American judge
C2825
concept
An American judge is a public official in the United States judiciary who interprets and applies the law, presides over legal proceedings, and issues rulings and judgments in accordance with the U.S. Constitution and relevant statutes.
All labels observed (36)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| American judge canonical | 65 |
| United States federal judge | 53 |
| American jurist | 35 |
| federal judge | 35 |
| Chief Justice of the United States | 25 |
| American federal judge | 9 |
| chief judge | 8 |
| United States Supreme Court justice | 7 |
| county judge | 6 |
| federal judge of the United States | 6 |
| appellate judge | 4 |
| Chief Judge | 3 |
| federal appellate judge | 3 |
| Georgia Supreme Court justice | 2 |
| United States circuit judge | 2 |
| United States court of appeals judge | 2 |
| United States district judge | 2 |
| associate justice | 2 |
| federal judicial officer | 2 |
| former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | 2 |
| judicial officeholder | 2 |
| 19th-century American judge | 1 |
| African American judge | 1 |
| Minnesota Supreme Court justice | 1 |
| New York state judge | 1 |
| United States district court judge | 1 |
| Utah Supreme Court justice | 1 |
| associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | 1 |
| judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit | 1 |
| judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit | 1 |
| judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit | 1 |
| judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit | 1 |
| judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit | 1 |
| judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan | 1 |
| member of the judiciary of Arizona | 1 |
| person from the early 20th century United States judiciary | 1 |
Description generation (CDg)
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Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: American judge
Generated description
An American judge is a public official in the United States judiciary who interprets and applies the law, presides over legal proceedings, and issues rulings and judgments in accordance with the U.S. Constitution and relevant statutes.
Instances (254)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| John G. Roberts Jr. | Chief Justice of the United States |
| Earl Warren | Chief Justice of the United States |
|
Judge Laurence Silberman
surface form:
Laurence Silberman
|
United States federal judge |
|
President William Howard Taft
surface form:
William Howard Taft
|
Chief Justice of the United States |
| Smith Thompson | — |
| Steven McAuliffe | American federal judge |
| Robert P. Patterson | United States federal judge |
| Recorder of London | chief judge |
|
Judge Carolyn B. McHugh
surface form:
Carolyn B. McHugh
|
federal appellate judge |
|
Judge Jerome A. Holmes
surface form:
Jerome A. Holmes
|
federal judge |
| Victor C. Swearingen | — |
|
Judge Mary Beck Briscoe
surface form:
Mary Beck Briscoe
|
— |
| Edward Douglass White | Chief Justice of the United States |
| Warren E. Burger | Chief Justice of the United States |
| Charles E. Clark | — |
| Alan Page | Minnesota Supreme Court justice |
| William H. Rehnquist | Chief Justice of the United States |
|
Billings
surface form:
Henry Billings Brown
|
American jurist |
| Henry Howard Swan | — |
| Lord Justice of Appeal | appellate judge |
| Elias Glenn | United States federal judge |
|
Smith Thompson (as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
surface form:
Smith Thompson
|
— |
|
Asheville, North Carolina’s namesake Samuel Ashe
surface form:
Samuel Ashe
|
American jurist |
| Rensselaer Russell Nelson | — |
| John G. Knox | — |
| John Boyle | — |
| Aleta A. Trauger | United States federal judge |
| Armistead Burwell | 19th-century American judge |
| Deborah L. Cook | federal judge |
| Hall Hammond | American jurist |
| William Matthew Byrne Jr. | United States federal judge |
| David Sills | American jurist |
| United States Commissioner | federal judicial officer |
| Stephen Trott | federal judge |
| Malcolm Richard Wilkey | federal judge |
| Bernard A. Friedman | United States federal judge |
| E. Barrett Prettyman | — |
|
Woodard
surface form:
Pamela Woodard
|
— |
| Herschel W. Arant | — |
| Jeffrey S. Sutton | American jurist |
|
Justice Stone
surface form:
Harlan Fiske Stone
|
Chief Justice of the United States |
| John Hessin Clarke | associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
| Lowell Jensen | federal judge |
| Learned Hand | American federal judge |
| Robert Heberton Terrell | African American judge |
| Denton County Judge | county judge |
|
Judge Charles D. Rosa
surface form:
Charles D. Rosa
|
American jurist |
| Leonard I. Garth | United States federal judge |
| William Cranch | American jurist |
| Judith Ann Wilson Rogers | — |