Hyderabad : Justice Satish Chandra Sharma has been appointed the new Chief Justice of the Telangana High Court. He is the current acting Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court. The appointment follows the President of India’s approval.
Justice Satish Chandra Sharma was born on 30 November 1961 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. His father, Dr. B. N. Sharma, apart from being known as a well-established agriculturalist was also a renowned professor of Jabalpur University and subsequently the Vice-Chancellor of Barkatullah University, Bhopal. His mother Shanti Sharma was a principal in Maharani Lakshmibai Higher Secondary School and also worked as the district education officer at Jabalpur before retirement.
1981, he enrolled as a law student in Dr. Hari Singh Gour University and graduated on top of the class in 1984 with three gold medals. He started working as an advocate on 1 September 1984 and practiced in Constitutional, service, civil, and criminal matters before the High Court of Madhya Pradesh in Jabalpur. He was appointed the additional Central government counsel on 28 May 1994 and was appointed senior panel counsel by the Central government on 28 June 2004.
In 2003, he was appointed a senior advocate by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh at the young age of 42 and was one of the youngest senior advocates of Madhya Pradesh High Court. He was then elevated as a judge of the MP High Court on 18 January 2008 and appointed a permanent judge on 15 January 2010. He was transferred to Karnataka High Court on 4 January and assumed charge as the acting Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court on 31 August.
