Each of the Justices of the Supreme Court has a single vote in deciding the cases argued before it; the Chief Justice has no more authority than any other Justice. The difference is that the Chief Justice has certain adminstrative responsibilities that the other Justices do not.
Justice Marvin R. Baxter of the California SupremeCourt was born January 9, 1940 in Fowler (Fresno County), California.
Baxter was appointed and confirmed as an AssociateJustice of the Court of Appeal, Fifth Appellate District (headquartered in Fresno) in December 1988.
He was elevated to serve as an AssociateJustice of the SupremeCourt of California in January 1991 and, in 2002, was re-elected to a new term of office which began on January 7, 2003.
The SupremeCourt is composed of a chief justice and eight associatejustices, all of whom are appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
The court consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight AssociateJustices of the SupremeCourt of the United States, who are nominated by the President and confirmed with the "advice and consent" of the Senate.
Thus, for example, the Court between 1969 and 1986 is referred to as the "Burger Court" (for Chief Justice Warren E. Burger) and the Court between 1986 and 2005 is referred to as the "Rehnquist Court" (for Chief Justice William Rehnquist).
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