List of Acting Chief Justice of Sri Lanka

Chief Justice of Sri Lanka අග්‍ර විනිශ්චයකාර
Incumbent None
Style	The Honourable Justice
Appointer	President of Sri Lanka
Term length	Until the age of sixty-five years
Website	Supreme Court of Sri Lanka

The Provisional & Acting Chief Justice of Sri Lanka is the temporary head of the judicial system of Sri Lanka as the chief judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. The Chief Justice is one of ten Supreme Court justices; the other nine are the Puisne Justices of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka.

Provisional & acting Chief Justices

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	Name	Province	Term	Elevated by
	Alexander Johnston §		3 April 1806 - 5 April 1807
	William Coke§		6 March 1809 - 1811
	Sir Charles Marshall		18 February 1833 - 1836
7	Sergeant Sir William Rough		9 March 1836 - April 1836
9	Sergeant Sir William Rough		April 1837 - 1838
	P. J. Sterling		1859 - 1860
	Richard Morgan		1875	Gregory
	C. H. Stewart		1875 - 1876
	Sir George Anderson		1876 - 1877
	Lovell Burchett Clarence		1882
	Sir Alfred Lascelles		1906
	William Thomas Porter		1921
	Francis Soertsz		1939
	Francis Soertsz		1945 and 1946
	E.R. de Fonseka		1960 and 1962
	Chellappah Nagalingam	Northern Province	1954

See also

• List of Chief Justices of Sri Lanka
• List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
• List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka by court composition

External links

• Supreme Court of Sri Lanka