This is a list of chief justices of the

Bombay High Court The High Court of Bombay is the high court of the states of Maharashtra and Goa in India, and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. It is seated primarily at Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay), and is one of the ...

. See List of Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay for previous chief justices.

List of Chief Justices

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Michael Roberts Westropp Sir Michael Roberts Westropp (29 June 1817 – 14 January 1890) was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court and former Advocate General of the Supreme Court, Bombay Presidency. Early life Westropp was born in 1817 in Ireland. He was the son o ...

, 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 Sir Basil Scott (1859 - 1926) was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. Early life Sir Basil Scott was the son of Henry Scott educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He passed B.A. in 1882 and M.A. in 1886. He was called to Bar Inner Temple ...

, 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 , - ! colspan="4" , 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 Sri Prakasa (3 August 1890 – 23 June 1971) was an Indian politician, freedom-fighter and administrator. He served as India's first High Commissioner to Pakistan from 1947 to 1949, Governor of Assam from 1949 to 1950, Governor of Madras from ...

, - ! rowspan="2" , 15 , rowspan="2" , Yeshwant Shripad Tambe , 1965 , 4 February 1966 , , - , 5 February 1966 , 31 July 1966 , rowspan="2" , Dr

P V Cherian Palathinkal Varkey Cherian (or Cheriyan) (9 July 1893 – 9 November 1969) was a physician, surgeon and politician from India. He was the Governor of Maharashtra from 14 November 1964 to 8 November 1969. Early life and medical career 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 Nawab Ali Yavar Jung Bahadur (February 1906 – 11 December 1976) was an Indian diplomat. He served as Indian Ambassador in Argentina, Egypt, Yugoslavia and Greece, France, and the United States. He was governor of the Indian state of Maha ...

, - !19 , B. N. Deshmukh , 6 October 1978 , 18 November 1980 ,

Sri Sadiq Ali Sadiq Ali (1910–17 April 2001) Born in Udaipur in British India, he was a freedom fighter. He left home at a young age to pursue his studies at Allahabad University and then joined the freedom struggle and was jailed several times. During hi ...

, - ! rowspan="2" , 20 , rowspan="2" , Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande , 19 November 1980 , 11 January 1981 , - , - , 12 January 1981 , 11 August 1982 , O P Mehra , - ! rowspan="2" , 21 , rowspan="2" , Dinshah Pirosha Madon , 12 August 1982 , 30 August 1982 , - , - , 31 August 1982 , 14 March 1983 , rowspan="3" ,

Idris Hasan Latif Air Chief Marshal Idris Hasan Latif, PVSM (9 June 1923 – 30 April 2018) was a former air officer in the Indian Air Force. He served as the 10th Chief of Air Staff (CAS) of the Indian Air Force (IAF) from 1978 to 1981. After retiring from the ...

, - !22 , Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar , 15 March 1983 , 14 March 1984 , - !23 , Konda Madhava Reddy , 8 April 1984 , 21 October 1985 , - !24 ,

Madhukar Hiralal Kania Madhukar Hiralal Kania (18 November 1927 – 1 February 2016) was an Indian judge who became the 23rd Chief Justice of India, serving from 13 December 1991 until his retirement on 17 November 1992. He was born in Bombay. His uncle was Sir Haril ...

, 23 June 1986 , 1 May 1987 , rowspan="2" , Dr.

Shankar Dayal Sharma Shankar Dayal Sharma (; 19 August 1918 – 26 December 1999) was an Indian lawyer and politician from the state of Madhya Pradesh who served as the ninth President of India, from 1992 to 1997. Born in Bhopal, Sharma studied at Agra, Allahaba ...

, - !25 , Chittatosh Mookerjee , 2 November 1987 , 31 December 1990 , - !25 ,

Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai (14 December 1930 – 17 May 2004) or P. D. Desai was a former Chief Justice of several High Courts of India. He also held the additional charge of the Governor of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh from 8 March 1986 to 1 ...

, 7 January 1991 , 13 December 1992 , rowspan="2" , Dr. C Subramaniam , - !26 , Manoj Kumar Mukherjee , 9 January 1993 , 14 December 1993 , - !27 ,

Sujata Manohar Sujata Vasant Manohar (born 28 August 1934) is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India (retired in 1999) and a former member of the National Human Rights Commission of India. Early life and education Ms. Manohar was born into a family wi ...

, 15 January 1994 , 7 November 1994 , rowspan="6" , 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 Mohammed Fazal (2 July 1922 – 4 September 2014) was an Indian politician who was the Governor of Maharashtra from 10 October 2002 to 5 December 2004. Born in a well-known ''zamindari'' (landlord) family, he studied at the Allahabad Universi ...

, - !34 , Kshitij R. Vyas , 25 February 2006 , 18 July 2006 , rowspan="3" ,

S.M. Krishna Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna (born 1 May 1932) is an Indian politician who served as Minister of External Affairs of India from 2009 to October 2012. He was the 16th Chief Minister of Karnataka from 1999 to 2004 and the 19th Governor of Mahar ...

, - !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 , rowspan="2" , Kateekal Sankaranarayanan , - !38 , Mohit Shantilal Shah , 26 June 2010 , 8 September 2015 , - !39 , Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela , 15 February 2016 , 10 August 2016 , rowspan="2" , Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao , - !40 , Manjula Chellur , 22 August 2016 , 4 December 2017 , - !41 , Vijaya Tahilramani , 5 December 2017 , 12 August 2018 , rowspan="2" , - , - ! rowspan="2" , 42 , rowspan="2" , Naresh Harishchandra Patil , 13 August 2018 , 28 October 2018 , - , 29 October 2018 , 6 April 2019 , rowspan="2" , Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao , - !43 , Pradeep Nandrajog , 7 April 2019 , 23 February 2020 , - ! rowspan="2" , 44 , rowspan="2" , B. P. Dharmadhikari , 24 February 2020 , 19 March 2020 , , - , 20 March 2020 , 27 April 2020 , rowspan="2" ,

Bhagat Singh Koshyari Bhagat Singh Koshyari (born 17 June 1942) is an Indian politician serving as the 22nd and current Governor of Maharashtra from 5 September 2019. An RSS veteran, Koshyari served as National Vice-President of BJP and party's 1st State president ...

, - !45 , Dipankar Datta , 28 April 2020 , Incumbent , -

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