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Supreme Court Justice. one of the nine judges of the US Supreme Court. Each Supreme Court Justice is chosen by the President of the US and must then be accepted by Congress, and they usually have this position for the rest of their lives. The most important judge is called the Chief Justice. Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
All but four presidents have appointed at least one justice to the Court and three presidents - Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt - have appointed justices who collectively have served more than 100 years. The Court currently has six male and three female justices. One justice is African-American, one is Latino, and two are Italian-Americans; six justices are Roman Catholics, and three are Jewish. The average age is 67 years, 7 months, and every current justice has an Ivy League background. Our Supreme Court Justices comparison also incorporates academic data that reflects the ideological leanings of justices since the 1937 term.