About India

Chief Justices of Supreme Court

Chief Justices of Supreme Court of India

No.	Name	Took office	Left office	Originating State
01	H. J. Kania	15 August 1947	16 November 1951	Bombay (now Mumbai)
02	M. P. Sastri	16 November 1951	3 January 1954	Madras (now Chennai)
03	Mehr Chand Mahajan	3 January 1954	22 December 1954	Himachal/Lahore/Kashmir
04	B. K. Mukherjea	22 December 1954	31 January 1956	West Bengal
05	Sudhi Ranjan Das	31 January 1956	30 September 1959	West Bengal
06	Bhuvaneshwar Prasad Sinha	30 September 1959	31 January 1964	Bihar
07	P. B. Gajendragadkar	31 January 1964	15 March 1966	Bombay (now Mumbai)
08	A. K. Sarkar	16 March 1966	29 June 1966	West Bengal
09	K. Subba Rao	30 June 1966	11 April 1967	Andhra Pradesh
10	Kailas Nath Wanchoo	12 April 1967	24 February 1968	Uttar Pradesh
11	M. Hidayatullah	25 February 1968	16 December 1970	present Chattisgarh
12	Jayantilal Chhotalal Shah	17 December 1970	21 January 1971	present Gujarat
13	S. M. Sikri	22 January 1971	25 April 1973	Punjab
14	A. N. Ray	25 April 1973	28 January 1977	West Bengal
15	Mirza Hameedullah Beg	29 January 1977	21 February 1978	Uttar Pradesh
16	Y. V. Chandrachud	22 February 1978	11 July 1985	Bombay (now Mumbai)
17	P. N. Bhagwati	12 July 1985	20 December 1986	Bombay (now Mumbai)
18	R. S. Pathak	21 December 1986	6 June 1989	Uttar Pradesh
19	E. S. Venkataramiah	19 June 1989	17 December 1989	Mysore (now Karnataka)
20	S. Mukharji	18 December 1989	25 September 1990	West Bengal
21	Ranganath Misra	25 September 1990	24 November 1991	Orissa
22	Kamal Narain Singh	25 November 1991	12 December 1991	Uttar Pradesh
23	M. H. Kania	13 December 1991	17 November 1992	Maharashtra
24	Lalit Mohan Sharma	18 November 1992	11 February 1993	Bihar
25	M. N. Venkatachaliah	12 February 1993	24 October 1994	Karnataka
26	A. M. Ahmadi	25 October 1994	24 March 1997	Gujarat
27	J. S. Verma	25 March 1997	18 January 1998	Madhya Pradesh
28	M. M. Punchhi	18 January 1998	9 October 1998	Punjab
29	A. S. Anand	10 October 1998	1 November 2001	Jammu & Kashmir
30	S. P. Bharucha	2 November 2001	6 May 2002	Maharashtra
31	B. N. Kirpal	6 May 2002	11 November 2002	Delhi
32	G. B. Pattanaik	11 November 2002	19 December 2002	Orissa
33	V. N. Khare	19 December 2002	2 May 2004	Uttar Pradesh
34	S. Rajendra Babu	2 May 2004	1 June 2004	Karnataka
35	R. C. Lahoti	1 June 2004	1 November 2005	Uttar Pradesh
36	Y. K. Sabharwal	1 November 2005	14 January 2007	Delhi
37	K. G. Balakrishnan	14 January 2007	11 May 2010	Kerala
38	S. H. Kapadia	12 May 2010 (incumbent)	Till Date	Maharashtra

