what is a judge in the supreme court called?
Chief Justice of the United States
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 Judicial : The Supreme Court and lower federal courts , whose judges are appointed by the President with Senate approval , interpret laws and overturn those they find unconstitutional . 

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 Although the Constitution imposes no educational background requirements for federal judges , the work of the Court involves complex questions of law — ranging from constitutional law to administrative law to admiralty law — and consequently , a legal education has become a de facto prerequisite to appointment on the Supreme Court . Every person who has been nominated to the Court has been an attorney . 

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 Supreme Court , General Term 

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 For most of the existence of the Court , geographic diversity was a key concern of presidents in choosing justices to appoint . This was prompted in part by the early practice of Supreme Court justices also " riding circuit " — individually hearing cases in different regions of the country . In 1789 , the United States was divided into judicial circuits , and from that time until 1891 , Supreme Court justices also acted as judges within those individual circuits . George Washington was careful to make appointments " with no two justices serving at the same time hailing from the same state " . Abraham Lincoln broke with this tradition during the Civil War , and " by the late 1880s presidents disregarded it with increasing frequency " . 

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 Among themselves , the judges in each category rank according to the priority of their appointments to the Bench . 
