list of the Chief Justices of India in chronological

  1. H. J. Kania (1950-1951)
  2. M. Patanjali Sastri (1951-1954)
  3. Mehr Chand Mahajan (1954-1955)
  4. Bijan Kumar Mukherjea (1955-1956)
  5. Sudhi Ranjan Das (1956-1959)
  6. Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha (1959-1964)
  7. P. B. Gajendragadkar (1964-1966)
  8. Amal Kumar Sarkar (1966-1967)
  9. Koka Subba Rao (1967-1970)
  10. S. M. Sikri (1971-1973)
  11. A. N. Ray (1973-1977)
  12. Mirza Hameedullah Beg (1977-1978)
  13. Y. V. Chandrachud (1978-1985)
  14. P. N. Bhagwati (1985-1986)
  15. R. S. Pathak (1986-1989)
  16. E. S. Venkataramiah (1989-1990)
  17. Sabyasachi Mukharji (1991-1993)
  18. M. N. Venkatachaliah (1993-1994)
  19. A. M. Ahmadi (1994-1997)
  20. J. S. Verma (1997-1998)
  21. M. M. Punchhi (1998-1999)
  22. A. S. Anand (1999-2001)
  23. Sam Piroj Bharucha (2001-2002)
  24. B. N. Kirpal (2002-2003)
  25. V. N. Khare (2004-2005)
  26. R. C. Lahoti (2005-2007)
  27. Y. K. Sabharwal (2007-2008)
  28. K. G. Balakrishnan (2008-2010)
  29. S. H. Kapadia (2010-2012)
  30. Altamas Kabir (2012-2013)
  31. P. Sathasivam (2013-2014)
  32. Rajendra Mal Lodha (2014-2015)
  33. H. L. Dattu (2015-2016)
  34. T. S. Thakur (2016)
  35. Jagdish Singh Khehar (2017)
  36. Dipak Misra (2017-2018)
  37. Ranjan Gogoi (2018-2019)
  38. Sharad Arvind Bobde (2019-2020)
  39. N. V. Ramana (2021
  40. Uday Umesh Lalit(1957–) 27 August 2022 8 November 2022
  41. 50. Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud (1959–) 9 November 2022