âº a âcomplaint or a âstrong âfeeling that you have been âtreated unfairly: A âspecial âcommittee âinvestigates âprisonersâ grievances. (Definition of grievance from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Â© Cambridge University Press). See all translations.
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.
The Judiciary Act of 1789 created the distinctive titles of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1866, at the urging of Salmon P. Chase, Congress restyled the chief justice's title to the current Chief Justice of the United States. The first person whose Supreme Court commission contained the modified title was Melville Fuller in 1888.