List of chief justices of the Gujarat High Court

Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court
Incumbent Justice Sunita Agarwal since 23 July 2023
Gujarat High Court
Abbreviation	CJ Gujarat
Seat	Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Nominator	Collegium of the Supreme Court
Appointer	President of India
Term length	till the age of 62 yrs^[1]
Constituting instrument	Constitution of India (under Article 214)
Formation	1 May 1960; 63 years ago (1960-05-01)
First holder	Justice S. T. Desai (1 May 1960 – 25 January 1961)
Salary	₹250,000 (US$3,100) (per month)^[2]
Website	http://gujarathighcourt.nic.in/

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The Chief Justice of Gujarat presides over the Gujarat High Court. They are not appointed by the President of India under warrant. The President is required to consult the Governor of Gujarat and the Chief Justice of India before making such appointment. The Governor of Gujarat administers the oath of office at time of appointment. The current Chief Justice of the High Court of Gujarat is Justice Sunita Agarwal.

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List of Chief justice of Gujarat^[3]

N	#	Portrait	Chief Justice	Tenure
	#	Portrait	Chief Justice	Start	End
1	1		Sunderlal Trikamlal Desai	1 May 1960	25 January 1961
2	2		Kantilal Thakoredas Desai	26 January 1961	22 May 1963
3	3		Jaishanker Manilal Shelat	31 May 1963	21 February 1966
4	(3)		Jaishanker Manilal Shelat	21 February 1966	22 February 1966
5	(4)		Nomanbhai Mahmedbhai Miabhoy	22 February 1966	24 February 1966
6	4		Nomanbhai Mahmedbhai Miabhoy	21 February 1966	15 September 1967
7	5		P. N. Bhagwati	15 September 1967	17 July 1973
8	6		Bipinchandra Jivanlal Diwan	17 July 1973	1 July 1976
9	7		Seshareddi Obul Reddi	1 July 1976	18 August 1977
10	(6)		Bipinchandra Jivanlal Divan	18 August 1977	20 August 1977
11	(7)		Seshareddi Obul Reddi	20 August 1977	28 August 1977
12	(6)		Bipinchandra Jivanlal Diwan	28 August 1977	19 August 1981
13	8		Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar	20 August 1981	28 September 1983
14	9		Padmanabham Subramanian Poti	28 September 1983	1 February 1985
15	10		Ganendra Narayan Ray	1 February 1985	21 March 1985
16	11		Puliyangudi Ramaiyapillai Gokulakrishnan	21 March 1985	12 August 1990
17	(10)		Ganendra Narayan Ray	12 August 1990	15 June 1992
18	12		Sundaram Nainar Sundaram	15 June 1992	14 December 1993
19	13		Bhupinder Nath Kirpal	14 December 1993	1 July 1996
20	14		Gurudas Datta Kamat	1 July 1996	4 January 1997
21	15		Kumaran Sreedharan	4 January 1997	3 June 1998
22	16		Konakuppakattil Gopinathan Balakrishnan	3 June 1998	7 September 1999
23	17		D M Dharmadhikari	7 September 1999	17 March 2002
24	18		Daya Saran Sinha	17 March 2002	18 March 2003
25	19		Bhawani Singh	18 March 2003	27 March 2006
26	20		Y. R. Meena	3 February 2006	30 June 2008
27	21		K S Panicker Radhakrishnan	30 June 2008	16 November 2009
28	22		S J Mukhopadhaya	16 November 2009	13 September 2011
29	23		Bhaskar Bhattacharya	13 September 2011	28 September 2014
30	24		T. S. Thakur	28 September 2014	28 September 2014
31	(23)		Bhaskar Bhattacharya	28 September 2014	12 February 2016
32	25		R. Subhash Reddy	12 February 2016	1 November 2018
33	26		Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi (Acting)	1 November 2018	1 November 2018
34	(26)		R. Subhash Reddy	1 November 2018	2 November 2018
35	(27)		Akil Abdulhamid Kureshi (Acting)	2 November 2018	14 November 2018
36	28		Anantkumar Surendraray Dave (Acting)	15 November 2018	10 September 2019
37	29		Vikram Nath	10 September 2019	30 August 2021
38	30		Vineet Kothari (Acting)	31 August 2021	1 September 2021
39	31		Rashmin Manharbhai Chhaya (Acting)	2 September 2021	12 October 2021
40	32		Aravind Kumar	13 October 2021	12 February 2023
41	32		Sonia Giridhar Gokani	13 February 2023	25 February 2023
42	33		Ashish Jitendra Desai (acting)	26 February 2023	21 July 2023
43	34		Sunita Agarwal	23 July 2023	Incumbent

References

^ "Supreme Court of India - CJI & Sitting Judges". Retrieved 4 July 2015.
^ "Supreme Court, High Court judges get nearly 200% salary hike". The Hindustan Times. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
^ "High Court of Gujarat - Former Hon'ble Chief Justices". gujarathighcourt.nic.in. Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 7 May 2015.

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