Sundaresh Menon

The Honourable Sundaresh Menon
Sundaresh Menon at an event in the Arts House at the Old Parliament in July 2016
4th Chief Justice of Singapore
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 November 2012
Prime Minister	Lee Hsien Loong
Preceded by	Chan Sek Keong
Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Singapore
In office 1 August 2012 – 5 November 2012
Attorney-General of Singapore
In office 1 October 2010 – 25 June 2012
Preceded by	Walter Woon, Koh Juat Jong (acting)
Succeeded by	Steven Chong
Judicial Commissioner
In office 3 April 2006 – 2 April 2007
Personal details
Born	1962 (age 54–55) Singapore
Nationality	Singaporean
Residence	Singapore
Alma mater	National University of Singapore Harvard University
Religion	Roman Catholic

Sundaresh Menon, S.C. (born 1962), is the Chief Justice of Singapore and a former Attorney-General.

Menon graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) with first class honours from the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore in 1986, and obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School in 1991.

Menon served a one-year term as a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore from April 2006 to March 2007. Returning to legal practice after this, he was appointed a Senior Counsel on 5 January 2008, and became the managing partner of the law firm Rajah & Tann in August 2009.

Menon assumed the position of Attorney-General between 1 October 2010 and 25 June 2012. He has also served as the Deputy Chairman of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre, a member of the Senate of the Singapore Academy of Law, and Chairman of the Advisory Board for the School of Law of Singapore Management University.

Menon was appointed a Judge of Appeal of the Court of Appeal with effect from 1 August 2012. On 6 November 2012, he took office as Singapore's fourth Chief Justice. He is the first non-Chinese Chief Justice of the Republic of Singapore and also the first Singaporean-born Chief Justice.