NEW DELHI: Justice Cyriac Joseph, the retired Supreme Court judge, has been appointed as the new chairperson of the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal.

Justice Joseph, who retired on 27 January this year, has been appointed on a term of three years. He succeeds Justice S B Sinha who retired last month.

He was appointed a judge of the apex court on 7 July 2008. He became Chief Justice in Karnataka High Court in January 2006.

Born on 28 January 1947 at Kaipuzha, Kottayam District in Kerala, he graduated in science and then went on to do law. He enrolled as an advocate in October 1968.

He was senior government pleader in the Kerala High Court from 1979 to 1987 and then served as Additional Advocate General, Kerala, from July 1991 to July 1994.

Appointed as a permanent Judge of the High Court in July 1994, he was transferred a month later to Delhi High Court and then back to Kerala in September 2001. He was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Uttaranchal (now Uttarakhand) in March 2005.