Roll of Chairmen / Presidents*

Chairmen of the Bar Council (1947–1978)


E D Shearn 1947–1948	W G W Hastings 1948–1949	E D Shearn 1949–1951


W G W Hastings 1951–1952	Yong Shook Lin 1952–1954	T Rajendra 1954–1957


R Ramani 1957–1960	Morris Edgar 1960–1961	R Ramani 1961–1964


S M Yong 1964–1965	R R Chelliah 1965–1973	Chan Hua Eng 1973–1974


V C George 1974 –1976	Raja Aziz Addruse 1976–1978

Presidents of the Malaysian Bar (1978–Present)


Abdullah A Rahman 1978–1980	G T S Sidhu 1980–1982	S Sivasubramanian 1982–1984


Ronald Khoo 1984–1986	Param Cumaraswamy 1986–1988	Raja Aziz Addruse 1988–1989


S Theivanthiran 1989–1991	Manjeet Singh Dhillon 1991–1992	Raja Aziz Addruse 1992–1993


Zainur Zakaria 1993–1995	Hendon Hj Mohamed 1995–1997	Cyrus V Das 1997–1999


R R Chelvarajah 1999–2000	Hj Sulaiman Abdullah 2000–2001	Mah Weng Kwai 2001–2003


Kuthubul Zaman Bukhari 2003–2005	Yeo Yang Poh 2005–2007	Ambiga Sreenevasan 2007–2009


Ragunath Kesavan 2009–2011	Lim Chee Wee 2011–2013	Christopher Leong 2013–2015


Steven Thiru 2012–2017	George Varughese 2017–2019	Abdul Fareed Abdul Gafoor 2019–2020


Salim Bashir 2020–2021	A G Kalidas 2021–2022	Karen Cheah Yee Lynn 2022–2024


Mohamad Ezri B Abdul Wahab 2024–2026

*Under the Advocates and Solicitors’ Ordinance 1947, the Bar Council would elect a Chairman. The term “President of the Malaysian Bar” came into effect when the Legal Profession Act 1976 (“LPA”) came into force in 1977, and replaced the 1947 Ordinance.

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