Justice A. V. Chandrashekar, aged 66 years, is a B.Com, LLB graduate who is a Former Judge, High Court of Karnataka and former Judicial Member, Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal. He commenced his career as a practicing advocate in the year 1984 and during the early part of his judicial career he worked as the Additional District & Sessions Judge and Principal District & Sessions Judge in several districts of Karnataka state. He also worked as the Member Secretary, Karnataka State Legal Services Authority (K.S.L.S.A), Director, Karnataka Judicial Academy (K.J.A) and Director, Bangalore Mediation Centre (B.M.C).

In the year 2013, he was appointed as a Judge of the Hon’ble High Court of Karnataka and superannuated in the year 2016 after serving in the said capacity for three years. After superannuation, he conducted arbitration proceedings in various cases, including private arbitrations and arbitration cases referred by the Hon’ble High Court of Karnataka. Subsequently, he was appointed as a Judicial Member, Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal (K.S.A.T) from 2017 to 2019. He was also the Chairman of the committee constituted by the Karnataka State Child Protection Commission to prepare the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for effective implementation of Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 and the Rules thereunder.

He has also significantly contributed to the academic and training requirement of judicial trainees and while functioning in the capacity of Director, Karnataka Judicial Academy, he coordinated in formulating a training manual for the training of newly recruited civil judges and was also involved in the drafting of the rules governing the Karnataka Arbitration Centre, an initiative of the Hon’ble High Court of Karnataka.

He has also published various articles on topics in substantive and procedural laws for the benefit of judges in the district judiciary, including role of judges in upholding the rule of law (published in the Karnataka State Law University journal in the year 2014) and the fundamental duties.

Justice A V Chandrashekar is a Director on the Board of the Bank since 19 August 2020.