Prashant Kumar Mishra

Prashant Kumar Mishra (born 29 August 1964) is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. He is former chief justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court and acting chief justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court. He has also served as judge of the Chhattisgarh High Court.^[1][2] He also served as Advocate general of Chhattisgarh from 2007 to 2009.^[3] On 19 May 2023, he was elevated as judge of the Supreme Court of India.^[4][5]

Prashant Kumar Mishra
Judge of the Supreme Court of India
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 May 2023
Nominated by	Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud
Appointed by	Droupadi Murmu
3rd Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court
In office 13 October 2021 – 18 May 2023
Nominated by	N. V. Ramana
Appointed by	Ram Nath Kovind
Preceded by	Arup Kumar Goswami
Succeeded by	Dhiraj Singh Thakur
Judge of the Chhattisgarh High Court
In office 10 December 2009 – 12 October 2021 Acting CJ : 1 June 2021 - 12 October 2021
Nominated by	K. G. Balakrishnan
Appointed by	Pratibha Patil
Advocate General of Chhattisgarh
In office 1 September 2007 – 9 December 2009
Appointed by	E. S. L. Narasimhan
Chief Minister	Raman Singh
Preceded by	Ravish Chandra Agrawal
Succeeded by	Deoraj Singh Surana
Personal details
Born	(1964-08-29) 29 August 1964 (age 60) Raigarh, Chhattisgarh
Alma mater	Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya

Early life

Prasanth Kumar Mishra was born on 29th August 1964 in Raigarh, Chhattisgarh. He took B.Sc. and LLB Degrees from Guru Ghasidas University at Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh.

As advocate

He enrolled as an Advocate on 4 September 1987 and he began his legal practice at the District Court of Raigarh. He then practised at High Court of Madhya Pradesh at Jabalpur and High Court of Chhattisgarh at Bilaspur. He dealt with Civil, Criminal and Writ branches of law. In 2005, he was designated as a Senior Advocate by the High Court of Chhattisgarh.

He had been Chairperson of the Chhattisgarh State Bar Council for two years. He was appointed Member of the Rule Making Committee of Chhattisgarh High Court. He was also an Ex-Officio Member in executive council of the Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur and as well as Chancellor's nominee in executive council of Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur.

He has served as the Additional Advocate General for the State of Chhattisgarh from 26 June 2004. He served in this position for over 3 years until August 2007 and was appointed the Advocate General for the State on 1st September 2007.

As judge

He was elevated as a Judge of Chhattisgarh High Court on 10th December 2009. He was appointed as the Acting Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court in June 2021 and later that year on 11th October, he was appointed the Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court and assumed office 2 days later.^[6]

On 16th May 2023, the Supreme Court Collegium recommended his appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of India. In its recommendation the SC focused on equal representation of different High Courts and factored in the under-representation of Chhattisgarh High Court (Justice Mishra's parent high court) in his recommendation.^[7][8]

The Collegium superseded Justice Pritinker Diwaker who is 3 years senior to Justice Mishra and hails from the Chhattisgarh High Court as well. The Collegium explained that having considered ‘all factors’ it found Justice Mishra ‘worthy of appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court’.