| No. | Name of the Hon’ble Chief Justice | Tenure | Appointed By : President of India |
| 1. | Justice Harilal J. Kania | 26 January 1950 to 6 November 1951 | Shree Rajendra Prasad |
| 2 | Justice M. P. Sastri | 6 November 1951 to 3 January 1954 | Shree Rajendra Prasad |
| 3 | Justice M. C. Mahajan | 4 January 1954 to 22 December 1954 | Shree Rajendra Prasad |
| 4 | Justice B. K. Mukherjee | 23 December 1954 to 31 January 1956 | Shree Rajendra Prasad |
| 5 | Justice S. R. Das | 1 Febuary 1956 to 30 September 1959 | Shree Rajendra Prasad |
| 6 | Justice B.P. Sinha | 1 Octomber 1959 to 31 January 1964 | Shree Rajendra Prasad |
| 7 | Justice P. B. Gajendragadkar | 1 February 1964 to 15 March 1966 | Shree Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| 8 | Justice A. K. Sarkar | 16 March 1966 to 29 June 1966 | Shree Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| 9 | Justice K. S. Rao | 30 June 1966 to 11 April 1967 | Shree Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| 10 | Justice K. N. Wanchoo | 12 April 1967 to 24 February 1968 | Shree Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| 11 | Justice M. Hidayatuallah | 25 February 1968 to 16 December 1970 | Shree Zakir Husain |
| 12 | Justice J. C. Shah | 17 December 1970 to 21 January 1971 | Shree V. V. Giri |
| 13 | Justice S. M. Sikri | 22 January 1971 to 25 April 1973 | Shree V. V. Giri |
| 14 | Justice A. N. Ray | 26 April 1973 to 28 January 1977 | Shree V. V. Giri |
| 15 | Justice M. H. Beg | 29 January 1977 to 21 February 1978 | Shree Fakhruddin Ali Ahemad |
| 16 | Justice Y. V. Chandrachud | 22 February 1978 to 11 July 1985 | Shree Neelam Sanjiva Reddy |
| 17 | Justice P. N. Bhagvati | 12 July 1985 to 20 December 1986 | Shree Zail Singh |
| 18 | Justice R. S. Pathak | 21 December 1986 to 18 June 1989 | Shree Zail Singh |
| 19 | Justice E. S. Venkataramiah | 19 June 1989 to 17 December 1989 | Shree Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
| 20 | Justice S. Mukherjee | 18 December 1989 to 25 September 1990 | Shree Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
| 21 | Justice Ranganath Mishra | 26 September 1990 to 24 November 1991 | Shree Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
| 22 | Justice K. N. Singh | 25 November 1991 to 12 December 1991 | Shree Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
| 23 | Justice M. H. Kania | 13 December 1991 to 17 November 1992 | Shree Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
| 24 | Justice L.M. Sharma | 18 November 1992 to 11 February 1993 | Shree Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 25 | Justice M. N. Venkatachaliah | 12 February 1993 to 24 October 1994 | Shree Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 26 | Justice A. M. Ahmadi | 25 October 1994 to 24 March 1997 | Shree Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 27 | Justice J. S. Verma | 25 March 1997 to 18 January 1998 | Shree Shankar Dayal Sharma |
| 28 | Justice M. M. Punchi | 18 January 1998 to 9 October 1998 | Shree K. R. Narayan |
| 29 | Justice A. S. Anand | 10 October 1998 to 31 October 2001 | Shree K. R. Narayan |
| 30 | Justice S. P. Bharucha | 1 November 2001 to 6 May 2002 | Shree K. R. Narayan |
| 31 | Justice B. N. Kirpal | 6 May 2002 to 8 November 2002 | Shree K. R. Narayan |
| 32 | Justice G. B. Pattnaik | 8 November 2002 to 18 December 2002 | Shree A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| 33 | Justice V. N. Khare | 19 December 2002 to 2 May 2004 | Shree A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| 34 | Justice S. R. Babu | 2 May 2004 to 1 June 2004 | Shree A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| 35 | Justice R. C. Lahoti | 1 June 2004 to 1 November 2005 | Shree A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| 36 | Justice Y. K. Sabharwal | 1 November 2005 to 14 January 2007 | Shree A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| 37 | Justice K. G. Balakrishna | 14 January 2007 to 11 May 2010 | Shree A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
| 38 | Justice S.H. Kapadia | 12 May 2010 to 28 September 2012 | Shree Pratibha Patil |
| 39 | Justice A. Kabir | 29 September 2012 to 18 July 2013 | Shree Pranab Mukherijee |
| 40 | Justice P. Sathasivam | 19 July 2013 to 28 April 2014 | Shree Pranab Mukherijee |
| 41 | Justice R. M. Lodha | 27 April 2014 to 29 September 2014 | Shree Pranab Mukherijee |
| 42 | Justice H. L. Dattu | 28 September 2014 to 2 December 2016 | Shree Pranab Mukherijee |
| 43 | Justice T. S. Thakur | 3 December 2016 to 3 January 2017 | Shree Pranab Mukherijee |
| 44 | Justice J. S. Khehar | 4 January 2017 to 29 August 2017 | Shree Pranab Mukherijee |
| 45 | Justice Dipak Mishara | 28 August 2017 to 2 October 2018 | Shree Ram Nath Govind |
| 46 | Justice Ranjan Gogoi | 3 October 2018 to 17 November 2019 | Shree Ram Nath Govind |
| 47 | Justice S. A. Bobde | 18 November 2019 to 23 April 2021 | Shree Ram Nath Govind |
| 48 | Justice N. V.Ramana | 24 April 2021 to 26 August 2022 | Shree Ram Nath Govind |
| 49 | Justice U. U. Lalit | 27 August 2022 to 8 November 2022 | Shree Droupadi Murmu |
| 50 | Justice D. Y. Chandrachud | 9 November 2022 to Till the Date | Shree Droupadi Murmu |