Chandigarh, Oct. 28 -- The chief justice of India designate, justice Surya Kant, is a man of many firsts. Justice Kant, who rose from being the first lawyer in his family to become the youngest advocate general of Haryana, is now poised to be the first Haryanavi to become the CJI in November 2025.

Justice Kant was born on February 10, 1962, in Petwar village, located in the Narnaund area of Hisar, Haryana. His father was a Sanskrit teacher and mother a homemaker. He is the youngest among four brothers and a sister. His educational journey began in a village school where he studied up to matriculation and later did his LLB from MDU, Rohtak, in 1984.

"He wanted to be a lawyer from the beginning," recalled his elder brother, Ravi Kant, who...