Altamas Kabir

Altamas Kabir
Official portrait, September 2005.
39th Chief Justice of India
In office
29 September 2012  18 July 2013
Appointed byPranab Mukherjee
Preceded byS. H. Kapadia
Succeeded byP. Sathasivam
Judge of the Supreme Court of India
In office
9 September 2005  29 September 2012
Nominated byRamesh Chandra Lahoti
Appointed byA. P. J. Abdul Kalam
3rd Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court
In office
1 March 2005  8 September 2005
Nominated byRamesh Chandra Lahoti
Appointed byA. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Preceded byP. K. Balasubramanyan
Succeeded byNelavoy Dhinakar
Judge of the Calcutta High Court
In office
6 August 1990  28 February 2005
Nominated bySabyasachi Mukharji
Appointed byRamaswamy Venkataraman
Personal details
Born(1948-07-19)19 July 1948
Calcutta (now Kolkata), West Bengal, Dominion of India (present-day India)
Died19 February 2017(2017-02-19) (aged 68)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta, Kolkata

Altamas Kabir (19 July 1948 – 19 February 2017) was an Indian lawyer and judge who served as the 39th Chief Justice of India.