Gopal Ballav Pattanaik | |
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32nd Chief Justice of India | |
In office 8 November 2002[1] – 18 December 2002 | |
Appointed by | A. P. J. Abdul Kalam |
Preceded by | Bhupinder Nath Kirpal |
Succeeded by | V. N. Khare[2] |
Personal details | |
Born | Cuttack, Odisha, India | 19 December 1937
Citizenship | Indian |
Occupation | Jurist |
Awards | Utkal Ratna 2021 |
Gopal Ballav Pattanaik (born 19 December 1937) is an Indian lawyer and later a jurist who served over a period of 19 years in the bench of the Odisha High Court as a permanent judge, as chief justice of the Patna High Court, Judge of the Supreme Court of India and as the 32nd[3] Chief Justice of India.[4] [5]
Pattanaik grew up in Cuttack, Odisha, where he later studied at the Ravenshaw College and then graduated in science from Ewing Christian College, Allahabad University. He then went on to earn his degree in Law from Madhusudan Law College at Cuttack affiliated to the Utkal University in Odisha.
In 2002, Pattanaik was appointed Chief Justice of India by the President Shri A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.