| # | Name | Took Office | Left Office |
| 1 | Sh. S. Chakravarti | 25 January 1971 | 16 February 1977 |
| 2 | Sh. Amin ud-din Ahmad Khan | 17 February 1977 | 25 August 1981 |
| 3 | Sh. A. K. Banerjee | 26 August 1981 | 15 April 1983 |
| 4 | Sh. Hokishe Sema | 16 April 1983 | 7 March 1986 |
| - | Justice Prabodh Dinkarrao Desai | 8 March 1986 | 16 April 1986 |
| 5 | Vice Admiral R. K. S. Ghandhi | 17 April 1986 | 15 February 1990 |
| - | Sh. S. M. H. Burney | 2 December 1987 | 10 January 1988 |
| - | Sh. H. A. Brari | 20 December 1989 | 12 January 1990 |
| 6 | Sh. B. Rachaiah | 16 February 1990 | 19 December 1990 |
| 7 | Sh. Virendra Verma | 20 December 1990 | 29 January 1993 |
| - | Sh. Surendra Nath | 30 January 1993 | 10 December 1993 |
| 8 | Sh. Bali Ram Bhagat | 11 February 1993 | 29 June 1993 |
| 9 | Sh. Gulsher Ahmad | 30 June 1993 | 26 November 1993 |
| - | Sh. Surendra Nath | 27 November 1993 | 9 July 1994 |
| - | Justice Viswanathan Ratnam | 10 July 1994 | 30 July 1994 |
| 10 | Sh. Sudhakarrao Naik | 30 July 1994 | 17 September 1995 |
| - | Sh. Mahabir Prasad | 18 September 1995 | 16 November 1995 |
| 11 | Smt. Sheila Kaul | 17 November 1995 | 22 April 1996 |
| - | Sh. Mahabir Prasad | 23 April 1996 | 25 July 1997 |
| 12 | Smt. V. S. Ramadevi | 26 July 1997 | 1 December 1999 |
| 13 | Sh. Vishnu Kant Shastri | 2 December 1999 | 23 November 2000 |
| 14 | Sh. Suraj Bhan | 23 November 2000 | 7 May 2003 |
| 15 | Justice Vishnu Sadashiv Kokje | 8 May 2003 | 19 July 2008 |
| 16 | Prabha Rau | 19 July 2008 | 24 January 2010 |
| 17 | Urmila Singh | 25 January 2010 | 24 January 2015 |
| - | Kalyan Singh | 28 January 2015 | 12 August 2015 |
| 18 | Acharya Devvrat | 12 August 2015 | 21 July 2019 |
| 19 | Kalraj Mishra | 22 July 2019 | 10 September 2019 |
| 20 | Bandaru Dattatreya | 11 September 2019 | Incumbent |
