Chief Justice of the United States
Chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. federal judiciary.
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John Roberts
John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as the 17th chief justice of the United States since 2005.
Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American statesman, politician and jurist who served as the 11th Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941.
John Jay
American statesman, patriot, diplomat, Founding Father, abolitionist, negotiator, and signatory of the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
He served as the second governor of New York and the first chief justice of the United States.
Harlan F. Stone
Harlan Fiske Stone (October 11, 1872 – April 22, 1946) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1925 to 1941 and then as the 12th chief justice of the United States from 1941 until his death in 1946.
William Rehnquist
William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1, 1924 – September 3, 2005) was an American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States for 33 years, first as an associate justice from 1972 to 1986 and then as the 16th chief justice from 1986 until his death in 2005.
Salmon P. Chase
Salmon Portland Chase (January 13, 1808 – May 7, 1873) was an American politician and jurist who served as the sixth chief justice of the United States.
United States federal judge
In the United States, federal judges are judges who serve on courts established by Article Three of the U.S. Constitution.
Often known as "Article III judges", these judges include the chief justice and associate justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, the circuit judges of the U.S. courts of appeals, the district judges of the U.S. district courts, and the judges of the U.S. Court of International Trade.
Oath of office of the president of the United States
Oath or affirmation that the president of the United States takes upon assuming office.
While the Constitution does not mandate that anyone in particular should administer the presidential oath of office, it has been administered by the chief justice beginning with John Adams, except following the death of a sitting president.
Edward Douglass White
American politician and jurist from Louisiana.
White served on the U.S. Supreme Court for 27 years, first as an associate justice from 1894 to 1910, then as the ninth chief justice from 1910 until his death in 1921.
Article Three of the United States Constitution
Article Three of the United States Constitution establishes the judicial branch of the federal government.
Article Three does not set the size of the Supreme Court or establish specific positions on the court, but Article One establishes the position of chief justice.