List of chief justices of the Bombay High Court

Chief Justice of Bombay High Court
Incumbent Dipankar Datta since 28 April 2020
Bombay High Court
Abbreviation	CJ Bombay
Seat	Bombay
Nominator	Collegium of the Supreme Court of India
Appointer	President of India
Term length	till the age of 62 yrs
Constituting instrument	Constitution of India (under Article 124)
Formation	1862 (1862)
First holder	Justice Matthew Richard Sausse (1862-1866)
Salary	₹250,000 (US$3,000) (per month)
Website	http://www.bombayhighcourt.nic.in/

This is a list of chief justices of the Bombay High Court. See List of Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Bombay for previous chief justices.

Chief Justice	Term
Sir Matthew Richard Sausse	1862-1866
Sir Richard Couch	1866-1870
Sir Michael Roberts Westropp	1870-1882
Sir Charles Sargent	1882-1895
Sir Charles Frederick Farran	1895-1898
Sir Louis Addin Kershaw	1898-1899
Sir Lawrence Hugh Jenkins	1899-1908
Sir Basil Scott	1908-1919
Sir Norman Cranstoun Macleod	1919-1926
Sir Amberson Barrington Marten	1926-1930
Sir John William Fisher Beaumont	1930-1943
Sir Leonard Stone	1943-1948
Mahommedali Currim Chagla	1948-1958
Hashmatrai Khubchand Chainani	1958-1965
Yeshwant Shripad Tambe	1965-1966
Sohrab Peshotan Kotval	1966-1972
K. Kalyandas Desai	1972
Ramanlal Maneklal Kantawala	1972-1978
B. N. Deshmukh	1978-1980
Venkat Shrinivas Deshpande	1980-1982
Dinshah Pirosha Madon	1982-1983
Madhukar Narhar Chandurkar	1983-1984
Konda Madhava Reddy	1984-1985
Madhukar Hiralal Kania	1985-1987
Chittatosh Mookerjee	1987-1991
Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai	1991-1992
Manoj Kumar Mukherjee	1993
Sujata Vasant Manohar	1994
Anandamoy Bhattacharjee	1994-1995
Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah	1995-1998
Yogesh Kumar Sabharwal	1999-2000
Bisheshwar Prasad Singh	2000-2001
Chunilal Karsandas Thakker	2001-2004
Dalveer Bhandari	24 July 2004 - 27 October 2005
Kshitij R. Vyas	2006-2006
Harjit Singh Bedi	2006-2007
Swatanter Kumar	2007-2009
Anil R. Dave	11 February 2010 - 29 April 2010
Mohit Shantilal Shah	2010 - 8 September 2015
Vijaya Tahilramani Acting CJ	2015-2016
Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela	15 February 2016 - 10 August 2016
Manjula Chellur	22 August 2016 -5 December 2017
Vijaya Tahilramani Acting CJ	6 December 2017 - 12 August 2018
Naresh Harishchandra Patil Acting CJ	13 August 2018 – 28 October 2018
Naresh Harishchandra Patil	29 October 2018 - 6 April 2019
Ajay Nikam	7 April 2019 - 23 February 2020
B. P. Dharmadhikari Acting CJ	24 February 2020 - 19 March 2020
B. P. Dharmadhikari	20 March 2020 - 27 April 2020
Dipankar Datta	28 April 2020 - Incumbent