first chair

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Barshay, 60 years old, is Paul Weiss’s first chair from the corporate side of the firm in its more than 150-year history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

David Kogan has been appointed as the first chair of English football's new independent regulator.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2025

Apparently Kim's security detail - of over 100 people - were unhappy with the first chair and another one - exactly the same - was produced by the Russian side, Kommersant said.

From Reuters • Sep. 14, 2023

Professor Marcus Anthony Hunter, who was UCLA’s first chair of African American studies, on why the College Board’s deletions are devastating.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2023

Then again, she thinks of Olivia in middle-school orchestra, always first chair.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti