List Of Chief Justices of India

Number	Name	Period of office		Length of term	Bar	Notable cases	Notes
1	H. J. Kania	January 26, 1950	November 6, 1951‡	649 days	Bombay High Court
2	M. Patanjali Sastri	November 7, 1951	January 3, 1954	788 days	Madras High Court
3	Mehr Chand Mahajan	January 4, 1954	December 22, 1954	352 days	Himachal Pradesh High Court
4	B. K. Mukherjee	December 23, 1954	January 31, 1956‡‡	404 days	Calcutta High Court
5	Sudhi Ranjan Das	February 1, 1956	September 30, 1959	1,337 days	Calcutta High Court
6	Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha	October 1, 1959	January 31, 1964	1,583 days	Patna High Court
7	P. B. Gajendragadkar	February 1, 1964	March 15, 1966	773 days	Bombay High Court		Awarded Padma Vibhushan
8	Amal Kumar Sarkar	March 16, 1966	June 29, 1966	105 days	Calcutta High Court
9	Koka Subba Rao	June 30, 1966	April 11, 1967‡‡	285 days	Madras High Court
10	Kailas Nath Wanchoo	April 12, 1967	February 24, 1968	318 days	Allahabad High Court
11	Mohammad Hidayatullah	February 25, 1968	December 16, 1970	1,025 days	Bombay High Court		Acting President of India, Vice-President of India
12	Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah	December 17, 1970	January 21, 1971	35 days	Bombay High Court
13	Sarv Mittra Sikri	Jan 22, 1971	April 25, 1973	824 days	Lahore High Court	Kesavananda Bharati vs. The State of Kerala
14	Ajit Nath Ray	April 26, 1973	January 27, 1977	1,372 days	Calcutta High Court
15	Mirza Hameedullah Beg	January 28, 1977	February 21, 1978	389 days	Himachal Pradesh High Court
16	Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud	February 22, 1978	July 11, 1985	2,696 days	Bombay High Court
17	P. N. Bhagwati	July 12, 1985	December 20, 1986	526 days	Gujarat High Court
18	R. S. Pathak	December 21, 1986	June 18, 1989‡‡	940 days	Himachal Pradesh High Court
19	E. S. Venkataramiah	June 19, 1989	December 17, 1989	181 days	Karnataka High Court
20	Sabyasachi Mukherjee	December 18, 1989	September 25, 1990‡	281 days	Calcutta High Court
21	Ranganath Misra	September 26, 1990	November 24, 1991	424 days	Orissa High Court
22	Kamal Narain Singh	November 25, 1991	December 12, 1991	17 days	Allahabad High Court
23	M. H. Kania	December 13, 1991	November 17, 1992	340 days	Bombay High Court
24	Lalit Mohan Sharma	Nov 18, 1992	Feb 11, 1993	85 days	Patna High Court
25	M. N. Venkatachaliah	February 12, 1993	October 24, 1994	619 days	Karnataka High Court
26	Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi	October 25, 1994	March 24, 1997	881 days	Karnataka High Court
27	Jagdish Sharan Verma	March 25, 1997	January 17, 1998	298 days	Madhya Pradesh High Court
28	Madan Mohan Punchhi	January 18, 1998	October 9, 1998	264 days	Punjab and Haryana High Court
29	Adarsh Sein Anand	October 10, 1998	January 11, 2001	824 days	Madras High Court Jammu and Kashmir High Court
30	Sam Piroj Bharucha	January 11, 2001	May 6, 2002	480 days	Karnataka High Court
31	Bhupinder Nath Kirpal	May 6, 2002	November 8, 2002	186 days	Gujarat High Court
32	Gopal Ballav Pattanaik	November 8, 2002	December 19, 2002	41 days	Patna High Court
33	V. N. Khare	Dec 19, 2002	May 2, 2004	500 days	Calcutta High Court
34	S. Rajendra Babu	May 2, 2004	June 1, 2004	30 days	Karnataka High Court
35	Ramesh Chandra Lahoti	June 1, 2004	November 1, 2005	518 days	Delhi High Court
36	Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal	November 1, 2005	January 13, 2007	438 days	Bombay High Court
37	K. G. Balakrishnan	January 13, 2007	May 11, 2010	1,214 days	Kerala High Court
38	S. H. Kapadia	May 12, 2010	Sep 28, 2012	870 days	Bombay High Court
39	Altamas Kabir	September 29, 2012	Incumbent	27 days	Calcutta High Court