Chief Justice of the Russian Federation

Chief Justice of the Russian Federation
	Emblem of the Supreme Court
	Incumbent; Vyacheslav Lebedev; since 26 December 1991
	Supreme Court of Russia
Type	Chief justice
Member of	Judiciary of Russia
Seat	Moscow
Appointer	President
Term length	Six years, renewable
Constituting instrument	Constitution of Russia
Formation	1 January 1923; 101 years ago
First holder	Pēteris Stučka
Website	SupCourt.Ru

The Chief Justice of the Russian Federation, officially the Chairman of the Supreme Court (Russian: Председатель Верховного суда Российской Федерации) is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of Russia and the highest-ranking officer of the Russian federal judiciary.^[1]

The Constitution grants plenary power to the president of Russia to nominate, and with the advice and consent of the Russian Federation Council, appoint a chief justice, who serves until they resign, retire, are impeached and convicted, or die.

Current chief justice is Vyacheslav Lebedev.

List

Chiefs Justice of Soviet Russia

Chief Justice^[2]		Took office	Left office
1	Pyotr Stuchka (1865–1932)	January 1923	25 January 1932
2	Ivan Bulat (1896–1938)	January 1932	17 September 1937
3	Yakov Dmitriyev (1892–1975)	22 September 1937	17 October 1937
4	Andrey Solodilov^[3] (1900–1948)	27 October 1937	September 1938
5	Ignaty Rozhnov	September 1938	February 1939
6	Anatoly Rubichev (1903–1973)	28 January 1939	4 May 1945
7	Alexander Nesterov (1905–?)	4 May 1945	16 June 1949
8	Stepan Bityukov (1905–1966)	August 1949	15 March 1957
9	Anatoly Rubichev (1903–1973)	15 March 1957	July 1962
10	Lev Smirnov (1911–1986)	July 1962	September 1972
11	Alexander Kirillovich Orlov (ru) (1923–1999)	September 1972	December 1984
12	Nikolay Malshakov (ru) (1924–1997)	6 December 1984	6 July 1987
13	Yevgeny Smolentsev (ru) (1923–2017)	7 July 1987	7 June 1989
14	Vyacheslav Lebedev (born 1943)	26 July 1989	26 December 1991