Chief Justice of India is the head of the judiciary system in India. The chief justice is the head of the Supreme Court and is the responsible for the allocation of cases and appointment of constitutional benches which deal with important matters of law.
| S.No. | Name | Tenure |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | H. J. Kania | 26 Jan 1950-6 Nov 1951 |
| 2. | M. Patanjali Sastri | 7 Nov 1951-3 Jan 1954 |
| 3. | Mehr Chand Mahajan | 4 Jan 1954-22 Dec 1954 |
| 4. | Bijan Kumar Mukherjee | 23 Dec 1954-31 Jan 1956 |
| 5. | Sudhi Ranjan Das | 1 Feb 1956-30 Sep 1959 |
| 6. | Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha | 1 Oct 1959- 31 Jan 1964 |
| 7. | P. B. Gajendragadkar | 1 Feb 1964-15 March 1966 |
| 8. | Amal Kumar Sarkar | 16 March 1966-29 June 1966 |
| 9. | Koka Subba Rao | 30 June 1966-11 April 1967 |
| 10. | Kailas Nath Wanchoo | 12 April 1967-24 Feb 1968 |
| 11. | Mohammad Hidayatullah | 25 Feb 1968-16 Dec 1970 |
| 12. | Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah | 17 Dec 1970- 21 Jan 1971 |
| 13. | Sarv Mittra Sikri | 22 Jan 1971- 25 April 1973 |
| 14. | A. N. Ray | 26 April 1973- 27 Jan 1977 |
| 15. | Mirza Hameedullah Beg | 29 Jan 1977- 21 Feb 1978 |
| 16. | Y. V. Chandrachud | 22 Feb 1978- 11 July 1985 |
| 17. | P. N. Bhagwati | 12 July 1985-20 Dec 1986 |
| 18. | Raghunandan Swarup Pathak | 21 Dec 1986- 18 June 1989 |
| 19. | Engalaguppe Seetharamaiah Venkataramiah | 19 June 1989- 17 Dec 1989 |
| 20. | Sabyasachi Mukharji | 18 Dec 1989- 25 Sep 1990 |
| 21. | Ranganath Misra | 26 Sep 1990- 24 Nov 1991 |
| 22. | Kamal Narain Singh | 25 Nov 1991- 12 Dec 1991 |
| 23. | Madhukar Hiralal Kania | 13 Dec 1991- 17 Nov 1992 |
| 24. | Lalit Mohan Sharma | 18 Nov 1992- 11 Feb 1993 |
| 25. | M. N. Venkatachaliah | 12 Feb 1993- 24 Oct 1994 |
| 26. | Aziz Mushabber Ahmadi | 25 Oct 1994- 24 March 1997 |
| 27. | J. S. Verma | 25 March 1997- 17 Jan 1998 |
| 28. | Madan Mohan Punchhi | 18 Jan 1998- 9 Oct 1998 |
| -29. | Adarsh Sein Anand | 10 Oct 1998- 31 Oct 2001 |
| 30. | Sam Piroj Bharucha | 1 Nov 2001- 5 May 2002 |
| 31. | Bhupinder Nath Kirpal | 6 May 2002- 7 Nov 2002 |
| 32. | Gopal Ballav Pattanaik | 8 Nov 2002- 18 Dec 2002 |
| 33. | V. N. Khare | 19 Dec 2002- 1 May 2004 |
| 34. | S. Rajendra Babu | 2 May 2004- 31 May 2004 |
| 35. | Ramesh Chandra Lahoti | 1 June 2004- 31 Oct 2005 |
| 36. | Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal | 1 Nov 2005- 13 Jan 2007 |
| 37. | K. G. Balakrishnan | 14 Jan 2007- 12 May 2010 |
| 38. | S. H. Kapadia | 12 May 2010- 28 Sep 2012 |
| 39. | Altamas Kabir | 29 Sep 2012- 18 July 2013 |
| 40. | P. Sathasivam | 19 July 2013- 26 April 2014 |
| 41. | Rajendra Mal Lodha | 27 April 2014- 27 Sep 2014 |
| 42. | H. L. Dattu | 28 Sep 2014- 2 Dec 2015 |
| 43. | T. S. Thakur | 3 Dec 2015- 3 Jan 2017 |
| 44. | Jagdish Singh Khehar | 4 Jan 2017- 27 Aug 2017 |
| 45. | Dipak Misra | 28 Aug 2017- 2 Oct 2018 |
| 46. | Ranjan Gogoi | 3 Oct 2018- 17 Nov 2019 |
| 47. | Sharad Arvind Bobde | 18 Nov 2019- Incumbent |
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