Chief Justice

the title of the chief member of the United States Supreme Court, also of the judges holding similar rank in some of the States. In Canada it is the title of the leading judge of the Dominion and Provincial Supreme Courts, and in England the presiding judge in the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court of Justice is ealled a “‘ Lord Chief Justice.’ The following is a list of the persons appointed as Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from its establishment: John Jay, of New York.