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For any other court, this supervisor is the chief judge of the court.

Retired justices can be assigned to any court (except the Supreme Court) that the justice is willing to accept. Theoretically, a retired justice could also be assigned to act as circuit justice for a circuit, but this has never occurred.

History

In 1919, Congress created the senior status option for inferior court judges. Before that, a judge who reached the age of seventy with at least ten years

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