Supreme Court of India

Ajit Nath Ray (29 January 1912 - 25 December 2009) was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India from 25 April 1973 till his retirement on 28 January 1977. Ray was the lone dissenter among the eleven Supreme Court judges that examined the constitutionality of the Bank Nationalization Act, in 1969.

On 9 May 2019, the Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi recommended his elevation to the Supreme Court of India. On 24 May 2019, Kant took oath as a judge of the Supreme Court, a position he served until 23 November 2025.

His judgeship was made permanent in 1978, and in 1991 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court. In 1992, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of India, and became Chief Justice in 2001.

Vikram Nath (born 24 September 1962) is a judge of the Supreme Court of India.

Fathima Beevi (30 April 1927 - 23 November 2023) was an Indian judge who was a justice of the Supreme Court of India.

He was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of India in May 2016.

Pathak (1989-1991) the 18th Chief Justice of India, and Dalveer Bhandari (2012-), former judge of the Supreme Court of India.

Born in Pune in the Bombay Presidency, he was first appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of India on 28 August 1972 and is the longest-serving Chief Justice in India's history at 7 years and 4 months.

He previously served as a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 2012 to 2018.

Rohinton Fali Nariman (born 13 August 1956) is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India.

Mehr Chand Mahajan (23 December 1889 - 11 December 1967) was an Indian jurist and politician who was the third chief justice of the Supreme Court of India.

He was elevated as Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 5 October 1987.

Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan (born 12 May 1945) is an Indian judge who served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India from 2007 to 2010, and later as chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of India.

Before his elevation as a judge of the Supreme Court of India on 17 December 2008, he had served as the Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court and Chhattisgarh High Court.

Previously, he was a judge on the Supreme Court of India, chief justice of Delhi High Court and an acting chief justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court.

Sinha served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India from 1 October 1959 to 31 January 1964.

He previously served as the first Advocate-General for Punjab, before becoming the first judge of the Supreme Court of India, to be directly appointed from the Bar.

On 8 March 1979, he was appointed as judge of the Supreme Court of India, and became the Chief Justice of India in June 1989.

Gopal Ballav Pattanaik (born 19 December 1937) is an Indian lawyer and later a jurist who served for 19 years on the bench of the Odisha High Court as a permanent judge, as chief justice of Patna High Court, judge of the Supreme Court of India and as the 32nd Chief Justice of India.

He was a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 21 March 1997 before he was elevated to the post of Chief Justice.

He has been a judge in Supreme Court of India from 13 September 2011 to 27 August 2017 upon superannuation.

He had a tenure of eight years in the Supreme Court of India and retired on 23 April 2021.

Koka Subba Rao (15 July 1902 - 6 May 1976) was the ninth Chief Justice of India (1966-1967). He also served as the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court.

Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati (21 December 1921 - 15 June 2017) was an Indian jurist, who served as the 17th Chief Justice of India, serving from 12 July 1985 until his retirement on 20 December 1986.

"H. J." Kania (3 November 1890-6 November 1951) was the first Chief Justice of India. He served as the Chief Justice of India from 1950 until

Patanjali Sastri (4 January 1889-16 March 1963) was the second Chief Justice of India, serving in the post from 7 November 1951 to 3 January 19

Pralhad Balacharya Gajendragadkar (16 March 1901 - 12 June 1981) was an Indian judge, who served as the 7th Chief Justice of India, from February 1964 to March 1966.

Kailas Nath Wanchoo (25 February 1903 - 14 August 1988) was the tenth Chief Justice of India. He was born in Allahabad into a Kashmiri Pandit family and was educated on primary at Nowgong, Madhya Pradesh and middle at Pandit Pirthi Nath High School, Kanpur, Muir Central College, Allahabad and Wadham College, Oxford.

Madhukar Hiralal Kania (18 November 1927 - 1 February 2016) was an Indian judge who served as the 23rd Chief Justice of India, serving from 13 December 1991 until his retirement on 17 November 1992.

Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi (25 March 1932 - 2 March 2023) was an Indian judge who was the 26th Chief Justice of India. After serving as a judge in the Gujarat High Court, Ahmadi was appointed judge to the Supreme Court in 1988.

Jagdish Sharan Verma (18 January 1933 - 22 April 2013) was an Indian jurist who served as the 27th Chief Justice of India from 25 March 1997 to 18 January 1998. He was the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission from 1999 to 2003, and chairman of the Justice Verma Committee Report on Amendments to Criminal Law after the 2012 Delhi gang rape case.

Adarsh Sein Anand (1 November 1936 - 1 December 2017) was the 29th Chief Justice of India, serving from 10 October 1998 to 31 October 2001.

2017) was an Indian lawyer and judge who served as the 39th Chief Justice of India.

27 April 1949) is a retired Indian judge who served as the 40th Chief Justice of India, holding the office from 2013 to 2014. On retirement from

lawyer and former Supreme Court judge, who served as the 49th Chief Justice of India. Prior to his elevation as a judge of the Supreme Court,

1891-22 February 1956) was an Indian judge, who served as the 4th Chief Justice of India. He was in office from 22 December 1954 to 31 January 195

Sudhi Ranjan Das (1 October 1894 - 18 September 1977) was the 5th Chief Justice of India, serving from 1 February 1956 to 30 September 1959.

Justice Amal Kumar Sarkar (Bengali: অমল কুমার সরকার) (29 June 1901 - 18 December 2001) was the eighth Chief Justice of India, from 16 March 1966 up to his retirement on 29 June 1966.

Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah (22 January 1906 - 4 January 1991) was the twelfth Chief Justice of India from 17 December 1970 until his retirement on 21 January 1971.

Hameedullah Beg" Mirza Hameedullah Beg (M. Beg) (22 February 1913 - 19 November 1988) was the 15th Chief Justice of India, serving from January 1977 to February 1978.

Lalit Mohan Sharma (12 February 1928 - 3 November 2008) was an Indian judge, who served as the 24th Chief Justice of India, serving for 85 days, from 18 November 1992 until 11 February 1993.

Madan Mohan Punchhi (10 October 1933 - 17 June 2015) was the 28th Chief Justice of India from 18 January 1998 until his retirement on 9 October 1998.

(born 8 November 1937) is a retired Indian judge who was the 31st Chief Justice of India, serving from 6 May 2002 until his retirement on 7 Novemb

1 June 1939) is a retired Indian judge, who served as the 34th Chief Justice of India. He also served as the chairperson of National Human Righ

Ramesh Chandra Lahoti (1 November 1940 - 23 March 2022) was the 35th Chief Justice of India, serving from 1 June 2004 to 1 November 2005.

Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal (14 January 1942 - 3 July 2015) was an Indian jurist, who served as the 36th Chief Justice of India.

Sarosh Homi Kapadia (29 September 1947-4 January 2016) was the 38th Chief Justice of India. He was the first chief justice born after the partition

September 1949) is a retired Indian judge, who served as the 41st Chief Justice of India from 27 April 2014 to 27 September 2014. Before being ele

(born 4 January 1952) is an Indian jurist who served as the 43rd Chief Justice of India (CJI) from 3 December 2015 to 4 January 2017. Before bein

1960) is a retired Indian jurist who had served as the 52nd Chief Justice of India (CJI) from 14 May to 23 November 2025. He is a former jud