Former Chief Justices

Justice Bira Kishore Ray
Elevated to the Bench of Patna High Court in 1945
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From : 26.7.1948
To : 30.10.1951

Justice Bachu Jagannadha Das
Elevated to the Bench of Orissa High Court on 26.7.1948
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From : 31.10.1951
To : 03.03.1953

Justice Lingaraj Panigrahi
Elevated to the Bench of Orissa High Court on 26.7.1948
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From : 04.03.1953
To : 21.3.1956

Justice Khaleel Ahmed
Elevated to the Bench of Patna High Court on 23.4.1951
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From 18.01.1965
To : 05.04.1967

Justice Satya Bhusan Barman
Elevated to the Bench of Orissa High Court on 3.2.1958
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From : 06.04.1967
To : 30.04.1969

Justice Gati Krushna Misra
Elevated to the Bench of Orissa High Court on 30.1.1962
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From : 01.05.1969
To : 30.10.1975

Justice Siba Narain Sankar
Elevated to the Bench of Delhi High Court on 25.5.1967
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From : 01.11.1975
To : 12.10.1977

Justice Sukanta Kishore Ray
Elevated to the Bench of Orissa High Court on 25.10.1967
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From : 13.10.1977
To : 04.11.1980

Justice Ranganath Mishra
Elevated as Judge Orissa HC on 4.7.1969
Chief Justice of Orissa HC on 16.1.1981
Elevated as Judge, Supreme Court on 15.3.1983
Chief Justice of India on 6.10.1990

Justice Hari Lal Agrawal
Elevated as Judge of Patna High Court on 12.4.1973
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From : 01.05.1986
To : 31.7.1989

Justice Banwari Lal Hansaria
Elevated as Judge of Gauhati High Court on 12.2.1979
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From : 22.2.1990 To : 13.12.1993
Judge of Supreme Court of India from 14.12.1993 – 25.12.1996

Justice Girish Thakurlal Nanavati
Puisne Judge of Orissa HC from 14.12.1993 – 30.1.1994,
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From : 31.1.1994 To : 27.9.1994
Elevated as Judge of Supreme Court of India on 06.03.1995

Justice Vallabhdas Aidan Mohta
Elevated as Judge of Bombay High Court on 27.4.1979
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From 28.09.1994
To : 25.4.1995

Justice Sailendu Nath Phukan
Elevated as Judge of Gauhati High Court on 11.10.1985
Transferred to Himachal Pradesh High Court on 1.3.1995
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From : 02.08.1996 – 27.01.1999

Justice Biswanath Agrawal
Elevated as Judge of Patna High Court on 17.11.1986
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From : 18.11.1999 To : 18.10.2000
Elevated as Judge of Supreme Court of India on 19.10.2000

Justice Nyaka Yellapa Hanumanthappa
Elevated as Judge of Karnataka High Court on 29.3.1990
Transferred to Andhra Pradesh High Court on 28.4.1994
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From : 17.2.2001 To : 24.9.2001

Justice Perubhemba Krishna Ayer Balasubramanyan
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From : 5.12.2001 To : 10.3.2003
Transferred to Jharkhand High Court as Chief Justice on 11.3.2003
Elevated as Judge of Supreme Court of India on 27.8.2004

Justice Sujit Barman Roy
Elevated as Judge of Gauhati High Court on 14.11.1991
Transferred to Calcutta High Court on 3.10.1997
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From 09.04.2003 – 21.01.2007

Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court on 02.03.2007
Transferred to Madras High Court as Chief Justice on 19.05.2008
Elevated as Judge of SC on 17.12.2008,Transferred to Patna HC on 4.4.1994
Again transferred to Calcutta High Court on 1.8.2000

Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan
Date of Birth 02-07-1949
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court on 16.7.2008
Elevated as Judge of Supreme Court of India on 11.5.2009.

Justice Bilal Nazki
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From : 14.11.2009 To : 17.11.2009.

Justice Venkate Gowda Gopala Gowda
Chief Justice of Orissa High Court
From : 25.03.2010
Elevated as Judge Supreme Court on 24.12.2012