Chief Justice of India

Name	Duration	Bar	Appointed By
H. J. Kania	26/1/1950 to 6/11/1951	Bonbay High Court	Rajendra Prasad
M. Patanjali Sastri	7/11/1951 to 3/1/1954	Madras High Court
Mehr Chand Mahajan	4/1/1954 to 22/12/1954	East Punjab High Court
Bijan Kumar Mukherjea	23/12/1954 to 31/1/1956	Culcatta High Court
Sudhi Ranjan Das	1/2/1956 to 30/9/1959	Culcatta High Court
Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha	1/10/1956 to 31/1/1964	Patana High Court
P. B. Gajendragadkar	1/2/1964 to 15/3/1966	Bombay High Court	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Amal Kumar Sarkar	16/3/1966 to 29/6/1966	Culcatta High Court
Koka Subba Rao	30/6/1966 to 11/4/1967	Madras High Court
Kailas Nath Wanchoo	12/4/1967 to 24/2/1968	Allahabad High Court
Mohammad Hidayatullah	25/2/1968 to 16/12/1970	Bombay High Court	Zakir Hussain
Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah	17/12/1970 to 21/1/1971	Bombay High Court	Varahagiri Venkata Giri
Sarv Mittra Sikri	22/1/1971 to 25/4/1973	Lahor High Court
Ajit Nath Ray	26/4/1973 to 27/1/1977	Culcatta High Court
Mirza Hameedullah Beg	28/1/1978 to 21/2/1978	Allahabad High Court	Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud	22/2/1978 to 11/7/1985	Bombay High Court	Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati	12/7/1985 to 20/12/1986	Gujarat High Court	Giani Zail Singh
Raghunandan Swarup Pathak	21/12/1986 to 18/6/1989	Allahabad High Court
Engalaguppe Seetharamiah Venkataramiah	19/6/1989 to 17/12/1989	Karnataka High Court	Ramaswamy Venkataraman
Sabyasachi Mukharji	18/12/1989 to 25/9/1990	Culcatta High Court
Ranganath Misra	26/9/1990 to 24/11/1991	Orissa High Court
Kamal Narain Singh	25/11/1991 to 12/12/1991	Allahabad High Court
Madhukar Hiralal Kania	13/12/1991 to 17/11/1992	Bombay High Court
Lalit Mohan Sharma	18/11/1992 to 11/2/1993	Patana High Court	Shankar Dayal Sharma
Manepalli Narayana Rao Venkatachaliah	12/2/1993 to 24/10/1994	Karnataka High Court
Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi	25/10/1994 to 24/3/1997	Gujarat High Court
Jagdish Sharan Verma	25/3/1997 to 17/1/1998	Madhya Pradesh High Court
Madan Mohan Punchhi	18/1/1998 to 9/10/1998	Punjab and Hariyana High Court	Kocheril Raman Narayanan
Adarsh Sein Anand	10/10/1998 to 11/1/2001	Jammu and Kashmir High Court
Sam Piroj Bharucha	11/1/2001 to 6/5/2002	Bombay High Court
Bhupinder Nath Kirpal	6/5/2002 to 8/11/2002	Delhi High Court
Gopal Ballav Pattanaik	8/11/2002 to 19/12/2002	Orissa High Court	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
V. N. Khare	19/12/2002 to 2/5/2004	Allahabad High Court
S. Rajendra Babu	2/5/2004 to 1/6/2004	Karanataka High Court
Ramesh Chandra Lahoti	1/6/2004 to 1/11/2005	Madhya Pradesh High Court
Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal	1/11/2005 to 13/1/2007	Delhi High Court
K. G. Balakrishnan	13/1/2007 to 11/5/2010	Kerala High Court
S. H. Kapadia	12/5/2010 to 28/9/2012	Bombay High Court	Pratibha Patil
Altamas Kabir	29/9/2012 to 18/7/2013	Culcatta High Court	Pranab Mukherjee
P. Sathasivam	19/7/2013 to 26/4/2014	Madras High Court
Rajendra Mal Lodha	27/4/2014 to 27/9/2014	Rajsthan High Court
H. L. Dattu	28/9/2014 to 2/12/2015	Karnataka High Court
T. S. Thakur	3/12/2015 to 3/1/2017	Jammu and Kashmir High Court
J. S. Khehar	4/1/2017 to 27/8/2017	Punjab and Haryana High Court
Dipak Misra	28/8/2017 to 2/10/2018	Odisha High Court	Ram Nath Kovind