Chief Justice of New Zealand

The chief justice of New Zealand is the head of the New Zealand judiciary, and presides over the Supreme Court of New Zealand. The chief justice of New Zealand is also the chief justice of Tokelau. Before the establishment of the Supreme Court in 2004, the chief justice was the presiding judge in the High Court of New Zealand, and was also ex officio a member of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand. The office is established by the Senior Courts Act 2016, which describes the chief justice as "senior to all other judges".

23 June 1894

Born on the same birth date (23 June 1894): Alfred Kinsey • Edward VIII

Born on the same birth day (23 June): Al G. Wright • Anna Akhmatova • Arnaldo Pomodoro • Art Modell • Ben Dwarshuis • Cyclone Taylor • Felix Potvin • Francesca Schiavone • George Feigley • Georges Rouquier • Joel Edgerton • Johan Banér • KT Tunstall • Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior • Levern Spencer • Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland • Roger McDonald • Tatsuya Uemura • Yann Tiersen • Zoran Janjetov

Born in the same month (June 1894): Bernard Ashmole • Edward VIII • Harry Schmidt (mathematician) • Jacques Henri Lartigue • Jessie Baetz • Lloyd Hall • Marie-Adélaïde, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg • Milward Kennedy • Nikolai Chebotaryov • Robert Russell Bennett • Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet • W. W. E. Ross