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Sir Abdul Rashid Chief Justice
John Adams, second President of the United States, was the first to be sworn in by a Chief Justice. Adams took his oath of office from the third Chief Justice, Oliver Ellsworth, on March 4, 1796.
He took the oath of office on March 14, 1861 for the first time administered by then Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert B. Taney who was Chief Justice from March 28, 1836 till October 12, 1864.
He appointed a chief justice the night before Jefferson took the oath of office.
He was sworn in by the Chief Justice William Howard Taft at his only formal inauguration. His father administered the oath the first time he took it.
Senior Associate Justice John Paul Stevens administered the Constitutional Oath of Office to Chief Justice Roberts on September 29, 2005. Roberts took the Judicial Oath on October 3, 2005, immediately prior to hearing his first oral arguments.Although US Supreme Court justices take two Oaths before they can hear cases, they do not have to take both on the same day. Roberts officially became Chief Justice following his recitation of the Constitutional Oath of Office on September 29.
Usually the Chief Justice, but any person with the legal power to administer oaths may do so. Calvin Coolidge, visiting his parents in Vermont when President Harding died, was sworn in by his father, a local Justice of the Peace. Only seven other times in US history has the oath of office been administered by someone besides the Chief Justice of the US.
The Chief Justice of the United States in 2016 was John G. Roberts Jr. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by President George W. Bush and took his oath of office on September 29, 2005. Roberts has played a significant role in many important Supreme Court decisions during his tenure.
The oath of office is administered by the chief justice, usually at the inauguration ceremony in Washington DC.
President George Washington appointed James Wilson and five other justices to the newly established Supreme Court of the United States in September 1789. Although Chief Justice John Jay was first nominated and the first confirmed by the Senate, Associate Justice James Wilson took his Oath of Office first. Wilson remained on the Court until his death in 1798.
Calvin Coolidge was at his father's home in Vermont when word came in the middle of the night (Aug. 2 - Aug. 3, 1923) that President Harding had died. His father, John C. Coolidge, Sr., a Notary Public, administered the Oath to him at that time. After he returned to Washington, he took the Oath again, administered by Judge Adolph A. Hoehling, Jr. at the Willard Hotel in Washington on Aug. 21, 1923. On Inauguration Day after his re-election, March 4, 1925, the Oath was administered by Chief Justice William Howard Taft. Taft also administered the Oath to Herbert Hoover on March 4, 1929.
As of October 2023, the Chief Justice of Kerala is Justice S. Manikumar. He took office on January 4, 2021. Please verify with a current source for the latest information, as judicial appointments can change.