Muhammad Hatta Ali is the thirteenth

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. In the election held on 8 February 2012, M. Hatta Ali comfortably won the position of chief justice ahead of four other candidates. He was sworn in as chief justice by President

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on 1 March 2012. Hatta first became a judge in 1982 when he took up a position on the

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District Court. He was appointed to the High Court in 2003 and then to the Supreme Court in 2007. He was replaced by

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on 30 April 2020.

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