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Bivens returns as Supreme Court chief justice Justices of the Tennessee Supreme Court unanimously elected Justice Jeff Bivins to serve as chief justice of the court this week.
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Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
Like the chief justice of the Supreme Court, the Fed chair represents just one vote but is also a first among equals who carried outsized influence.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
Grace, a career prosecutor with clerkships under New Jersey’s chief justice and a Third Circuit judge, had already risen to lead the office’s criminal division.
—Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 21 Aug. 2025
However, an assistant attorney general under Nixon (and later Supreme Court chief justice), William Rehnquist, had drafted a memo claiming that the bombing was justified by—wait for it—the commander-in-chief clause of the Constitution.
—Chris Lehmann, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
Like the chief justice of the Supreme Court, the Fed chair represents just one vote but is also a first among equals who carried outsized influence.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2025
Grace, a career prosecutor with clerkships under New Jersey’s chief justice and a Third Circuit judge, had already risen to lead the office’s criminal division.
—Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 21 Aug. 2025
However, an assistant attorney general under Nixon (and later Supreme Court chief justice), William Rehnquist, had drafted a memo claiming that the bombing was justified by—wait for it—the commander-in-chief clause of the Constitution.
—Chris Lehmann, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chief justice
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In mid-April, the county circuit judge allegedly told immigration agents to head to the chief judge’s office and then allowed Mexican national Eduardo Flores-Ruiz and his lawyer to use a nonpublic door to aid in escaping arrest, prosecutors said.—
Filip Timotija,
The Hill,
4 Sep. 2025
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Also from Pine Bluff, Humphrey has been a pastor at Allison Memorial Presbyterian Church for 41 years and served as the sixth judicial district circuit judge from 1992 to 2010 and was also an assistant attorney general.—
Daniel McFadin,
Arkansas Online,
2 Sep. 2025
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And King tied Angela Medlin, the woman who had confronted Marty Baker during the cattle-rustling arrests, in the race for justice of the peace.—
Mitch Moxley,
Rolling Stone,
27 Sep. 2025
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During the 2024 general election, Chism, a Democrat, lost to Republican Wilson Hatcher of Alexander for the District 2 Saline County justice of the peace post.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Chief justice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chief%20justice. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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