Kalmanje Jagannatha Shetty

Kalmanje Jagannatha Shetty (15 December 1926 – 7 April 2015) was a former judge of Supreme Court of India and retired Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court who also served as acting chief justice of the Karnataka High Court. He was also the first Chairman of the National Pay Commission.

Bio

Born in a family of Ambalpadi-Udupi, in Karnataka, India, Shetty graduated from the St. Aloysius College (Mangalore) in 1951 and later studied law at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India. He also obtained a master's degree in law while practicing as an advocate in the period between 1954 and 1956. He had an extensive practice in all branches of law and in particular, Civil, Service and Constitutional matters.