The judicial arm of the Nigerian government consists of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the Court of Appeals, the High Courts, and other trial courts such as the Magistrates‘, Customary, Sharia and other specialisedcourts.^[1] The Chief Justice of Nigeria, abbreviated as CJN preside over the Supreme Court and thirteen associate justices, who are appointed by the president on the recommendation of the National Judicial Councilsubject to the approval of the National Assembly.^[2][2]

The table below outline the List of Chief Justice of Nigeria from 1958 till date.

Chief Justice	Term
Sir Edwin Speed	1914–1918
Sir Ralph Combe	1918–1929
Donald Kingdon	1929–1946
Sir John Verity	1946–1954
Sir Stafford Sutton	1955–1958
Sir Adetokunbo Ademola	1958–1972
Taslim Olawale Elias	1972–1975
Darnley Arthur Alexander	1975–1979
Atanda Fatai Williams	1979–1983
George Sodeinde Sowemimo	1983–1985
Ayo Gabriel Irikefe	1985–1987
Mohammed Bello	1987–1995
Muhammad Lawal Uwais	1995–2006
Salihu Moddibo Alfa Belgore	2006–2007
Idris Legbo Kutigi	2007–2009
Aloysius Iyorgyer Katsina-Alu	2009–2011
Dahiru Mustapher	2011–2012
Aloma Mariam Mukhtar[2][3]	2012–2014
Mahmud Mohammed	2014–2016
Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen	2017–2019
Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad	2019