Albert Pike has often been named as influential in the early Ku Klux Klan, being named in 1905 as " the chief judicial officer " of the Klan by a sympathetic historian of the early Klan, Walter Fleming.

The other was the Praetor Urbanus, the chief judicial office in Rome.

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 the highest judicial officer in the country, and acts as a chief administrative officer for the federal courts and appoints the director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.

Galveston's city council serves as the city's legislative branch, while the city manager works as the chief executive officer and the municipal court system serves as the city's judicial branch.

* The Athenian people elect Themistocles as archon, the chief judicial and civilian executive officer in Athens.

A decade before, the Bishop of Speyer had taken the step of providing the Jews of that city with a guarded quarter to protect them from Christian violence and given their chief Rabbis the control of judicial matters in the quarter.

Graduates of the university's colonial predecessor, King's College, included such notable early American judicial figures as John Jay, who would later become the first chief justice of the United States Supreme Court.

MOYIG consists of legislative, judicial, and executive branches, and students are able to hold offices such as speaker of the House, committee chair, governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and chief justice or justice of the Supreme Court.

The judicial branch consists of a chief justice, associate justices, and many attorneys.

The Syrian Arab News Agency's official explanation was that he committed suicide after learning that a Syrian police chief had arrived at his house to serve a judicial notice requiring him to appear before an investigating judge to answer allegations of corruption in relation to the Airbus transaction.

On February 17, 1834, Harris was ordained a member of Kirtland High Council, which was then the chief judicial and legislative council of the church.

* Canada is divided into two chief judicial districts ( Quebec and Montreal ).

Other changes came in 1981 when the Oregon Legislature and justice Arno Denecke reformed the chief justice position from a simple head of the court in title only, to the administrative head of the entire Oregon judicial system.

Yang Rong, the former chief executive of Brilliance China Automotive who fled to the United States after getting embroiled in a dispute against state property authorities, accused Bo of interfering in his judicial proceedings in Beijing.

Like the alcaldes before them, county judges under the Texas Constitution wield both judicial and chief executive functions.

Although in larger counties today the county judge usually functions solely as county chief executive, in smaller counties, the role of the county judge continues to have many of the combined judicial and administrative functions of the alcalde.

There also were a megas kapetanios ( in Greek ), commander in chief of the troops, a treasurer, a chancellor and a judicial administration.

A county attorney in many areas of the United States is the chief legal officer for a county or local judicial district.

The office's responsibilities had previously not only been those of the chief administrator of the court system but also of presiding officer of the House of Lords ( succeeded in that capacity by the Lord Speaker ) and of a judge or judge-like position on several judicial bodies.

For example, the three chief officials of a province () controlled the legislative and executive, the judicial, and the military affairs of the province or region.

The Alþingi was Iceland's legislative and chief judicial authority for the duration of the Commonwealth, until 1271.

All efforts to resolve the judicial crisis failed as both the judges ' groups stuck to their stance and issued separate cause lists. The dissident judges, who did not acknowledge Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah as chief justice, issued a fresh cause list for 15 members ' full court session.

Hispania Baetica was divided into four conventūs, which were territorial divisions like judicial circuits, where the chief men met together at major centers, at fixed times of year, under the eye of the proconsul, to oversee the administration of justice: the conventus Gaditanus ( of Gades, or Cádiz ), Cordubensis ( of Cordoba ), Astigitanus ( of Astigi, or Écija ), and Hispalensis ( of Hispalis, or Seville ).

He was Kimble County Attorney from 1914 – 1918 and Kimble county judge, the chief county administrator with some judicial duties, from 1919-1921.

Thus the chief magistrate of the republic at Genoa was called.

The chief magistrate of the Aedui in Caesar's time was called Vergobretus ( according to Mommsen, " judgment-worker "), who was elected annually, possessed powers of life and death, but was forbidden to go beyond the frontier.

The short-lived Bolognese Republic, proclaimed in 1796 as a French client republic in the Central Italian city of Bologna, had a government consisting of nine consuls and its head of state was the Presidente del Magistrato, i. e., chief magistrate, a presiding office held for four months by one of the consuls.

It ... afforded scope for picturesque treatment, scenery and costume, and I think that the idea of a chief magistrate, who is ... judge and actual executioner in one, and yet would not hurt a worm, may perhaps please the public.

His father, Ulrich, played a leading role in the administration of the community ( Amtmann or chief local magistrate ).

Asked to explain herself she insisted on first summoning witnesses and after disclosing the rape called on him and them for vengeance, a plea that could not be ignored, as she was speaking to the chief magistrate of Rome.

Pelopidas is elected boeotarch, or chief magistrate, of the city.

However, the chief magistrate of Adrianople refuses and the Goths break out in open rebellion.

Thomas Jefferson wrote in his 1774 A Summary View of the Rights of British America that " a free people their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

The Public Council, composed of forty-eight councillors chosen by the people, four members of the clergy and four doctors of the university, met under the presidency of the chief magistrate of the city, the viquier ( Occitan ) or vicar or representative of the papal Legate or Vice-legate, who annually nominated a man for the post.

Three of the archons have special functions: the basileus, or sovereign ; the polemarch ( originally a military commander ); and the archon eponymous ( chief magistrate ), who gave his name to the year.

* Following the conclusion of the peace with Rome, Hannibal is elected as suffet, or chief magistrate, of Carthage.

The Doge of Venice (; Venetian: Doxe ; ; both derived from Latin dux, " military leader "), often mistranslated as Duke ( the Italian word for duke is " Duca "), was the chief magistrate and leader of the Most Serene Republic of Venice for over a thousand years.

He was also the chief magistrate for the administration of justice and promulgated the Praetor's Edict.

A Duovir was a chief magistrate of a Roman colony or town, most probably involving with trade and was also a Patronus Colonaie.

He was married to the daughter of Pacuvius Calavius, chief magistrate of Capua in 217 BC.

The chief magistrate of London bore the title of portreeve for considerably more than a century after the Norman Conquest.

In Germany and the Netherlands ( see below ) the chief town magistrate is respectively called " Bürgermeister / burgemeester ", sometimes translated into English as Burgomaster, meaning ' Chief ( or Master ) of the Burgesses / citizens '.

From around 1570, Sir Thomas Maclellan of Bombie, the chief magistrate, received a charter for the site, its grounds, and gardens.

If the Senate proposed a bill that the plebeian tribune ( the magistrate who was the chief representative of the people ) did not agree with, he issued a veto, which was backed by the promise to literally "' interpose the sacrosanctity of his person '" ( or intercessio ) if the Senate did not comply.

Nichols was born in Robbins, Illinois, near Chicago, to Samuel Earl Nichols, a factory worker who was both the town mayor of Robbins and its chief magistrate, and his wife Lishia ( Parks ) Nichols .< ref >

He was also the chief magistrate and military commander of Transylvania's counties, and this power inevitably drew the Székely and Saxon territories into his sphere of influence however these territories were governed by counts who were nominally independent of the voivode.

The chief magistrate ( alcalde mayor ) of the city was Alvar Gomez de Cibdad Real, who had been private secretary to King Henry IV of Castile.

He was made chief magistrate by Theodore II.

In ancient Greece the chief magistrate in various Greek city states was called Archon.