Ranjan Gogoi

Ranjan Gogoi (born 18 November 1954) is an Indian jurist and advocate who served as the 46th Chief Justice of India from 2018 to 2019 and as a Member of the Rajya Sabha from 2020 to 2026. He previously served as a judge of the Supreme Court of India from 2012 to 2018. Gogoi was a judge of the Gauhati High Court from 2001 to 2010, and of the Punjab and Haryana High Court from September 2010 to February 2011 where he later was the Chief Justice from 2011 to 2012. Born and raised in Dibrugarh, Gogoi is from a political family and descends from the Ahom dynasty. His maternal grandparents were both state legislators; his grandmother, Padma Kumari Gohain, was one of the first female MLAs and one of the first female ministers in Assam. His father, Keshab Chandra Gogoi served as the Chief Minister of Assam for two months in 1982. Ranjan Gogoi is the only Chief Justice of India to have been the son of a Chief Minister. His mother, Shanti Priya Gogoi, was a prominent social activist who founded an NGO, SEWA, in 2000. One of five children, Gogoi's four siblings also rose to prominence in their respective careers, most notably his elder brother, Anjan, who served as an Air Marshal in the Indian Air Force. Gogoi studied at Cotton University and later completed his higher studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. He enrolled at the bar in 1978 and practised at the Gauhati High Court under advocate JP Bhattacharjee. Gogoi began to practise independently in 1991 and became a senior counsel in 1999 at the court, before being appointed a judge in 2001. He later transferred to the Punjab and Haryana High Court, where during his tenure he made orders which questioned...