Chief Justices of Karnataka High Court

Name	Period
Justice R. Venkataramaiah	1956–1957
Justice S.R. Das Gupta	1957–1961
Justice Nittoor Srinivasa Rao	1962–1963
Justice H. Hombe Gowda	1964–1969
Justice A.R. Somnath Aiyar	Nov 1969 – Dec 1969
Justice M. Sadashiviah	1969–1970
Justice A. Narayana Pai	1970–1973
Justice G.K. Govinda Bhat	1973–1977
Justice D.M. Chandrashekar	1978–1982
Justice K. Bhimaiah	1982–1983
Justice V.S. Malimath	1984–1985
Justice Premchand Jain	1986–1989
Justice S. Mohan	1989–1991
Justice S.P.B. Baroocha	1991–1992
Justice B.M. Mujumdar	1993–1994
Justice G.T. Nanavati	1994–1995
Justice M.L. Pendse	1995–1996
Justice S.A. Hakeem	Mar 3, 1996 – May 9, 1996
Justice R.P. Sethi	1996–1999
Justice P.V. Reddy	2000–2001
Justice N.K. Jain	2001–2004
Justice Navadeep Kumar Sodhi	2004–2005
Justice Cyriac Joseph	2006–2008
Justice P.D. Dinakaran	2008–2010
Justice J.S. Khehar	2010–2011
Justice Vikramajit Sen	2011–2012
Justice D.H. Waghela	2013–2015
Justice S.K. Mukherjee	2016–2017
Justice Dinesh Maheshwari	2018–2019
Justice A.S. Oka	2019–2021
Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi	2021–2022
Justice Prasanna B. Varale	Oct 2022 – Present