It consists of a Chief Justice and an Associate Justice, appointed by the United States Secretary of the Interior.

Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are the members of the Supreme Court of the United States other than the Chief Justice of the United States.

Associate Justices, like the Chief Justice, are nominated by the President of the United States and are confirmed by the United States Senate by majority vote.

The Chief Justice has certain administrative responsibilities that the other Justices do not and is paid slightly more ($ 223, 500 per year for the Chief Justice and $ 213, 900 per year for each Associate Justice ).

Associate Justices have seniority by order of appointment, although the Chief Justice is always considered to be the most senior.

Currently, the senior Associate Justice is Antonin Scalia.

Under 28 USC 3, when the Chief Justice is unable to discharge his functions, or that office is vacant, his duties are carried out by the most senior Associate Justice until the disability or the vacancy ends.

However, retired Associate Justices ( unlike judges on senior status ) take no part in the consideration or decision of any cases before the Supreme Court, although they may be appointed by the Chief Justice to sit on lower courts.

Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

File: Ruth Bader Ginsburg official SCOTUS portrait. jpg | Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Columbia Law School

Group litigation survived in the United States only thanks to the influence of Supreme Court Associate Justice Joseph Story, who imported it in a rather mangled form into U. S. law through summary discussions in his two equity treatises as well as his famous opinion in West v. Randall ( 1820 ).

He served as the 36th Governor of New York ( 1907 – 1910 ), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ( 1910 – 1916 ), United States Secretary of State ( 1921 – 1925 ), a judge on the Court of International Justice ( 1928 – 1930 ), and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States ( 1930 – 1941 ).

In October 1910, Hughes was appointed as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

* 1752 – Gabriel Duvall, American jurist, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ( d. 1844 )

* Louis Brandeis, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

* 1892 – Robert H. Jackson, American jurist, 57th United States Attorney General and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court ( d. 1954 )

On May 3, Nixon appointed L. Patrick Gray, a Justice Department official with no FBI experience, as Acting Director, with W. Mark Felt remaining as Associate Director.

They arrived in New Orleans on the 16th, and he was taken to the home of Charles Erasmus Fenner, an Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.

* 1841 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ( d. 1935 )

In addition to a vast catalog of recordings created with the ensemble's music directors, the orchestra has made many recordings with guest conductors Vladimir Ashkenazy, Oliver Knussen, Kurt Sanderling, Yoel Levi, Riccardo Chailly, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Louis Lane ( the orchestra's longtime Associate Conductor ).

He was then named Associate Minister of National Defence in the cabinet of Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent.

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson nominated Louis Brandeis, a private attorney renowned as a liberal opponent of monopolies and proponent of social reform legislation, to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

The specific term " Necessary and Proper Clause " was coined in 1926 by Associate Justice Louis Brandeis, writing for the majority in the Supreme Court decision in Lambert v. Yellowley, 272 U. S. 581 ( 1926 ), wherein the court upheld a law restricting medicinal use of alcohol as a necessary and proper exercise of power under the 18th Amendment establishing Prohibition in the United States.

In 1890 he had sent a specimen that he collected to the Smithsonian and had received comments on its rarity and in 1891, when Louis was 17 years old he became an Associate Member of the American Ornithologists ' Union.

* Louis Brandeis, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

He currently serves as Louis and Elsie Snydacker Eckstein Professor of Music and Associate Dean of the School of Music.

He then moved to Washington D. C. to become law clerk to U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Louis Brandeis before joining the prestigious Washington law firm Covington and Burling.

In 1919 he accepted a faculty appointment in the Department of Biochemistry at Washington University in St. Louis where he rose in rank to Associate Professor.

Previously the Associate Concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra )

Before joining First Tennessee, Bies was Associate Professor of Economics, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee ( 1977-79 ); Assistant Professor of Economics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan ( 1972-77 ); and Chief Regional and Banking Structure Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ( 1970-72 ).

Louis was chosen as Associate Director to Nikolais and together they created the Nikolais / Louis dance technique, which would become a major influence to dance and still exist to this day.

After serving several important churches in St. Louis and other places, south, he became Editor of the St. Louis Christian Advocate for eight years and, later, Associate Editor of The Nashville Christian Advocate for four years.

* Associate Professor of Economics, Brandeis University, September 1969 – June 1970

The Court, in an opinion by Associate Justice Brandeis, examined the manipulations and opportunistic practices of litigants that had resulted from the rule of Swift v. Tyson and determined that " in attempting to promote uniformity of law throughout the United States, the doctrine had prevented uniformity in the administration of the law of the state.

In 1949 – 50 he was an AEC postdoctoral Fellow at M. I. T., and served as a Visiting Associate Professor of Physics at Brandeis University, 1952 – 53.

In a review of Jerzy Kosiński: A Biography by James Park Sloan, D. G. Myers, Associate Professor of English at Texas A & M University wrote " For years Kosinski passed off The Painted Bird as the true story of his own experience during the Holocaust.

In a debate with Project Censored's Associate Director Mark Lowenthal, Jack Shafer wrote that Project Censored had " an overbearing left-wing bias -- a fact belied by its refusal to review stories from the right-wing or conservative press, the openly partisan nature of the stories that are selected and the leftist panel of judges who help select them.

The Commentaries had a particular influence in the United States ; James Iredell, an original Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States wrote that the Commentaries were " Books admirably calculated for a young Student, and indeed may instruct the most learned.

In 1986, Peter L. Jakab, National Air and Space Museum ( NASM ) Associate Director and Curator of Early Flight, wrote that the image " may very well have been an in-flight photograph " of one of Whitehead's gliders.

Associate Justice Miller wrote for the Court with Associate Justices Field, Harlan, Woods, Matthews, and Blatchford concurring ; Associate Justices Bradley and Gray, along with Chief Justice Waite, dissented.

He wrote: " the name of Associate in Arts has been degraded, probably beyond recovery, by wicked, thievish, and otherwise disreputable institutions.

Associate Justice James Clark McReynolds wrote the opinion of the Court.

Gunnison ’ s letters to his wife throughout the expedition left her with the impression that “ the Mormons were the directors of my husband ’ s murder .” She wrote to Associate Justice W. W. Drummond, the 1855 federal appointee to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah.

Ricketts also wrote on art, was a collector, and was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1922 and a full member in 1928.

In a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of California which severely limited the availability of bystander NIED, Associate Justice David Eagleson wrote in Thing v. La Chusa, 48 Cal.

Associate Justice Hugo Black wrote a separate concurring opinion.

Gerard Alessandrini wrote the " new " parody lyrics, while Phillip George ( Associate director & choreographer ) helped out writing many of the sketches.

Associate Justice Robert Jackson wrote a twenty-four page dissent in response to the Court's four page decision, which concluded: " The choice is not between order and liberty.

Associate Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the opinion for the Court, which commanded a majority only in part.

Writing for the majority, Associate Justice Abe Fortas wrote, " Under our Constitution, the condition of being a boy does not justify a kangaroo court.

In one of the last " All U Weekends ", Kelley James, then Associate Director of the UCLA Marching Band and alumnus of the Cal Band wrote an arrangement of " Big C " for a halftime show performed by the combined marching bands from UCLA, UC Davis, and Cal.