List of chief justices of the Gujarat High Court

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| post = Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court

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| incumbent = Justice Sunita Agarwal

| incumbentsince = 23 July 2023

| department = Gujarat High Court

| seat = Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

| nominator = Collegium of the Supreme Court

| appointer = President of India

| termlength = till the age of 62 yrs{{cite web|url=http://supremecourtofindia.nic.in/judges/judges.htm|title=Supreme Court of India - CJI & Sitting Judges|publisher=|accessdate=4 July 2015}}

| constituting_instrument = Constitution of India (under Article 214)

| formation = {{start date and age|df=yes|1960|5|1}}

| first = Justice S. T. Desai (1 May 1960 – 25 January 1961)

| abbreviation = CJ Gujarat

| salary = {{INRConvert|250000}} (per month){{cite news|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/supreme-court-high-court-judges-get-nearly-200-salary-hike/story-sRMnVUhOLqAgXJaVOf0VcN.html|title=Supreme Court, High Court judges get nearly 200% salary hike|newspaper=The Hindustan Times|date=30 January 2018|accessdate=30 January 2018}}

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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

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!Picture

!Chief Justice

! colspan="2" |Took office

1

|

Sir William Syer The Asiatic annual register, or: View of the history of Hindustan ..., Volume 1

|1798

Died 1802
2

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Sir James MackintoshParliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 31

|1803

3

|

Sir John Henry Newbolt

|1811

4

|

Sir Alexander Anstruther

|1812

Died 1819
5

|

Sir D. Evans

|1820

Died 1821
6

|

Sir Edward West

|1822

Became Chief Justice of Supreme Court, 1823
6

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Sir Edward West{{cite book|author=Joseph Haydn|title=The Book of Dignities: Containing Lists of the Official Personages of the British Empire|url=https://archive.org/details/bookdignitiesco01haydgoog|accessdate=23 September 2013|year=1851|publisher=Longmans, Brown, Green and Longmans|page=[https://archive.org/details/bookdignitiesco01haydgoog/page/n293 272]}}

|1823

first year was in the Recorder's Court
7

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Sir James Dewar

|1829

8

|

Sir Herbert Abingdon Draper Compton

|1831

9

|

Sir John Wither Awdry

|1839

10

|

Sir Henry Roper

|1840

11

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Sir David Pollock

|1846

12

|

Sir Thomas Erskine Perry

|1847

13

|

Sir William Yardley{{cite book|author=J. HIGGINBOTHAM|title=The Bombay Miscellany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZrQIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA640|accessdate=23 September 2013|year=1862|page=640}}

|1852

14

|

Sir Matthew Richard Sausse

|1859

became Bombay High Court Chief Judge in 1862
14

|

|Sir Mathew Richard Sausse

|1862

|1866

15

|

|Sir Richard Couch

|1866

|1870

16

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|Sir Michael Roberts Westropp

|1870

|1882

17

|

|Sir Charles Sargent

|1882

|1895

18

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|Sir Charles Frederick Farran

|1895

|1898

19

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|Sir Louis Addin Kershaw

|1898

|1899

20

|

|Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins

|1899

|1908

21

|

|Sir Basil Scott

|1908

|1919

22

|

|Sir Norman Cranstoun Macleod

|1919

|1926

23

|

|Sir Amberson Barrington Marten

|1926

|1930

24

|

|Sir John William Fisher Beaumont

|1930

|1943

25

|

|Sir Leonard Stone

|1943

|1947

colspan="5" |After Independence
26

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|Sir Leonard Stone

|1947

|1948

27

|

|Mahommedali Currim Chagla

|1948

|1958

28

|

|Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani

|1958

|1 May 1960

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! colspan="2" |Tenure

!Start

!End

29

|

|Sunderlal Trikamlal Desai

|1 May 1960

|25 January 1961

30

|

|Kantilal Thakoredas Desai

|26 January 1961

|22 May 1963

31

|

|Jaishanker Manilal Shelat

|31 May 1963

|21

February 1966

32

|

|Jaishanker Manilal Shelat

|21 February 1966

|22

February 1966

33

|

|Nomanbhai Mahmedbhai Miabhoy

|22 February 1966

|24 February 1966

34

|

|Nomanbhai Mahmedbhai Miabhoy

|21 February 1966

|15 September 1967

35

|

|P. N. Bhagwati

|15 September 1967

|17 July 1973

36

|

|Bipinchandra Jivanlal Diwan

|17 July 1973

|1 July 1976

37

|

|Seshareddi Obul Reddi

|1 July 1976

|18 August 1977

38

|

|Bipinchandra Jivanlal Divan

|18 August 1977

|20 August 1977

39

|

|Seshareddi Obul Reddi

|20 August 1977

|28 August 1977

40

|

|Bipinchandra Jivanlal Diwan

|28 August 1977

|19 August 1981

41

|

|Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar

|20 August 1981

|28 September 1983

42

|

|Padmanabham Subramanian Poti

|28 September 1983

|1 February 1985

43

|

|Ganendra Narayan Ray

|1 February 1985

|21 March 1985

44

|

|Puliyangudi Ramaiyapillai Gokulakrishnan

|21 March 1985

|12 August 1990

45

|

|Ganendra Narayan Ray

|12 August 1990

|15 June 1992

46

|

|Sundaram Nainar Sundaram

|15 June 1992

|14 December 1993

47

|

|Bhupinder Nath Kirpal

|14 December 1993

|1 July 1996

48

|

|Gurudas Datta Kamat

|1 July 1996

|4 January 1997

49

|

|Kumaran Sreedharan

|4 January 1997

|3 June 1998

50

|

|Konakuppakattil Gopinathan Balakrishnan

|3 June 1998

|7 September 1999

51

|

|D M Dharmadhikari

|7 September 1999

|17 March 2002

52

|

|Daya Saran Sinha

|17 March 2002

|18 March 2003

53

|

|Bhawani Singh

|18 March 2003

|27 March 2006

54

|

|Y. R. Meena

|3 February 2006

|30 June 2008

55

|

|K S Panicker Radhakrishnan

|30 June 2008

|16 November 2009

56

|

|S J Mukhopadhaya

|16 November 2009

|13 September 2011

57

|

|Bhaskar Bhattacharya

|13 September 2011

|28 September 2014

58

|

|T. S. Thakur

|28 September 2014

|28 September 2014

59

|

|Bhaskar Bhattacharya

|28 September 2014

|12 February 2016

60

|

|R. Subhash Reddy

|12 February 2016

|1 November 2018

61

|

|Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi (Acting)

|1 November 2018

|1 November 2018

62

|

|R. Subhash Reddy

|1

November 2018

|2 November 2018

63

|

|Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi (Acting)

|2 November 2018

|14 November 2018

64

|

|Anantkumar Surendraray Dave (Acting)

|15 November 2018

|10 September 2019

65

|

|Vikram Nath

|10 September 2019

|30 August 2021

66

|

|Vineet Kothari (Acting)

|31 August 2021

|1 September 2021

67

|

|Rashmin Manharbhai Chhaya (Acting)

|2 September 2021

|12 October 2021

68

|

|Aravind Kumar

|13 October 2021

|12 February 2023

69

|

|Sonia Giridhar Gokani

|13 February 2023

|25 February 2023

70

|

|Ashish Jitendra Desai (acting)

|26 February 2023

|21 July 2023

71

|

|Sunita Agarwal

|23 July 2023

|Incumbent

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