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List of former Chief Justices

High Court of Mysore

Chief Justice Term

Charles George Plumer 1884 – July 1890
Sir T. R. A. Thumboo Chetty July 1890 – 4 November 1895
James William Best 4 November 1895–1907
Stanley Ismay 1908–1912
P. Mahadevayya 1931–1934

High Court of Karnataka

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1 R.Venkataramaiah 1 November 1956 – 16 July 1957
2 S. R. Das Gupta 25 July 1957 – 13 August 1961
3 Nittoor Srinivasa Rau 29 March 1962 – 7 August 1963
- H. Hombe Gowda (acting) 20 January 1964 – 1 August 1969
- A. R. Somanath Iyer (acting) 1 August 1969 – 30 August 1969
- M. Sadasivayya (acting) 31 August 1969 – 23 October 1969
- A. R. Somanath Iyer (acting) 24 October 1969 – 22 November 1969
4 A. R. Somanath Iyer 23 November 1969 – 29 December 1969
5 M. Sadasivayya 30 December 1969 – 16 September 1970
6 A. Narayana Pai 17 September 1970 – 6 June 1973
7 G. K. Govinda Bhat 7 June 1973 – 14 December 1977
8 D. M. Chandrashekar 22 March 1978 – 25 September 1982
- K. Bhimaiah (acting) 26 September 1982 – 27 October 1982
9 K. Bhimaiah 28 October 1982 – 10 April 1983
10 V. S. Malimath 6 February 1984 – 24 October 1985
- Kalmanje Jagannatha Shetty (acting) 24 October 1985 – 27 August 1986
11 Prem Chand Jain 28 August 1986 – 16 September 1989
12 S. Mohan 26 October 1989 – 7 October 1991
13 S. P. Bharucha 1 January 1991 – 30 June 1992
14 S. B. Majumdar 2 July 1993 – 13 September 1994
15 G. T. Nanavati 28 September 1994 – 4 March 1995
16 M. L. Pendse 28 July 1995 – 25 March 1996
17 S. A. Hakeem 3 May 1996 – 9 May 1996
18 R. P. Sethi 29 June 1996 – 6 January 1999
- Y. Bhaskar Rao (acting) 17 January 1999 – 8 March 1999
19 Y. Bhaskar Rao 9 March 1999 – 26 June 2000
- Ashok Bhan (acting) 27 June 2000 – 20 October 2000
20 P. V. Reddi 21 October 2000 – 16 August 2001
21 Nagendra Kumar Jain 31 August 2001 – 20 October 2004
22 N. K. Sodhi 19 November 2004 – 29 November 2005
23 Cyriac Joseph 7 January 2006 – 6 July 2008
24 P. D. Dinakaran 8 August 2008 – 7 August 2010
25 Jagdish Singh Khehar 8 August 2010 – 12 September 2011
26 Vikramajit Sen 24 December 2011 – 23 December 2012
- K Shridhar Rao (acting) 24 December 2012 - March 2013
27 Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela March 2013 - 31 May 2015
28 Subhro Kamal Mukherjee 1 June 2015 – 9 October 2017
- H. G. Ramesh (acting) 10 October 2017 – 11 February 2018
30 Dinesh Maheshwari 12 February 2018 – 17 January 2019

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- Lingappa Narayana Swamy (acting) 18 January 2019 – 9 May 2019
31 Abhay Shreeniwas Oka 10 May 2019 – Incumbent

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