Capitals Governors and Chief Ministers

Capitals, Governors and Chief Ministers of States

States	Capitals	Governors	Chief Ministers
(1) Andhra Pradesh	Hyderabad	Mr. E.S.L.Narasimhan	Mr. N.Kiran Kumar Reddy
(2) Arunachal Pradesh	Itanagar	Gen. (Retd.) J. J. Singh	Mr. Jarbom Gamlin
(3) Assam	Dispur	Mr. J. B. Patnaik	Mr. Tarun Gogoi
(4) Bihar	Patna	Mr. Devanand Konwar	Mr. Nitish Kumar
(5) Chhattisgarh	Raipur	Mr. Shekhar Dutt	Dr. Raman Singh
(6) Goa	Panaji	Mr. K. Sankaranarayan	Mr. Digambar V. Kamat
(7) Gujarat	Gandhinagar	Dr. Kamla	Mr. Narendra Modi
(8) Haryana	Chandigarh	Mr. Jagannath Pahadia	Mr. Bhupinder S. Hooda
(9) Himachal Pradesh	Shimla	Ms. Urmila Singh	Mr. Prem Kumar Dhumal
(10) Jammu and Kashmir	Srinagar (Summer) Jammu (Winter)	Mr. N. N. Vohra	Mr. Omar Abdullah
(11) Jharkhand	Ranchi	Dr. Syed Ahmed	Mr. Arjun Munda
(12) Karnataka	Bengaluru	Mr. Hans Raj Bhardwaj	Mr. DV Sadananda Gowda
(13) Kerala	Thiruvananthapuram	Mr. M. O. H. Farook	Mr. V. S. Achuthanandan
(14) Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal	Mr. Ram Naresh Yadav	Mr. Shivraj Singh Chauhan
(15) Maharashtra	Mumbai	Mr. Shri K. Sankaranarayanan	Mr. Prithviraj Chavan
(16) Manipur	Imphal	Mr. Gurbachan Jagat	Mr.Okram Ibobi Singh
(17) Meghalaya	Shillong	Mr. R. S. Mooshahary	Mr. Mukul A. Sangma
(18) Mizoram	Aizawl	Mr. Vakkom Purushothaman	Mr.Lalthanhawla
(19) Nagaland	Kohima	Mr. Nikhil Kumar	Mr. Neiphiu Rio
(20) Orissa	Bhubaneswar	Mr. M. C. Bhandare	Mr. Naveen Patnaik
(21) Punjab	Chandigarh	Mr. Shivraj V. Patil	Mr. Parkash Singh Badal
(22) Rajasthan	Jaipur	Mr. Shivraj V. Patil (Acting)	Mr. Ashok Gehlot
(23) Sikkim	Gangtok	Mr. Balmiki Prasad Singh	Mr. Pawan Chamling
(24) Tamil Nadu	Chennai	Mr. K Rosaiah	Ms. Jayalalithaa
(25) Tripura	Agartala	Mr. D. Y. Patil	Mr. Manik Sarkar
(26) Uttarakhand	Dehradun	Ms. Margaret Alva	Mr. Ramesh Pokhriyal
(27) Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow	Mr. B. L. Joshi	Ms. Mayawati
(28) West Bengal	Kolkata	Mr. M. K. Narayanan	Ms. Mamata Banerjee

