This is a list of chief justices of the Bombay High Court, in India. See List of chief justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay for previous chief justices.
List
Bombay High Court was established on under Indian High Courts Act 1861 and had 47 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and current Chief Justice Alok Aradhe who is serving from .
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!Sr. No.
!Name
!Date of Appointment
!Date of Retirement
!Tenure
!Remarks
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! colspan="6" |Pre Independence
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!1
|Matthew Richard Sausse
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!2
|Richard Couch
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|Transferred to Calcutta as CJ
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!3
|Michael Roberts Westropp
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!4
|Charles Sargent
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!5
|Charles Frederick Farran
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!6
|Louis Addin Kershaw
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!7
|Lawrence Hugh Jenkins
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|Transferred to Calcutta as CJ
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!8
|Basil Scott
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!9
|Norman Cranstoun Macleod
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!10
|Amberson Barrington Marten
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!11
|John William Fisher Beaumont
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|Longest serving CJ of Bombay
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!12
|Leonard Stone
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|During his tenure India got Independence
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! colspan="6" |Post Independence
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!13
|Mahommedali Currim Chagla
|1948
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!14
|Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani
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|1965
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!15
|Yeshwant Shripad Tambe
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!16
|Sohrab Peshotan Kotval
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!17
|K. Kalyandas Desai
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!18
|Ramanlal Maneklal Kantawala
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!19
|B. N. Deshmukh
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!20
|Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande
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!21
|Dinshah Pirosha Madon
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|Elevated to Supreme Court of India
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!22
|Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar
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|Transferred to Madras as CJ
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!23
|Konda Madhava Reddy
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!24
|Madhukar Hiralal Kania
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|Later served as 23rd Chief Justice of India
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!25
|Chittatosh Mookerjee
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!26
|Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai
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!27
|Manoj Kumar Mukherjee
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|Elevated to Supreme Court of India
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| style="background:wheat;"|Sujata Manohar
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| style="background:wheat;"|First Female CJ of Bombay<br /> Transferred to Kerala as CJ <br /> Later elevated to Supreme Court of India
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!29
|Anandamoy Bhattacharjee
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!30
|Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah
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|Elevated to Supreme Court of India
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!31
|Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal
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|Later served as 36th Chief Justice of India
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!32
|Bisheshwar Prasad Singh
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|Elevated to Supreme Court of India
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!33
|Chunilal Karsandas Thakker
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|Elevated to Supreme Court of India
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!34
|Dalveer Bhandari
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|Elevated to Supreme Court of India <br /> Later elected to International Court of Justice
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!35
|Kshitij R. Vyas
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!36
|Harjit Singh Bedi
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|Elevated to Supreme Court of India
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!37
|Swatanter Kumar
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|Elevated to Supreme Court of India
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!38
|Anil Ramesh Dave
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|Elevated to Supreme Court of India
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!39
|Mohit Shantilal Shah
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!40
|Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela
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| style="background:wheat;"|Manjula Chellur
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!42
|Naresh Harishchandra Patil
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!43
|Pradeep Nandrajog
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!44
|Bhushan Pradyumna Dharmadhikari
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!45
|Dipankar Datta
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|Elevated to Supreme Court of India
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!46
|Ramesh Deokinandan Dhanuka
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|Shortest serving CJ of Bombay
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!47
|Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya
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|Transferred to Delhi as CJ
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