officeholder

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This officeholder oversees the California Department of Education, which guides local school districts and also provides partial oversight.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

The officeholder also leads the more than 6,000 members of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Chief Justice Debra Todd, the highest paid judicial officeholder, will see her salary rise to $260,733, while salaries for other high court justices will rise to $253,360.

From Washington Times • Nov. 22, 2023

We have an investigative process in this country to which no former officeholder is immune.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2023

He must have had genuine ability in some directions, or else he was wonderfully lucky, for he was an officeholder of some kind or other, in different states of the Union, nearly all his life.

From The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Ketcham, Henry