List of acting chief justices of Sri Lanka

Chief Justice of Sri Lanka
Chief Justice of Sri Lanka
අග්‍ර විනිශ්චයකාර
	Incumbent; None;
Style	The Honourable Justice
Appointer	President of Sri Lanka
Term length	Until the age of sixty-five years
Website	Supreme Court of Sri Lanka

The Provisional & Acting Chief Justice of Sri Lanka is the temporary head of the judicial system of Sri Lanka as the chief judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. The Chief Justice is one of ten Supreme Court justices; the other nine are the Puisne Justices of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.

Provisional & acting Chief Justices

	Name	Province	Term	Elevated by
	Sir Alexander Johnston §^[1]		3 April 1806 - 5 April 1807
	Sir William Coke§		6 March 1809 - 1811
	Sir Charles Marshall		18 February 1833 - 1836
7	Sir William Rough		9 March 1836 - April 1836
9	Sir William Rough		April 1837 - 1838
	P. J. Sterling		1859 - 1860
	Sir Richard Morgan		1875	William Henry Gregory
	C. H. Stewart		1875 - 1876
	Sir George Anderson		1876 - 1877
	Lovell Burchett Clarence		1882
	Sir Alfred Lascelles		1906
	William Thomas Porter^[2]		1921
	Sir Francis Soertsz		1939
	Sir Francis Soertsz		1945 and 1946
	Eugene Reginald de Fonseka		1960 and 1962	Sir Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke
	Chellappah Nagalingam	Northern Province	1954

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