Chief Justice of Singapore

NominatorPrime Minister of SingaporeAppointerPresident of SingaporeTerm lengthTenure until the age of 65Constituting instrumentConstitution of Singapore, Article 94Inaugural holderWee Chong JinFormation9 August 1965; 58 years ago (1965-08-09)Websitewww.supremecourt.gov.sg

The chief justice of Singapore is the presiding member of the Supreme Court of Singapore. It is the highest office in the judicial system of Singapore, appointed by the president, on the advice of the prime minister. The incumbent chief justice is Sundaresh Menon, who took office on 6 November 2012. He was the first chief justice to be born in Singapore.

History

Prior to 1959, the chief justice was appointed by the governor of Singapore, when Singapore was still a Crown colony part of the British Empire.

List of chief justices (1965–present)

Chief justices of the Republic of Singapore

#	Portrait	Chief Justice of the Republic of Singapore	Took office	Left office
1		Wee Chong Jin	9 August 1965	27 September 1990
2		Yong Pung How	28 September 1990	10 April 2006
3		Chan Sek Keong	11 April 2006	5 November 2012
4		Sundaresh Menon	6 November 2012	Incumbent

List of chief justices (1867–1965)

Chief justices of the Straits Settlements

#	Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements	Took office	Left office
1	Sir Peter Benson Maxwell	1867	1871
2	Sir Thomas Sidgreaves	1871	1886
3	Sir Theodore Thomas Ford	1886	1890
4	Sir Edward Loughlin O'Malley	1890	1892
5	Sir Elliot Bovill	1892	1893
6	Sir John Winfield Bonser	1893	1893
7	Sir W. H. Lionel Cox	1893	1906
8	Sir William Henry Hyndman Jones	1906	1914
9	Sir John Alexander Strachey Bucknill	1914	1920
10	Sir G. Aubrey Goodman	1920	1920
11	Sir Walter Shaw	1921	1925
12	Sir James William Murison	1925	1933
13	Sir Walter Huggard	1933	1936
14	Sir Percy Alexander McElwaine	1936	1946

Chief justices of the Colony of Singapore

#	Chief Justice of the Colony of Singapore	Took office	Left office
–	Cecil William Victor Carey	1946	1946
1	Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley	1946	1955
2	Sir John Whyatt	1955	1958
3	Sir Alan Rose, KCMG	1958	1959

Chief justices of the State of Singapore

#	Chief Justice of the State of Singapore	Took office	Left office
1	Sir Alan Rose	1959	1963
2	Wee Chong Jin	5 January 1963	8 August 1965

See also

• President of Singapore
• Prime Minister of Singapore
• Attorney-General of Singapore

External links

• List of former judges Archived 2017-09-24 at the Wayback Machine