Sonia Gokani

Justice Sonia Gokani was born on 26 February 1961 in Jamnagar. Gujarat, India. She studied B. Sc. in Microbiology and later completed LLB and LLM.^[1]

She served as a part-time lecturer at K.P Shah Law College, Jamnagar.^[1] She served as a member of District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum for five years.^[1]

She joined as a judge of the City Civil and Sessions Court of Ahmedabad on 10 July 1995. She served as the judge of the Special Court under the Anti-Terrorism law of Gujarat from 2003 to 2008. She also worked as the judge of Special Court of the Central Bureau of Investigation.^[1]

In 2008, she was appointed the Registrar for the recruitment department of the Gujarat High Court.^[1] She later served as the Registrar of information technology and infrastructure department for one and half years.^[1] She also taught at Gujarat State Judicial Academy.^[1] She was appointed the Additional Judge of the Gujarat High Court on 17 February 2011 and was made Permanent Judge on 28 January 2013.^[1] She was appointed as Acting Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court on 13 February 2023. She was appointed as Chief Justice of Gujarat High Court on 16 February 2023.