- Justice Ritu Bahri took the oath of office as the first female Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court.
- Governor of Uttarakhand Lieutenant General Gurmeet Singh (Retd) delivered the oath of office.
- Justice Ritu Bahri is the first female Chief Justice in the Uttarakhand High Court’s history.
- She was a senior judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court before.
- Uttarakhand High Court was established on 9 November 2000.
- Justice Ashok Desai served as the first chief justice of the Uttarakhand High Court between 2000 and 2003.
