Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud (born 11 November 1959) is an Indian jurist, who is the 50th and Current Chief Justice of India serving since November 2022. He was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of India in May 2016. He has also previously served as the chief justice of the Allahabad High Court from 2013 to 2016 and as a judge of the Bombay High Court from 2000 to 2013. He is also a former executive chairperson (ex officio) of the National Legal Services Authority.
Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud | |
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Chandrachud in January 2024 | |
| 50th Chief Justice of India | |
| Assumed office 9 November 2022 | |
| Appointed by | President of India |
| Preceded by | Uday Umesh Lalit |
| Judge of the Supreme Court of India | |
| In office 13 May 2016 – 8 November 2022 | |
| Nominated by | T. S. Thakur |
| Appointed by | Pranab Mukherjee |
| Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court | |
| In office 31 October 2013 – 12 May 2016 | |
| Nominated by | P. Sathasivam |
| Appointed by | Pranab Mukherjee |
| Judge of the Bombay High Court | |
| In office 29 March 2000 – 30 October 2013 | |
| Nominated by | Adarsh Sein Anand |
| Appointed by | K. R. Narayanan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 November 1959 Bombay, Bombay State, India (present-day Mumbai, Maharashtra) |
| Spouse(s) |
Rashmi Chandrachud (died 2007)Kalpana Das |
| Children | Abhinav Chandrachud, Chintan Chandrachud, Priyanka, Mahi (Foster Daughters) |
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| Alma mater | University of Delhi (BA, LLB) Harvard University (LLM, SJD) |
The only child of India's longest-serving chief justice, Y. V. Chandrachud, he was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University and has practiced as a lawyer for Sullivan & Cromwell and in the Bombay High Court.
He has been part of benches that delivered landmark judgments such as the electoral bond scheme verdict, the Ram Janmabhoomi verdict, privacy verdict, decriminalisation of homosexuality, Sabarimala case, same-sex marriage case and on revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir. He has visited the universities of Mumbai, Oklahoma, Harvard, Yale and others as a professor and National Law School of India University as the de facto Chancellor.