Present chief justice of india 2022

Former Chairpersons and Members S.No. Name Designation Date of Assumption Date of demitting Office Post held before joining the Commission 1 Justice Shri Ranganath Misra Chairperson 12.10.1993 24.11.1996 Chief Justice of India 2 Justice Shri M.N. Venkatachalliah Chairperson 26.11.1996 24.10.1999 Chief Justice of India 3 Justice Shri J.S. Verma Chairperson 04.11.1999 17.1.2003 Chief Justice of India 4 Dr. Justice A.S. Anand Chairperson 17.2.2003 31.10.2006 Chief Justice of India 5 Justice Dr. Shivaraj V. Patil Acting Chairperson 01.11.2006 01.04.2007 Judge, Supreme Court of India 6 Shri Justice S. Rajendra Babu Chairperson 02.04.2007 31.05.2009 Chief Justice of India 7 Shri Justice Govind Prasad Mathur Acting Chairperson 01.06.2009 06.06.2010 Judge, Supreme Court of India 8 Justice Shri K.G. Balakrishnan Chairperson 07.06.2010 (FN) 11/05/2015 Chief Justice of India 9 Justice Ms. M. Fathima Beevi Member 03.11.1993 24.01.1997 Justice Supreme Court of India 10 Justice Shri S.S. Kang Member 12.10.1993 24.01.1997 Chief Justice, High Court of J&K 11 Shri Virendra Dayal Member 12.10.1993 (1st term) & 16.11.98 (2nd term) 11.10.1998 (1st term) & 15.11.03 (2nd term) Under Secretary General United Nations & Chef de Cabinet 12 Justice Shri V.S. Malimath Member 14.09.1994 11.06.1999 Chief Justice, High Court of Kerala & Karnataka 13 Justice Dr. K. Ramaswamy Member 16.11.1998 12.07.2002 Justice, Supreme Court of India 14 Shri Sudarshan Agarwal Member 30.10.1998 18.06.2001 Secretary Gener...

The Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession is pleased to present its highest professional distinction, the Center on the Legal Profession Award for Global Leadership, to Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, the newly appointed chief justice of the India Supreme Court. Justice Chadrachud, who became chief justice in November 2022, holds an LLM and an SJD from Harvard Law School. He previously served on the Bombay High Court and Allahabad High Court. Before entering the judiciary, he worked for Sullivan & Cromwell, as a senior advocate before the Bombay High Court, and as an Additional Solicitor General of India. In 2017, Chandrachud In bestowing the 2022 award, David Wilkins, CLP faculty director, remarked: “I know how much India, and indeed the world, need Justice Chandrachud’s leadership, particularly on issues such as the mental health and the well-being of lawyers which he spoke about so eloquently at our conference in 2017 – long before the global pandemic placed this issue in the forefront of the profession’s consciousness.” In receiving this award, Justice Chandrachud will join a select group of past recipients, including Samantha Power (former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations under President Obama and current head of the Agency for International Development), Brad Smith (Vice-Chair and President of Microsoft), the late Vernon Jordan (who throughout his distinguished career served as the President of the National Urban League, Senior Managing Dire...