<Tr> <Th> Relatives </Th> <Td> Ranganath Mishra (uncle) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Alma mater </Th> <Td> M.S. law College, Cuttack </Td> </Tr> <P> Justice Dipak Misra (born 3 October 1953) is the Chief Justice of India . He is the 45th Chief Justice of India (CJI), succeeding the 44th CJI, Justice J.S. Khehar . He is a judge of the Supreme Court of India and a former Chief Justice of the Patna and Delhi High Courts . He is the nephew of Justice Ranganath Mishra, who was the 21st CJI during 1990 - 91 . He hails from the State of Odisha . </P> <P> Justice Mishra enrolled at the Bar on 14 February 1977 and practised at the Orissa High Court and the Service Tribunal . He was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Orissa High Court in 1996 and was later transferred the following year to the Madhya Pradesh High Court, where he was made a Permanent Judge on 19 December 1997 . In December 2009, he was appointed Chief Justice of the Patna High Court and served until May 2010, when he was appointed Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court . He served in the latter capacity until his elevation to the Supreme Court on 10 October 2011 . </P>

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