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)
The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.
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 |
|---|---|
| Spottswood William Robinson III | federal judge |
| William D. Quarles Jr. | United States federal judge |
| Thomas Burnside | — |
|
Judge John Sirica
surface form:
John Sirica
|
United States federal judge |
| Charles G. Garrison | associate justice |
| John E. Jones III | American jurist |
| Howard T. Markey | — |
|
William Howard Taft; Nicholas Murray Butler
surface form:
William Howard Taft
|
Chief Justice of the United States |
|
William Howard Taft; 23.2%
surface form:
William Howard Taft
|
Chief Justice of the United States |
|
Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly & Cox
surface form:
Henry J. Friendly
|
federal judge |
| Johnson T. Crawford | — |
| Nicholas Fitzhugh | — |
| James Dunlop (chief judge) | — |
| George Latimer | Utah Supreme Court justice |
| Richard H. Chambers | American federal judge |
| Peter Johnston | — |
| James Morsell | American jurist |
|
John
surface form:
John Hugh McNary
|
United States federal judge |
| Elbert P. Tuttle | — |
|
United States Magistrate Judges
surface form:
United States Magistrate Judge
|
federal judicial officer |
|
Haleyville, Alabama, United States
surface form:
Frank M. Johnson Jr.
|
federal judge |
| Hugo L. Black | United States Supreme Court justice |
|
Hufstedler
surface form:
Shirley Hufstedler
|
United States federal judge |
| Robert C. Murphy | American jurist |
| David J. Barron | American jurist |
| David Willock Wallace | — |
|
Quinton
surface form:
Walter Q. Gresham
|
American jurist |
| Yaʿqub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari | chief judge |
| Burley Mitchell | American jurist |
| John T. McDonough | — |
| William Gardner Choate | federal judge |
| Anderson Crenshaw | American jurist |
| John J. Sirica | United States federal judge |
| William S. Andrews | — |
| Oliver Ellsworth | Chief Justice of the United States |
| Donald E. Lane | — |
|
John
surface form:
John G. Heyburn II
|
United States federal judge |
| Natalie E. Hudson | — |
| Greg N. Stivers | United States federal judge |
| Emory A. Chase | — |
|
Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite
surface form:
Morrison R. Waite
|
Chief Justice of the United States |
| Charles M. Allen | United States federal judge |
|
Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth
surface form:
Oliver Ellsworth
|
Chief Justice of the United States |
| Patricia McGowan Wald | — |
|
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
surface form:
Charles Evans Hughes
|
Chief Justice of the United States |
| Harold H. Greene | United States federal judge |
|
Nadine Breyer
surface form:
Stephen G. Breyer
|
former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
| Alfred P. Murrah | American federal judge |
| William P. Van Ness | United States federal judge |
| Willis Van Devanter | American jurist |