List of chief justices of the Uttarakhand High Court

The Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court is the highest presiding judicial officer in the state of Uttarakhand and the custodian of the Uttarakhand High Court. He is appointed by the President of India with the advice of Chief Justice of India and the Governor of Uttarakhand. Raghvendra Singh Chauhan is the current Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court. He assumed office on 7 January 2021.[1]

Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court
Incumbent Raghvendra Singh Chauhan since 7 January 2021
Uttarakhand High Court
Abbreviation	CJ
Seat	Nainital
Nominator	Collegium of the Supreme Court of India
Appointer	President of India with confirmation of Chief Justice of India and Governor of Uttarakhand
Term length	till the age of 62 yrs
Constituting instrument	Constitution of India (under Article 217)
Formation	9 November 2000
First holder	Ashok Desai (2000–2003)
Website	Uttarakhand High Court

List of the Chief Justices of Uttarakhand

Following is the list of the Chief Justices of Uttarakhand since its inception on 9 November 2000:

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  Acting Chief Justice of Uttarakhand

№	Name (birth–death)	Portrait	Term		Tenure	Appointed by (President of India)	Note
–	Ashok Desai (1942–2006)		9 November 2000	5 December 2000	26 days	K. R. Narayanan	First Chief Justice of Uttarakhand, assumed office as Acting Chief Justice. Resigned from office on 31 March 2003.
1	Ashok Desai (1942–2006)		6 December 2000	31 March 2003	2 years, 115 days (total 2 years, 142 days)
–	Prakash Chandra Verma (born 1951)		1 April 2003	4 August 2003	125 days	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
2	Sarosh Homi Kapadia (1947–2016)		5 August 2003	17 December 2003	134 days		Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India, went on to become 38th Chief Justice of India.
–	Prakash Chandra Verma (born 1951)		18 December 2003	24 July 2004	219 days
3	Vikas Shridhar Sirpurkar (born 1946)		25 July 2004	19 March 2005	237 days		Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India.
4	Cyriac Joseph (born 1947)		20 March 2005	7 January 2006	293 days		Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India.
–	Prakash Chandra Verma (born 1951)		8 January 2006	13 January 2006	5 days (total 349 days)		Longest serving Acting Chief Justice of Uttarakhand.
5	Rajiv Gupta (born 1950)		14 January 2006	1 February 2008	2 years, 18 days
6	Vinod Kumar Gupta (born 1947)		2 February 2008	9 September 2009	1 year, 219 days	Pratibha Patil
–	Bipin Chandra Kandpal (born 1948)		10 September 2009	24 September 2009	14 days
–	Tarun Agarwala (born 1956)		25 September 2009	28 November 2009	64 days
7	Jagdish Singh Khehar (born 1952)		29 November 2009	7 August 2010	251 days		Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India, went on to become 44th Chief Justice of India.
8	Barin Ghosh (1952–2015)		8 August 2010	4 June 2014	3 years, 300 days
–	Sudhanshu Dhulia (born 1960)		5 June 2014	30 July 2014	55 days	Pranab Mukherjee
9	Kuttiyil Mathew Joseph (born 1958)		31 July 2014	6 August 2018	4 years, 6 days		Longest serving Chief Justice of Uttarakhand, later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India.
–	Rajeev Sharma (born 1958)		7 August 2018	1 November 2018	86 days	Ram Nath Kovind
10	Ramesh Ranganathan (born 1958)		2 November 2018	27 July 2020	1 year, 268 days
–	Ravi Malimath (born 1962)		28 July 2020	6 January 2021	162 days
11	Raghvendra Singh Chauhan (born 1959)		7 January 2021	Incumbent	27 days

See also

• Uttarakhand High Court
• List of current Indian chief justices
• List of sitting judges of High Courts of India
• List of chief justices of India
• List of sitting judges of the Supreme Court of India
• Government of Uttarakhand
• Governor of Uttarakhand
• Chief Minister of Uttarakhand
• Cabinet of Uttarakhand
• Speaker of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly
• Leader of the Opposition in the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly

References

1. Jha, Prashant (8 January 2021). "Chief Justice RS Chauhan takes charge of U'khand HC". Times of India. Retrieved 10 January 2021.

External links

• The High Court of Uttarakhand (Official Website)