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Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud

Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud
Chandrachud in January 2024
50th Chief Justice of India
In office
9 November 2022 – 10 November 2024
Appointed byDroupadi Murmu
Preceded byUday Umesh Lalit
Succeeded bySanjiv Khanna
Judge of the Supreme Court of India
In office
13 May 2016 – 8 November 2022
Nominated byT. S. Thakur
Appointed byPranab Mukherjee
Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court
In office
31 October 2013 – 12 May 2016[1]
Nominated byP. Sathasivam
Appointed byPranab Mukherjee
Judge of the Bombay High Court
In office
29 March 2000 – 30 October 2013
Nominated byAdarsh Sein Anand
Appointed byK. R. Narayanan
Personal details
Born (1959-11-11) 11 November 1959 (age 65)[2]
Bombay, Bombay State (present–day Mumbai, Maharashtra), India
Spouse(s)
Rashmi Chandrachud
(died 2007)

Kalpana Das
ChildrenAbhinav Chandrachud, Chintan Chandrachud, Priyanka, Mahi (Foster Daughters)
Parent
Alma materUniversity of Delhi (BA, LLB)
Harvard University (LLM, SJD)

Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud (born 11 November 1959) is an Indian jurist, who served as the 50th Chief Justice of India from 9 November 2022 to 10 November 2024. He was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of India in May 2016.[3][4] 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 also served as the ex-officio Patron-in-Chief of the National Legal Services Authority[5] and the de facto Chancellor of the National Law School of India University.

The second 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, 2019 Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya dispute, 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.

  1. ^ "Supreme Court of India: Chief Justice & Judges". supremecourtofindia.nic.in. Archived from the original on 30 November 2017. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Hon'ble Dr. Justice Dhananjaya Yashwant Chandrachud (CJ)". allahabadhighcourt.in. Archived from the original on 12 May 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
  3. ^ "Justice DY Chandrachud, Set to Become CJI in 2022, Finds Place in All Important Matters of SC". News18. 10 November 2019. Archived from the original on 22 January 2022. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Justice D.Y. Chandrachud appointed 50th Chief Justice of India". The Hindu. 17 October 2022. Archived from the original on 17 October 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Justice D.Y. Chandrachud appointed as the executive chairman of National Legal Services Authority". The Hindu. 3 September 2022. ISSN 0971-751X. Archived from the original on 3 September 2022. Retrieved 2 March 2023.

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