First in India

First in India

1. British Governor General of Bengal Warren Hastings 2. Governor General of Independent India Lord Mountbatten  3. Commander-in-chief of Free India General Roy Bucher  4. Cosmonaut Sqn. Ldr. Rakesh Sharma  5. Emperor of Moghul Dynasty in India Babar  6. Field Marshal S. H. F. J. Manekshaw  7. Indian Governor General of Indian Union C. Rajagopalachari  8. Indian I.C.S. Officer Satyendra Nath Tagore  9. Indian Member of Viceroy's Executive Council Sri S.P. Sinha  10. Indian to swim across English Channel Mihir Sen  11. Indian woman to swim across-English Channel Miss Arati Saha 12. Man to climb Mount Everest Tenzing Norgay  13. Man to climb Mount Everest without Oxygen Phu Dorjee  14. Man to climb Mount Everest twice Nwang Gombu  15. Nobel Prize winner Rabindra Nath Tagore 16. President of Indian National Congress W. C. Banerjee  17. President of Indian Republic Dr. Rajendra Prasad  18. Talkie Film Alam Ara (1931)  19. Test Tube Baby (Documented) Indira  20. Viceroy of India Lord Canning  21. Woman Minister of Indian Union Rajkumari Amrit Kaur  22. Woman Chief Minister of State Mrs. Sucheta Kriplani  23. Woman Governor Mrs. Sarojini Naidu  24. Woman President of Indian National Congress Dr. Annie Besant  25. Woman Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi  26. Woman Speaker of a State Assembly Mrs. Shanno Devi  27. Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru  28. Muslim President of Indian Union Dr. Zakir Hussain  29. Speaker of Lok Sabha G. V. Mavlankar 30. Woman to climb mount Everest Bachhendri Pal 31. Woman Judge in Supreme Court Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Biwi 32. Woman Chief Justice of a High Court Smt. Leela Seth 33. Indian Woman to go in space (Now U.S. Citizen) Kalpana Chawla 34. The first Indian weightlifter to win bronze medal in Olympics Karnam Malleshwari (Sydney, in 2000) 35. The First Indian World Chess Champion Vishwanathan Anand 36. India's first paperless Newspaper The News Today (Launched on Jan. 3, 2001) 37. India's First woman Merchant Navy Officer Sonali Banerjee 38. The first Dalit Speaker of the Lok Sabha G. M. C. Balyogi 39. The first Vice-President of India to die in harness Krishna Kant 40. The first Indian woman cricketer to score double century Mithali Raj (August 2002 playing  against England) 41. The first woman Air Vice-Marshal P. Bandopadhyaya 42. The first Indian to be appointed as United Nations Civilian Police Advisor Ms. Kiran Bedi 43. The first astronaut of Indian origin to perish aboard U.S. space shuttle in a tragic accident Dr. Kalpana Chawla (Columbia space shuttle, Feb. I, 2003) 44. The first woman to be appointed Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India K. J. Udeshi (appointed on June 10, 2003) 45. The first Indian girl to register a win in a Wimbledon tournament Sania Mirza (2003) 46. The first Indian lady to win a medal in World Athletic Championship Anju Bobby George (Aug. 2003) 47. The first woman Chairman and Managing Director of NABARD Mrs. Ranjana Kumar 48. The highest individual test scorer of India Virendra Sehwag ( 309 runs in the  first test in Multan against Pakistan) 49. The first Indian cricketer to make double centuries five times Rahul Drgvid (playing test against Pakistan in Pakistan in. April 2004) 50. The first Orissa woman to top I.A.S. Smt. Roopa Misra (Indian Civil Services Exam., 2003) 51. The first Sikh Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh 52. The first woman Director General of Police of a State Kanchan C. Bhattacharya (DGP Uttaranchal) 53. The first woman to be appointed as the crime branch chief MeeriJ Borwankar (took over as crime branch chief of Mumbai police) 54. The first woman to reach the rank of Lt. General in the Indian army Puneeta Arora (Commandant, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune) 55. The first Indian to cross seven important seas by swimming Bula Chaudhury 56. The first woman to become Indian Air Force's first woman Air Marshal Air Marshal Padma Bandhopadhyay 57. The first youngest MP, at the age of 25 years Dharmendra Yadav (Mainpuri : Samajwadi Party MP) 58. India's first woman athlete to win WTA open Tennis title Sania Mirza (Feb. 2005, Hyderabad) 59. The first Indian to set a world record of ever having reached the highest of heights yet in a hot balloon Vijaypath Singhania (Nov. 26, 2005. 69852 ft.) 60. The first wonder child of Orissa only about 4 years and a half of age completes a race of 65 km. Budhia (May 2006) 61. The first woman Commissioner of Police of an Indian metro (Chennai Metro Police) Letika Saran 62. The first Indian to Ski to the North Pole Ajeet Bajaj (April 26, 2006) 63. The first sportsman ever to win Gold Medal in Shooting in the World Shooting Championship Abhinav Bindra (July 24, 2006) 64. The first person of Indian origin to win the Miss Great Britain title Preeti Desai (2006) 65. The first woman President of the Republic of India Pratibha Patil