List of chief justices of the Bombay High Court

Template:Use Indian EnglishTemplate:Infobox official postTemplate:Use dmy dates This is a list of chief justices of the Bombay High Court, in India. See List of chief justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay for previous chief justices.

List

Bombay High Court was established on Template:Date table sorting under Indian High Courts Act 1861 and had 47 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and current Chief Justice Alok Aradhe who is serving from Template:Dts.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
Pre Independence
1	Matthew Richard Sausse	Template:Date table sorting<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts
2	Richard Couch	Template:Dts	Template:Dts		Transferred to Calcutta as CJ
3	Michael Roberts Westropp	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
4	Charles Sargent	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
5	Charles Frederick Farran	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
6	Louis Addin Kershaw	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
7	Lawrence Hugh Jenkins	Template:Dts	Template:Dts		Transferred to Calcutta as CJ
8	Basil Scott	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
9	Norman Cranstoun Macleod	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
10	Amberson Barrington Marten	Template:Dts	Template:Dts
11	John William Fisher Beaumont	Template:Dts	Template:Dts		Longest serving CJ of Bombay
12	Leonard Stone	Template:Dts	Template:Dts		During his tenure India got Independence
Post Independence
13	Mahommedali Currim Chagla	1948	Template:Dts
14	Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani	Template:Dts	1965
15	Yeshwant Shripad Tambe	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
16	Sohrab Peshotan Kotval	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
17	K. Kalyandas Desai	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
18	Ramanlal Maneklal Kantawala	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
19	B. N. Deshmukh	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
20	Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
21	Dinshah Pirosha Madon	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
22	Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Transferred to Madras as CJ
23	Konda Madhava Reddy	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
24	Madhukar Hiralal Kania	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Later served as 23rd Chief Justice of India
25	Chittatosh Mookerjee	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
26	Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
27	Manoj Kumar Mukherjee	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
28	Sujata Manohar	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	First Female CJ of Bombay Transferred to Kerala as CJ Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
29	Anandamoy Bhattacharjee	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
30	Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
31	Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Later served as 36th Chief Justice of India
32	Bisheshwar Prasad Singh	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
33	Chunilal Karsandas Thakker	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
34	Dalveer Bhandari	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Elevated to Supreme Court of India Later elected to International Court of Justice
35	Kshitij R. Vyas	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
36	Harjit Singh Bedi	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
37	Swatanter Kumar	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
38	Anil Ramesh Dave	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
39	Mohit Shantilal Shah	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
40	Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
41	Manjula Chellur	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
42	Naresh Harishchandra Patil	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
43	Pradeep Nandrajog	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
44	Bhushan Pradyumna Dharmadhikari	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd
45	Dipankar Datta<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Elevated to Supreme Court of India<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
46	Ramesh Deokinandan Dhanuka<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Shortest serving CJ of Bombay
47	Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya	Template:Dts	Template:Dts	Template:Ayd	Transferred to Delhi as CJ<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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