Meet Justice D Y Chandrachud, sworn in as the 50th Chief Justice of India

Justice D Y Chandrachud took over as the 50th Chief Justice of India Wednesday. In picture, President Droupadi Murmu administers the oath of office to the CJI. (PTI Photo)

An alumnus of Delhi University's St. Stephen’s College and Faculty of Law, and later Harvard University, where he did his LL.M in 1983, followed by a doctorate in juridical sciences in 1986, Chandrachud practised as an advocate in the Bombay High Court and Supreme Court.(Express Photo)

The CJI also served as Additional Solicitor General of India from 1998 to 2000. (Express Photo)

Justice Chandrachud grew up in Bombay and at the age of 12, he moved to Delhi to join his father when the latter was appointed the 13th judge of the Supreme Court. In Pic: D Y Chandrachud with his wife Kalpana Das and their foster children Mahi (left) and Priyanka at their residence in New Delhi on Tuesday.  (Express Photo)

CJI Chandrachud grew up surrounded by music — while his father, the late former CJI Y V Chandrachud, is a trained classical musician, his mother sang for All India Radio. (Express Photo)

“My mission is to make our system more simple, more transparent, more efficient so that the interface of common citizens with the judiciary becomes easy, simple and transparent…,” Justice Chandrachud said in an interview with Indian Express. (Express Photo)

On his priorities for the judiciary, CJI Chandrachud said the first on the list is filling vacancies, from the district judiciary to High Courts to the Supreme Court. (Express Photo)

Awaiting the court’s attention are a plethora of constitutional issues — from the question of freebies by political parties to the challenge to the Places of Worship Act, 1991, from WhatsApp’s privacy policy to reviews in the Sabarimala and hijab cases. (Express Photo)

"We need to bring in more diversity in judiciary. The face of the judiciary which we see today is the product of the state of the legal profession three or four decades ago," the CJI said in an interview with Indian Express. (Express Photo)