The list shows incumbent and past chief justices of Patna High Court, the high court of the state of Bihar. In Indian legal jurisdiction, high courts are instituted as constitutional courts under the Indian Constitution.

List Patna High Court was established on under Letters Patent issued by then British Crown and had 48 chief justices till date. Justice Sudhir Singh is currently serving as the Acting Chief Justice since . Sr. No.NamePortraitDate of AppointmentDate of RetirementTenureRemarksPre-Independence1Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier2Thomas Fredrick Dawson Miller3Courtney Terrell4Arthur Trevor HarriesTransferred to Lahore Later transferred to Calcutta5Saiyid Fazl AliElevated to Federal Court of IndiaPost-Independence6Clifford Monmohan Agarwala7Herbert Ribton Meredith8Pandit Lakshami Kant Jha9David Ezra Reuben10Syed Jafar ImamElevated to Supreme Court11Sudhansu Kumar DasElevated to Supreme Court12Vaidyanathier RamaswamiElevated to Supreme Court13Ramaswamy Laxman Narasimham14Satish Chandra Sharma15Ujjal Narayan Sinha16Nand Lall UntwaliaElevated to Supreme Court17Shyam Nandan Prasad Singh18Krishna Ballabh Narayan SinghTransferred to Madras19Surjit Singh Sandhawalia20Bhagwati Prasad Jha21Dipak Kumar Sen22Shushil Kumar JhaTransferred to Madhya Pradesh23Gangadhar Ganesh Sohani24Bimal Chandra Basak25Krishnaswami Sundara ParipoornanElevated to Supreme Court26Konduswami VenkataswamyElevated to Supreme Court27Gopal Ballav PattanaikServed as 32nd CJI ()28Devinder Pratap WadhwaElevated to Supreme Court29Brij Mohan Lal30Ravi Swaroop Dhavan31J.N. Bhatt32Rajesh Balia33Rajendra Mal LodhaServed as 41st CJI ()34Jacob Benjamin Koshy35Prafulla Kumar Mishra36Dipak MisraTransferred to Delhi Served as 45th CJI ()37Rekha Manharlal Doshit38Lingappa Narasimha Reddy39Iqbal Ahmed Ansari40Rajendra MenonTransferred to Delhi41Mukesh Rasikbhai ShahElevated to Supreme Court42Amreshwar Pratap SahiTransferred to Madras43Sanjay KarolElevated to Supreme Court44Krishnan Vinod ChandranElevated to Supreme Court45Vipul Manubhai PancholiElevated to Supreme Court46Pavankumar Bhimappa Bajanthri47Sangam Kumar Sahoo48Meenakshi Madan RaiIncumbent

See also List of High Courts of India Patna High Court

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