11 February 1993
M.N. Venkatachalaiah12 February 1993 – 24 October 1994
A.M. Ahmadi25 October 1994 – 24 March 1997
J.S. Verma25 March 1997 – 17 January 1998
M.M. Punchhi18 January 1998 – 9 October 1998
A.S. Anand10 October 1998 – 31 October 2001
S.P. Bharucha01 November 2001 – 5 May 2002
B.N. Kirpal6 May 2002 – 7 November 2002
G.B. Pattanaiak8 November 2002 – 18 December 2002
V.N. Khare19 December 2002 – 1 May 2004
S. Rajendra Babu02 May 2004 – 31 May 2004
R.C. Lahoti01 June 2004 – 31 October 2005
Y.K. Sabharwal01 November 2005 – 14 January 2007
K.G.Balakrishnan14 January 2007 – 12 May 2010
S.H.Kapadia12 May 2010 – 28 September 2012
Altamas Kabir29 September 2012 – 19 July 2013
Palanisamy Sathasivam19 July 2013 – 26 April 2014
Rajendra Mal Lodha27 April 2014 – 27 September 2014
H.L. Dattu28 September 2014 – 02 December 2015
T.S. Thakur03 December 2015 – 03 January 2017
Jagdish Singh Khehar04 January 2017 – 27 August 2017
Dipak Misra28 August 2017 – 02 October 2018
Ranjan Gogoi03 October 2018 – 17 November 2019
Sharad Arvind Bobde18 November 2019-23 April 2021
Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana24 April 2021-Incumbent

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