| Sl.No. | Name | Took Office | Left Office |
| 1 | Sir John Austen Hubback | 4/1/1936 | 8/11/1938 |
| 2 | George Townsend Boag (Acting) | 8/11/1938 | 12/7/1938 |
| 3 | Sir John Austen Hubback | 12/8/1938 | 3/31/1941 |
| 4 | Sir Howthorne Lewis | 4/1/1941 | 3/31/1946 |
| 5 | Sir Chandulal Trivedi | 4/1/1946 | 8/14/1947 |
| 6 | Dr. Kailash Nath Katju | 8/15/1947 | 6/20/1948 |
| 7 | M.Asaf Ali | 6/21/1948 | 5/5/1951 |
| 8 | V.P. Menon(Acting) | 5/6/1951 | 7/17/1951 |
| 9 | M.Asaf Ali | 7/18/1951 | 6/6/1952 |
| 10 | Saiyid Fazl Ali | 6/7/1952 | 2/9/1954 |
| 11 | P. S. Kumaraswamy Raja | 2/10/1954 | 9/11/1956 |
| 12 | Bhim Sen Sachar | 9/12/1956 | 7/31/1957 |
| 13 | Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar | 7/31/1957 | 9/15/1962 |
| 14 | Dr. Ajudhia Nath Khosla | 9/16/1962 | 8/5/1966 |
| 15 | Khaleell Ahommed (Acting) | 8/5/1966 | 9/11/1966 |
| 16 | Dr. Ajudhia Nath Khosla | 9/12/1966 | 1/30/1968 |
| 17 | Dr. Shaukatullah Shah Ansari | 1/31/1968 | 9/20/1971 |
| 18 | Sardar Jojendra Singh(Acting) | 9/20/1971 | 6/30/1972 |
| 19 | Justice Gatikrishna Mishra | 7/1/1972 | 11/8/1972 |
| 20 | Basappa Danappa Jatti | 11/8/1972 | 8/20/1974 |
| 21 | Justice Gatikrishna Mishra | 8/21/1974 | 10/25/1974 |
| 22 | A A Khan | 10/25/1974 | 4/17/1976 |
| 23 | Justice Shiva Narayin Sankar (Acting) | 4/17/1976 | 2/7/1977 |
| 24 | Harcharan Singh Brar | 2/7/1977 | 9/22/1977 |
| 25 | Bhagwat Dayal Sharma | 9/23/1977 | 4/30/1980 |
| 26 | Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha | 4/30/1980 | 9/30/1980 |
| 27 | Justice S.K. Ray (Acting) | 10/1/1980 | 11/3/1980 |
| 28 | Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha | 11/4/1980 | 6/24/1982 |
| 29 | Justice R.N. Mishra (Acting) | 6/25/1982 | 8/31/1982 |
| 30 | Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha | 9/1/1982 | 8/17/1983 |
| 31 | Bishambhar Nath Pande | 8/17/1983 | 11/20/1988 |
| 32 | Prof.SaiyidNurul Hasan | 11/20/1988 | 2/6/1990 |
| 33 | Yagya Datt Sharma | 2/7/1990 | 2/1/1993 |
| 34 | Prof. Saiyid Nurul Hasan | 2/1/1993 | 5/31/1993 |
| 35 | B. Satyanarayan Reddy | 6/1/1993 | 6/17/1995 |
| 36 | Gopala Ramanujam | 6/18/1995 | 1/30/1997 |
| 37 | K.V. Raghunatha Reddy | 1/31/1997 | 2/12/1997 |
| 38 | Gopala Ramanujam | 2/13/1997 | 12/13/1997 |
| 39 | K.V. Raghunatha Reddy | 12/13/1997 | 4/27/1998 |
| 40 | Dr. C. Rangarajan | 4/27/1998 | 11/14/1999 |
| 41 | M.M.Rajendran | 11/15/1999 | 11/17/2004 |
| 42 | Rameshwar Thakur | 11/18/2004 | 8/21/2007 |
| 43 | Murlidhar Chandrakant Bhandare | 8/21/2007 | Incumbent |
