Justice Umesh Dattatraya Salvi obtained M.Sc. (Bio-Chemistry) and LL.B. degree from the University of Bombay. Enrolled as an advocate in March 1977. Worked as Additional Government Pleader and Public Prosecutor, District Thane and as Member Secretary, District Legal Aid and Advice Committee, Thane. Appointed as City Civil and Additional Sessions Judge, Mumbai in August 1993. Justice Umesh Dattatraya Salvi was elevated as a judge of the Bombay High Court on February 10, 2009. Appointed as a Judicial Member of the National Green Tribunal with effect from February 14, 2013.