officeholder

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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

A new LGBTQ+ resource center is set to open in the city, where an independent candidate surprisingly defeated a longtime Republican officeholder to become the first Black mayor of the city of roughly 480,000 people.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 18, 2023

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

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2023

The interest of individual liberty in relation to the organization of democracy demands simply that the individual officeholder should possess an amount of power and independence adequate to the efficient performance of his work.

From The Promise of American Life by Croly, Herbert David