List of chief justices of the Gujarat High Court

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The Chief Justice of Gujarat presides over the Gujarat High Court. They are not appointed by the President of India under warrant. The President is required to consult the Governor of Gujarat and the Chief Justice of India before making such appointment. The Governor of Gujarat administers the oath of office at time of appointment. The current Chief Justice of the High Court of Gujarat is Justice Sunita Agarwal.

List of Chief justice of Gujarat

#PictureChief JusticeTook office1 Sir William Syer The Asiatic annual register, or: View of the history of Hindustan ..., Volume 11798Died 18022 Sir James MackintoshParliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 31 18033 Sir John Henry Newbolt18114 Sir Alexander Anstruther1812 Died 1819 5 Sir D. Evans1820Died 18216 Sir Edward West1822Became Chief Justice of Supreme Court, 18236 Sir Edward West1823 first year was in the Recorder's Court7 Sir James Dewar18298 Sir Herbert Abingdon Draper Compton18319 Sir John Wither Awdry183910 Sir Henry Roper184011 Sir David Pollock184612 Sir Thomas Erskine Perry184713 Sir William Yardley185214 Sir Matthew Richard Sausse1859became Bombay High Court Chief Judge in 186214Sir Mathew Richard Sausse1862186615Sir Richard Couch1866187016Sir Michael Roberts Westropp1870188217Sir Charles Sargent1882189518Sir Charles Frederick Farran1895189819Sir Louis Addin Kershaw1898189920Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins1899190821Sir Basil Scott1908191922Sir Norman Cranstoun Macleod1919192623Sir Amberson Barrington Marten1926193024Sir John William Fisher Beaumont1930194325Sir Leonard Stone19431947After Independence26Sir Leonard Stone 1947194827Mahommedali Currim Chagla1948195828Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani19581 May 1960

#PortraitChief JusticeTenureStartEnd29Sunderlal Trikamlal Desai1 May 196025 January 196130Kantilal Thakoredas Desai26 January 196122 May 196331Jaishanker Manilal Shelat31 May 196321 February 196632Jaishanker Manilal Shelat21 February 196622 February 196633Nomanbhai Mahmedbhai Miabhoy22 February 196624 February 196634Nomanbhai Mahmedbhai Miabhoy21 February 196615 September 196735P. N. Bhagwati15 September 196717 July 197336Bipinchandra Jivanlal Diwan17 July 19731 July 197637Seshareddi Obul Reddi1 July 197618 August 197738Bipinchandra Jivanlal Divan18 August 197720 August 197739Seshareddi Obul Reddi20 August 197728 August 197740Bipinchandra Jivanlal Diwan28 August 197719 August 198141Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar20 August 198128 September 198342Padmanabham Subramanian Poti28 September 19831 February 198543Ganendra Narayan Ray1 February 198521 March 198544Puliyangudi Ramaiyapillai Gokulakrishnan21 March 198512 August 199045Ganendra Narayan Ray12 August 199015 June 199246Sundaram Nainar Sundaram15 June 199214 December 199347Bhupinder Nath Kirpal14 December 19931 July 199648Gurudas Datta Kamat1 July 19964 January 199749Kumaran Sreedharan4 January 19973 June 199850Konakuppakattil Gopinathan Balakrishnan3 June 19987 September 199951D M Dharmadhikari7 September 199917 March 200252Daya Saran Sinha17 March 200218 March 200353Bhawani Singh18 March 200327 March 200654Y. R. Meena3 February 200630 June 200855K S Panicker Radhakrishnan30 June 200816 November 200956S J Mukhopadhaya16 November 200913 September 201157Bhaskar Bhattacharya13 September 201128 September 201458T. S. Thakur28 September 201428 September 201459Bhaskar Bhattacharya28 September 201412 February 201660R. Subhash Reddy12 February 20161 November 201861Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi (Acting)2 November 201814 November 201862Anantkumar Surendraray Dave (Acting)15 November 201810 September 201963Vikram Nath10 September 201930 August 202164Vineet Kothari (Acting)31 August 20211 September 202165Rashmin Manharbhai Chhaya (Acting)2 September 202112 October 202166Aravind Kumar13 October 202112 February 202367Sonia Giridhar Gokani13 February 202325 February 202368Ashish Jitendra Desai (acting)26 February 202321 July 2023 69Sunita Agarwal23 July 2023Incumbent

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