Chief Justice of Bangladesh

Chief Justice of Bangladesh is the chief of the judges of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. The Chief Justice is picked by the President of Bangladesh.

List of chief justices of Bangladesh

N	Name	Period of office		Appointing president
1	Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem	16 December 1972	5 November 1975	Abu Sayeed Chowdhury
2	Syed A. B. Mahmud Hossain	18 November 1975	31 January 1978	Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem
3	Kemaluddin Hossain	1 February 1978	11 April 1982	Ziaur Rahman
4	Fazle Kaderi Mohammad Abdul Munim	12 April 1982	30 November 1989	Ahsanuddin Chowdhury
5	Badrul Haider Chowdhury	1 December 1989	1 January 1990	Hussain Muhammad Ershad
6	Shahabuddin Ahmed	14 January 1990	31 January 1995
7	M.H. Rahman	1 February 1995	30 April 1995	Abdur Rahman Biswas
8	ATM Afzal	1 May 1995	31 May 1999
9	Mustafa Kamal	1 June 1999	31 December 1999	Shahabuddin Ahmed
10	Latifur Rahman	1 January 2000	28 February 2001
11	Mahmudul Amin Choudhury	1 March 2001	17 June 2002
12	Mainur Reza Chouwdhury	18 June 2002	22 June 2003	Badruddoza Chowdhury
13	Khondokar Mahmud Hasan	23 June 2003	26 January 2004	Iajuddin Ahmed
14	Syed Jillur Rahim Mudasser Husain	27 January 2004	28 February 2007
15	Md. Ruhul Amin	1 March 2007	31 May 2008
16	M M Ruhul Amin	1 June 2008	22 December 2009
17	Md. Tafazzul Islam	23 December 2009	7 February 2010	Zillur Rahman
18	Mohammad Fazlul Karim	8 February 2010	30 September 2010
19	A.B.M. Khairul Haque	1 October 2010	17 May 2011
20	Md. Muzammel Hossain	18 May 2011	16 January 2015
21	Surendra Kumar Sinha	17 January 2015	11 November 2017	Abdul Hamid
22	Md. Abdul Wahhab Miah	11 November 2017	2 February 2018
23	Syed Mahmud Hossain	2 February 2018	Incumbent

References

• Chief Justice Archived 2012-03-12 at the Wayback Machine. Banglapedia (National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh)