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
Constituting instrument	Constitution of India (under Article 214)
Formation	1 May 1960 (1960-05-01)
First holder	Justice S. T. Desai (1 May 1960 – 25 January 1961)
Salary	₹250,000 (US$3,000) (per month)
Website	http://gujarathighcourt.nic.in/

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.

List of Chief justice of Gujarat

Gujarat High Court was established on 1 May 1960 under Bombay Reorganisation Act,1960 and had 27 Chief Justices till date excluding Acting Chief Justices and Current Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal who is serving from 29 July 2023.

Sr. No.	Name	Date of Appointment	Date of Retirement	Tenure	Remarks
1	Sunderlal Trikamlal Desai	1 May 1960	25 January 1961	270 days
2	Kantilal Thakoredas Desai	26 January 1961	22 May 1963	2 years, 117 days
3	Jaishanker Manilal Shelat	31 May 1963	24 February 1966	2 years, 270 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
4	Nomanbhai Mahmedbhai Miabhoy	21 April 1966	5 September 1967	1 year, 138 days
5	Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati	16 September 1967	17 July 1973	5 years, 305 days	Later served as 17th Chief Justice of India
6	Bipinchandra Jivanlal Diwan	18 July 1973	30 June 1976	2 years, 349 days	Transferred to Undivded Andhra Pradesh as CJ Later again transferred to Gujarat
7	Seshareddi Obul Reddy	7 July 1976	18 August 1977	1 year, 43 days	Transferred to Undivded Andhra Pradesh as CJ
(6)	Bipinchandra Jivanlal Diwan	28 August 1977	19 August 1981	3 years, 357 days	Retransferred to Gujarat High Court as Chief Justice with effect from 28 August 1977.
8	Manharlal Pranlal Thakkar	20 August 1981	14 March 1983	1 year, 207 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
9	Padmanabham Subramanian Poti	28 September 1983	1 February 1985	1 year, 127 days
10	Puliyangudi Ramaiyapillai Gokulakrishnan	21 March 1985	12 August 1990	5 years, 145 days
11	Ganendra Narayan Ray	2 December 1990	6 November 1991	340 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
12	Sundaram Nainar Sundaram	15 June 1992	13 December 1993	1 year, 182 days
13	Bhupinder Nath Kirpal	14 December 1993	10 September 1995	1 year, 271 days	Later served as 31st Chief Justice of India
14	Gurudas Datta Kamat	2 July 1996	4 January 1997	187 days
15	Kumaran Sreedharan	20 October 1997	3 June 1998	227 days
16	Konakuppakattil Gopinathan Balakrishnan	16 July 1998	8 September 1999	1 year, 55 days	Transferred to Madras as CJ Later served as 37th Chief Justice of India
17	D. M. Dharmadhikari	25 January 2000	4 March 2002	2 years, 39 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
18	Daya Saran Sinha	17 March 2002	18 March 2003	1 year, 2 days
19	Bhawani Singh	25 August 2003	28 March 2006	2 years, 216 days
20	Y. R. Meena	3 February 2007	30 June 2008	1 year, 149 days
21	K S Panicker Radhakrishnan	4 September 2008	16 November 2009	1 year, 74 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
22	S J Mukhopadhaya	9 December 2009	12 September 2011	1 year, 278 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
23	Bhaskar Bhattacharya	21 July 2012	28 September 2014	2 years, 70 days
24	R. Subhash Reddy	13 February 2016	1 November 2018	2 years, 262 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
25	Vikram Nath	10 September 2019	30 August 2021	1 year, 355 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
26	Aravind Kumar	13 October 2021	12 February 2023	1 year, 123 days	Elevated to Supreme Court of India
27	Sonia Giridhar Gokani	16 February 2023	25 February 2023	10 days	First Female CJ of Gujarat