List of chief justices of the Bombay High Court explained

Post:	Chief Justice of Bombay High Court
Incumbentsince:	29 July 2023
Department:	Bombay High Court
Seat:	Bombay
Nominator:	Collegium of the Supreme Court of India
Appointer:	President of India
Termlength:	till the age of 62 yrs^[1]
Constituting Instrument:	Constitution of India (under Article 124)
First:	Justice Matthew Richard Sausse (1862-1866)
Abbreviation:	CJ Bombay
Salary:	(per month)^[2]
Website:	http://www.bombayhighcourt.nic.in/

This is a list of chief justices of the Bombay High Court. See List of chief justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay for previous chief justices.

List of chief justices

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Chief Justice	Tenure		Governor(Oathed by)
Start	Finish
1	Sir Mathew Richard Sausse	1862	1866
2	Sir Richard Couch	1866	1870
3	Sir Michael Roberts Westropp	1870	1882
4	Sir Charles Sargent	1882	1895
5	Sir Charles Frederick Farran	1895	1898
6	Sir Louis Addin Kershaw	1898	1899
7	Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins	1899	1908
8	Sir Basil Scott	1908	1919
9	Sir Norman Cranstoun Macleod	1919	1926
10	Sir Amberson Barrington Marten	1926	1930
11	Sir John William Fisher Beaumont	1930	1943
12	Sir Leonard Stone	1943	1947	John Colville
After Independence
12	Sir Leonard Stone	1947	1948	John Colville
13	Mahommedali Currim Chagla	1948	1958	Raja Sir Maharaj Singh
14	Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani	1958	1965	Sri Prakasa
15		1965	4 February 1966
		5 February 1966	31 July 1966	Dr P V Cherian
16	Sohrab Peshotan Kotval	1 August 1966	26 September 1972
17	K. Kalyandas Desai	27 September 1972	26 October 1972
18	Ramanlal Maneklal Kantawala	27 October 1972	5 October 1978	Ali Yavar Jung
19	B. N. Deshmukh	6 October 1978	18 November 1980	Sri Sadiq Ali
20		19 November 1980	11 January 1981	-
		12 January 1981	11 August 1982	O P Mehra
21		12 August 1982	30 August 1982	-
		31 August 1982	14 March 1983	Idris Hasan Latif
22	Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar	15 March 1983	14 March 1984
23	Konda Madhava Reddy	8 April 1984	21 October 1985
24	Madhukar Hiralal Kania	23 June 1986	1 May 1987	Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma
25	Chittatosh Mookerjee	2 November 1987	31 December 1990
25	Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai	7 January 1991	13 December 1992	Dr. C Subramaniam
26	Manoj Kumar Mukherjee	9 January 1993	14 December 1993
27	Sujata Manohar	15 January 1994	7 November 1994	Dr. P.C. Alexander
28	Anandamoy Bhattacharjee	21 April 1994	1 April 1995
29	Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah	2 August 1995	9 December 1998
30	Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal	3 February 1999	28 January 2000
31	Bisheshwar Prasad Singh	31 March 2000	14 December 2001
32	Chunilal Karsandas Thakker	31 December 2001	7 June 2004
33	Dalveer Bhandari	25 July 2004	27 October 2005	Mohammed Fazal
34	Kshitij R. Vyas	25 February 2006	18 July 2006	S.M. Krishna
35	Harjit Singh Bedi	3 October 2006	12 January 2007
36	Swatanter Kumar	31 March 2007	30 December 2009
37	Anil Ramesh Dave	11 February 2010	29 April 2010	Kateekal Sankaranarayanan
38	Mohit Shantilal Shah	26 June 2010	8 September 2015
39	Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela	15 February 2016	10 August 2016	Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao
40	Manjula Chellur	22 August 2016	4 December 2017
41		5 December 2017	12 August 2018	-
42		13 August 2018	28 October 2018
		29 October 2018	6 April 2019	Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao
43	Pradeep Nandrajog	7 April 2019	23 February 2020
44		24 February 2020	19 March 2020
		20 March 2020	27 April 2020	Bhagat Singh Koshyari
45	Dipankar Datta	28 April 2020	11 December 2022
46	Ramesh Devkinandan Dhanuka	28 May 2023	30 May 2023 सर्वात कमी कार्यकाळ ३दिवस***	Ramesh Bais
Act CJ	Nitin Jamdar	30 May 2023	28 July 2023	Ramesh Bais
47	Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya	29 July 2023	Present	Ramesh Bais

References

1. Web site: Supreme Court of India - CJI & Sitting Judges. 4 July 2015.
2. News: Supreme Court, High Court judges get nearly 200% salary hike. The Hindustan Times. 30 January 2018. 30 January 2018.