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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. Guhanathan Narendar is the current Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court. He assumed office on 26 December 2024.

List of 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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No.	Name (birth–death)	Portrait	Term		Tenure	Parent High Court	Appointed by (President of India)	Note
Acting	Ashok Desai (1942–2006)		9 November 2000	5 December 2000	26 days	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 (1942–2006)		6 December 2000	31 March 2003	2 years, 115 days (total 2 years, 142 days)
Acting	Prakash Chandra Verma (born 1951)		1 April 2003	4 August 2003	125 days	Allahabad	A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
2	Sarosh Homi Kapadia (1947–2016)		5 August 2003	17 December 2003	134 days	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 (born 1951)		18 December 2003	24 July 2004	219 days	Allahabad
3	Vikas Shridhar Sirpurkar (born 1946)		25 July 2004	19 March 2005	237 days	Bombay		Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India.
4	Cyriac Joseph (born 1947)		20 March 2005	7 January 2006	293 days	Kerala
Acting	Prakash Chandra Verma (born 1951)		8 January 2006	13 January 2006	5 days (total 349 days)	Allahabad		Longest-serving Acting Chief Justice of Uttarakhand.
5	Rajiv Gupta (born 1950)		14 January 2006	1 February 2008	2 years, 18 days	Madhya Pradesh
6	Vinod Kumar Gupta (born 1947)		2 February 2008	9 September 2009	1 year, 219 days	Jammu and Kashmir	Pratibha Patil
Acting	Bipin Chandra Kandpal (born 1948)		10 September 2009	24 September 2009	14 days	Uttarakhand
Acting	Tarun Agarwal (born 1956)		25 September 2009	28 November 2009	64 days	Allahabad
7	Jagdish Singh Khehar (born 1952)		29 November 2009	11 August 2010	255 days	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 (1952–2015)		12 August 2010	4 June 2014	3 years, 296 days	Calcutta
Acting	Sudhanshu Dhulia (born 1960)		5 June 2014	30 July 2014	55 days	Uttarakhand	Pranab Mukherjee	Later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India.
9	Kuttiyil Mathew Joseph (born 1958)		31 July 2014	6 August 2018	4 years, 6 days	Kerala		Longest-serving Chief Justice of Uttarakhand, later elevated as a judge to the Supreme Court of India.
Acting	Rajeev Sharma (born 1958)		7 August 2018	1 November 2018	86 days	Himachal Pradesh	Ram Nath Kovind
10	Ramesh Ranganathan (born 1958)		2 November 2018	27 July 2020	1 year, 268 days	Andhra Pradesh
Acting	Ravi Malimath (born 1962)		28 July 2020	6 January 2021	162 days	Karnataka
11	Raghvendra Singh Chauhan (born 1959)		7 January 2021	23 December 2021	350 days	Rajasthan
Acting	Sanjaya Kumar Mishra (born 1961)		24 December 2021	28 June 2022	186 days	Orissa
12	Vipin Sanghi (born 1961)		28 June 2022	26 October 2023	1 year, 120 days	Delhi
Acting	Manoj Kumar Tiwari (born 1965)		27 October 2023	3 February 2024	99 days	Uttarakhand	Droupadi Murmu
13	Ritu Bahri (born 1962)		4 February 2024	10 October 2024	327 days	Punjab and Haryana		First woman Chief Justice of Uttarakhand.
Acting	Manoj Kumar Tiwari (born 1965)		11 October 2024	25 December 2024	77 days	Uttarakhand
14	Guhanathan Narendar (born 1964)		26 December 2024	Incumbent	1 day	Karnataka

See also

• Uttarakhand High Court
• List of judges of the Uttarakhand High Court
• List of current Indian chief justices
• List of sitting judges of the high courts of India
• List of chief justices of India
• List of sitting judges of the Supreme Court of India
• Bar Council of Uttarakhand
• Uttarakhand Lokayukta
• 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

External links

• The High Court of Uttarakhand (Official Website)

• Chief justices of the Uttarakhand High Court
• Lists of Indian judges
• Uttarakhand-related lists