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Hon'ble Ms. Chief Justice (Retd.) Sonia Giridhar Gokani | |
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| Chief Justice ofGujarat High Court | |
| In office 16 February 2023 – 25 February 2023 | |
| Nominated by | Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud |
| Appointed by | Droupadi Murmu |
| ActingChief Justice ofGujarat High Court | |
| In office 13 February 2023 – 15 February 2023 | |
| Appointed by | Droupadi Murmu |
| Judge ofGujarat High Court | |
| In office 17 February 2011 – 15 February 2023 | |
| Nominated by | S. H. Kapadia |
| Appointed by | Pratibha Patil |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1961-02-26)26 February 1961 (age 64) |
Sonia Giridhar Gokani (born 26 February 1961) is a retired Indian judge and formerChief Justice ofGujarat High Court. She has previously served as anActingChief Justice as well as judge ofGujarat High Court.
Justice Sonia Gokani was born on 26 February 1961 inJamnagar.Gujarat, India. She studiedB. Sc. inMicrobiology and later completedLLB andLLM.[1]
She served as a part-time lecturer at K.P Shah Law College, Jamnagar.[1] She served as a member of District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum for five years.[1]
She joined as a judge of the City Civil and Sessions Court of Ahmedabad on 10 July 1995. She served as the judge of the Special Court under the Anti-Terrorism law of Gujarat from 2003 to 2008. She also worked as the judge of Special Court of theCentral Bureau of Investigation.[1]
In 2008, she was appointed the Registrar for the recruitment department of the Gujarat High Court.[1] She later served as the Registrar of information technology and infrastructure department for one and half years.[1] She also taught at Gujarat State Judicial Academy.[1] She was appointed the Additional Judge of the Gujarat High Court on 17 February 2011 and was made Permanent Judge on 28 January 2013.[1] She was appointed asActingChief Justice ofGujarat High Court on 13 February 2023. She was appointed asChief Justice ofGujarat High Court on 16 February 2023.
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