| Post: | Chief Justice |
| Chief Justice | |
| Body: | the Uttarakhand High Court |
| Insigniasize: | 200px |
| Insigniacaption: | Insignia of Chief Justice of Uttarakhand |
| Incumbent: | Ritu Bahri (CJ) |
| Incumbentsince: | 4 February 2024 |
| Department: | Uttarakhand High Court |
| 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 |
| Termlength: | till the age of 62 yrs |
| Constituting Instrument: | Constitution of India (under Article 217) |
| First: | Ashok Desai |
| Abbreviation: | CJ |
| Website: | 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. The chief justice is appointed by the president of India with the advice of the chief justice and the governor of Uttarakhand. Ritu Bahri is the current and first woman Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court. She assumed office on 4 February 2024.[1]
Following is the list of the chief justices of Uttarakhand since its inception on 9 November 2000:
| scope=col | No. | scope=col | Name | scope=col | Portrait | scope=col colspan=2 | Term | scope=col | Tenure | scope=col | Parent High Court | Appointed by | scope=col | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acting | Ashok Desai | 9 November 2000 | 5 December 2000 | Bombay | K. R. Narayanan | First Chief Justice of Uttarakhand, assumed office as Acting Chief Justice. Resigned from office on 31 March 2003. | ||||||||
| 1 | Ashok Desai | 6 December 2000 | 31 March 2003 | |||||||||||
| Acting | Prakash Chandra Verma | 1 April 2003 | 4 August 2003 | Allahabad | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | |||||||||
| 2 | Sarosh Homi Kapadia | 5 August 2003 | 17 December 2003 | Bombay | Shortest-serving Chief Justice of Uttarakhand. Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India, went on to become 38th Chief Justice of India. | |||||||||
| Acting | Prakash Chandra Verma | 18 December 2003 | 24 July 2004 | Allahabad | ||||||||||
| 3 | Vikas Shridhar Sirpurkar | 25 July 2004 | 19 March 2005 | Bombay | Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India. | |||||||||
| 4 | Cyriac Joseph | 20 March 2005 | 7 January 2006 | Kerala | Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India. | |||||||||
| Acting | Prakash Chandra Verma | 8 January 2006 | 13 January 2006 | Allahabad | Longest-serving Acting Chief Justice of Uttarakhand. | |||||||||
| 5 | Rajiv Gupta | 14 January 2006 | 1 February 2008 | Madhya Pradesh | ||||||||||
| 6 | Vinod Kumar Gupta | 2 February 2008 | 9 September 2009 | Jammu and Kashmir | Pratibha Patil | |||||||||
| Acting | Bipin Chandra Kandpal | 10 September 2009 | 24 September 2009 | Uttarakhand | ||||||||||
| Acting | Tarun Agarwal | 25 September 2009 | 28 November 2009 | Allahabad | ||||||||||
| 7 | Jagdish Singh Khehar | 29 November 2009 | 11 August 2010 | Punjab and Haryana | Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India, went on to become 44th Chief Justice of India. | |||||||||
| 8 | Barin Ghosh | 12 August 2010 | 4 June 2014 | Calcutta | ||||||||||
| Acting | Sudhanshu Dhulia | 5 June 2014 | 30 July 2014 | Uttarakhand | Pranab Mukherjee | Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India. | ||||||||
| 9 | Kuttiyil Mathew Joseph | 31 July 2014 | 6 August 2018 | Kerala | Longest-serving Chief Justice of Uttarakhand, later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India. | |||||||||
| Acting | Rajeev Sharma | 7 August 2018 | 1 November 2018 | Himachal Pradesh | Ram Nath Kovind | |||||||||
| 10 | Ramesh Ranganathan | 2 November 2018 | 27 July 2020 | Andhra Pradesh | ||||||||||
| Acting | Ravi Malimath | 28 July 2020 | 6 January 2021 | Karnataka | ||||||||||
| 11 | Raghvendra Singh Chauhan | 7 January 2021 | 23 December 2021 | Rajasthan | ||||||||||
| Acting | Sanjaya Kumar Mishra | 24 December 2021 | 28 June 2022 | Orissa | ||||||||||
| 12 | Vipin Sanghi | 28 June 2022 | 26 October 2023 | Delhi | ||||||||||
| Acting | Manoj Kumar Tiwari | 27 October 2023 | 3 February 2024 | Uttarakhand | Droupadi Murmu | |||||||||
| 13 | Ritu Bahri | 4 February 2024 | 10 October 2024 | Punjab and Haryana | First woman Chief Justice of Uttarakhand. | |||||||||