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Chief Justice of the
Republic of Singapore
Chief Justice of the; Republic of Singapore
	Incumbent; Sundaresh Menon; since 6 November 2012
	Supreme Court of Singapore
Style	Chief Justice; (informal); The Honourable; (formal);
Nominator	Prime Minister of Singapore
Appointer	President of Singapore
Term length	Tenure until the age of 65
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Singapore, Article 94
Inaugural holder	Wee Chong Jin
Formation	9 August 1965; 59 years ago
Website	www.supremecourt.gov.sg

The chief justice of Singapore is the presiding member of the Supreme Court of Singapore. It is the highest office in the judicial system of Singapore, appointed by the president, on the advice of the prime minister. The incumbent chief justice is Sundaresh Menon, who took office on 6 November 2012. He was the first chief justice to be born in Singapore.

History

Prior to 1959, the chief justice was appointed by the governor of Singapore, when Singapore was still a Crown colony part of the British Empire.

List of chief justices (1965–present)

Chief justices of the Republic of Singapore

#	Chief Justice of the Republic of Singapore	Took office	Left office
1	Wee Chong Jin	9 August 1965	27 September 1990
2	Yong Pung How	28 September 1990	10 April 2006
3	Chan Sek Keong	11 April 2006	5 November 2012
4	Sundaresh Menon	6 November 2012	Incumbent

List of chief justices (1867–1965)

Chief justices of the Straits Settlements

#	Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements	Took office	Left office
1	Sir Peter Benson Maxwell	1867	1871
2	Sir Thomas Sidgreaves	1871	1886
3	Sir Theodore Thomas Ford	1886	1890
4	Sir Edward Loughlin O'Malley	1890	1892
5	Sir Elliot Bovill	1892	1893
6	Sir John Winfield Bonser	1893	1893
7	Sir W. H. Lionel Cox	1893	1906
8	Sir William Henry Hyndman Jones	1906	1914
9	Sir John Alexander Strachey Bucknill	1914	1920
10	Sir G. Aubrey Goodman	1920	1920
11	Sir Walter Shaw	1921	1925
12	Sir James William Murison	1925	1933
13	Sir Walter Huggard	1933	1936
14	Sir Percy Alexander McElwaine	1936	1946

Chief justices of the Colony of Singapore

#	Chief Justice of the Colony of Singapore	Took office	Left office
–	Cecil William Victor Carey	1946	1946
1	Sir Charles Murray-Aynsley	1946	1955
2	Sir John Whyatt	1955	1958
3	Sir Alan Rose, KCMG	1958	1959

Chief justices of the State of Singapore

#	Chief Justice of the State of Singapore	Took office	Left office
1	Sir Alan Rose	1959	1963
2	Wee Chong Jin	5 January 1963	8 August 1965

External links

List of former judges Archived 2017-09-24 at the Wayback Machine

Constitution of the Republic of Singapore
Text of the Constitution at Singapore Statutes Online
General principles	Exclusion of judicial review Remedies Representative democracy Rule of law Separation of powers
Fundamental liberties	Article 9 Article 10 Article 11 Article 12 Article 13 Article 14 Article 15 Article 16 Right to vote
The Government	President Cabinet Prime Minister Attorney-General The Reserves
The Legislature	President Parliament Speaker Elections Presidential General By-elections Leader of the Opposition Group Representation Constituency Non-constituency Member of Parliament Nominated Member of Parliament
The Presidential Council for Minority Rights	Presidential Council for Minority Rights
The Judiciary	Supreme Court Court of Appeal High Court State Courts Chief Justice Judicial officers Judicial independence
The Public Service	Singapore Civil Service Singapore Legal Service
Citizenship	Singaporean nationality law
Special powers against subversion and emergency powers	Internal Security Act
Constitution of the Republic of Singapore Tribunal

Chief justices of British dependencies
Overseas territories	Anguilla Bermuda British Antarctic Territory British Indian Ocean Territory Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Falkland Islands Gibraltar Montserrat Pitcairn South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Saint Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha Turks and Caicos Islands
Crown Dependencies	Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey
Former (Africa)	Mauritius British Cameroons Cape Colony Gambia Gold Coast Griqualand West Kenya Lagos Colony Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Northern Rhodesia Nyasaland Southern Rhodesia Natal Nigeria Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone South Africa Southern Africa British Somaliland Tanganyika Uganda Zanzibar
Former (Americas)	Bahamas Barbados Berbice British Guiana British Honduras Dominica Demerara-Essequibo Grenada Jamaica Leeward Islands St Lucia St. Vincent Trinidad and Tobago Tobago Trinidad Newfoundland Canada British Columbia New Brunswick Nova-Scotia Ontario Prince Edward Island Quebec Saint Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla Windward Islands West Indies Federation Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Maryland Massachusetts-Bay New Hampshire New-Jersey New-York North-Carolina Pennsylvania Rhode-island and Providence Plantations South-Carolina Virginia
Former (Asia)	Aden Burma Ceylon Straits Settlements Federated Malay States Hong Kong India Bengal Bombay Madras Sind Iraq Labuan Muscat and Oman Malaya Malayan Union North Borneo Palestine and Transjordan Penang Sarawak Singapore
Former (Australasia)	Australia Central Australia New South Wales North Australia Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria Western Australia Swan River Colony New Zealand Papua New Guinea Tonga
Former (Europe)	Cyprus Heligoland Ionian Islands Isle of Wight Malta Minorca Northern Ireland
Former (Oceania)	Cook Islands Fiji Solomon Islands Western Pacific

Chief Justice of the Republic of Singapore
Incumbent Sundaresh Menon since 6 November 2012
Supreme Court of Singapore
Style	Chief Justice (informal) The Honourable (formal)
Nominator	Prime Minister of Singapore
Appointer	President of Singapore
Term length	Tenure until the age of 65
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Singapore, Article 94
Inaugural holder	Wee Chong Jin
Formation	9 August 1965; 59 years ago (1965-08-09)
Website	www.supremecourt.gov.sg