| S.No. | Name of Chief Justice | Date of Appointment | Tenure as C.J. of M.P. High Court |
| 1 | Hon'ble Shri Justice M. Hidayatullah | 01.11.1956 | 12.12.1958 |
| 2 | Hon'ble Shri Justice G. P. Bhut | 13.12.1958 | 22.09.1959 |
| 3 | Hon'ble Shri Justice P. V. Dixit | 22.09.1959 | 18.03.1969 |
| 4 | Hon'ble Shri Justice Bishambhar Dayal | 19.03.1969 | 13.09.1972 |
| 5 | Hon'ble Shri Justice P. K. Tare | 14.09.1972 | 10.10.1975 |
| 6 | Hon'ble Shri Justice Shiv Dayal Shrivastava | 11.10.1975 | 28.02.1978 |
| 7 | Hon'ble Shri Justice A. P. Sen | 28.02.1978 | 14.07.1978 |
| 8 | Hon'ble Shri Justice G. P. Singh | 27.07.1978 | 03.01.1984 |
| 9 | Hon'ble Shri Justice G. L. Oza | 01.12.1984 | 27.10.1985 |
| 10 | Hon'ble Shri Justice J. S. Verma | 14.06.1986 | 27.08.1986 |
| 11 | Hon'ble Shri Justice N. D. Ojha | 08.01.1987 | 18.01.1988 |
| 12 | Hon'ble Shri Justice G. G. Sohani | 21.10.1989 | 23.10.1989 |
| 13 | Hon'ble Shri Justice S. K. Jha | 27.10.1989 | 15.12.1993 |
| 14 | Hon'ble Shri Justice U. L. Bhat | 15.12.1993 | 10.10.1995 |
| 15 | Hon'ble Shri Justice A. K. Mathur | 03.02.1996 | 21.12.1999 |
| 16 | Hon'ble Shri Justice Bhawani Singh | 24.02.2000 | 19.08.2003 |
| 17 | Hon'ble Shri Justice Kumar Rajaratnam | 06.09.2003 | 12.03.2004 |
| 18 | Hon'ble Shri Justice R. V. Raveendran | 08.07.2004 | 08.09.2005 |
| 19 | Hon'ble Shri Justice A. K. Patnaik | 02.10.2005 | 16.11.2009 |
| 20 | Hon'ble Shri Justice S. Rafat Alam | 20.12.2009 | 04.08.2011 |
| 21 | Hon'ble Shri Justice S. A. Bobde | 16.10.2012 | 11.04.2013 |
| 22 | Hon'ble Shri Justice A. M. Khanwilkar | 24.11.2013 | 12.05.2016 |
| 23 | Hon'ble Shri Justice Hemant Gupta | 18.03.2017 | 01.11.2018 |
| 24 | Hon'ble Shri Justice S. K. Seth (EXP.) | 14.11.2018 | 09.06.2019 |
| 25 | Hon'ble Shri Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal | 03.11.2019 | 29.09.2020 |
| 26 | Hon'ble Shri Justice Mohammad Rafiq | 03.01.2021 | 14.10.2021 |
| S.No. | Name of Acting Chief Justice | Date of Appointment | Tenure as Acting C.J. of M.P. High Court |
| 1 | Hon'ble Shri Justice G. P. Singh | 14.07.1978 | 26.07.1978 |
| 2 | Hon’ble Shri Justice G. L. Oza | 03.01.1984 | 30.11.1984 |
| 3 | Hon’ble Shri Justice J. S. Verma | 27.10.1985 | 13.06.1986 |
| 4 | Hon’ble Shri Justice G. G. Sohani | 28.08.1986 | 07.01.1987 |
| 5 | Hon’ble Shri Justice G. G. Sohani | 19.01.1988 | 20.10.1989 |
| 6 | Hon’ble Shri Justice A. K. Mathur | 11.10.1995 | 02.02.1996 |
| 7 | Hon’ble Shri Justice D. P. S. Chauhan | 22.12.1999 | 23.02.2000 |
| 8 | Hon’ble Shri Justice Rajeev Gupta | 20.08.2003 | 05.09.2003 |
| 9 | Hon’ble Shri Justice Rajeev Gupta | 13.03.2004 | 07.07.2004 |
| 10 | Hon’ble Shri Justice Deepak Verma | 09.09.2005 | 01.10.2005 |
| 11 | Hon’ble Shri Justice R. S. Garg | 17.11.2009 | 19.12.2009 |
| 12 | Hon’ble Shri Justice Sushil Harkauli | 05.08.2011 | 11.10.2012 |
| 13 | Hon’ble Shri Justice K. K. Lahoti | 12.04.2013 | 23.11.2013 |
| 14 | Hon’ble Shri Justice Rajendra Menon | 13.05.2016 | 14.03.2017 |
| 15 | Hon’ble Shri Justice S. K. Seth (EXP.) | 15.03.2017 | 17.03.2017 |
| 16 | Hon’ble Shri Justice S. K. Seth (EXP.) | 02.11.2018 | 13.11.2018 |
| 17 | Hon’ble Shri Justice R. S. Jha | 10.06.2019 | 05.10.2019 |
| 18 | Hon’ble Shri Justice Sanjay Yadav | 06.10.2019 | 02.11.2019 |
| 19 | Hon’ble Shri Justice Sanjay Yadav | 30.09.2020 | 02.01.2021 |