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Chief Justice of the United States
The
Chief Justice of the United States
is the head of the
United States federal court system
(the
judicial branch
of the
federal government of the United States
) and the
chief judge
of the
Supreme Court of the United States
. The Chief Justice is one of nine Supreme Court justices; the other eight are the
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States
. From 1789 until 1866, the office was known as the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
.
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