What Is a Chief Justice?
Chief justice has two main meanings. Regarding courts in which there are multiple judges, the title is reserved for the judge who presides over the rest. In addition, a chief justice may head the judicial branch of a country’s government. There are a number of countries that have a chief justice in their judicial system. Among these are Australia, Canada, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and the United States. Additionally, countries may have chief justices at the state or provincial level, as they are in some of the United States — some have a chief judge, instead — and some Canadian provinces and territories.
