Question: What was the first position of the Chief Justice who wrote the opinion for Dalton v Specter?
Context: The basis of the Bahamian Law and legal system lies within the English Common Law tradition.  Justices of the Supreme Court, Registrars and Magistrates are all appointed by The Governor-General acting on the advice of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission, which is composed of five individuals who are headed by the Chief Justice as their chairman.  The Chief Justice and the Justices of the Court of Appeal, including the President, are appointed by the Governor-General on the recommendation of the Prime Minister after consultation with the Leader of the Opposition.  Once appointed, the salaries and other terms of appointment of the Chief Justice, Justices of Appeal and Justices of the Supreme Court cannot be altered to their disadvantage.  Justices of the Supreme Court can serve until the age of 65 years and, where agreed among the judge, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, may serve until the age of 67.  Justices of Appeal can serve until the age of 68 years and, where agreed among the judge, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, may serve until the age of 70 years.  The law of The Bahamas makes provisions for the appointment of 12 Justices to the Bench of the Supreme Court, inclusive of the Chief Justice, and for five Justices of the Court of Appeal, inclusive of the President.  The Chief Justice, as Head of the Judiciary, is an ex officio member of the Court of Appeal, but only sits at the invitation of the President. Costa Pleicones (born February 29, 1944) is an American jurist who served as the Chief Justice of South Carolina.  He has served on the court since being elected in February 2000 to replace Justice Toal (who assumed the chief justice position at that time).  He was sworn in on March 29, 2000.  Before being elected to the court, his judicial experience included serving on the courts for the city of Columbia and as a Circuit Court Judge.  On May 27, 2015, Justice Pleicones was elected to replace Chief Justice Jean Toal.  His term began January 1, 2016, and his investiture as Chief Justice of South Carolina took place on January 7, 2016. Dalton v. Specter, 511 U.S. 462 (1994) , was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that an Executive Order to shut down the Philadelphia Naval Base was not subject to judicial review.  In an opinion written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the Court held that the decision to close the base was not subject to review under the Administrative Procedure Act because the decision to close the base did not constitute the final action of an agency.  Additionally, the Court held that the decision to close the base, which was made pursuant to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, was not subject to judicial review because the 1990 Act "commits decisionmaking to the discretion of the President". Henry McIver was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court.  He was born on September 25, 1826, near Society Hill, South Carolina to Alexander McIver and Mary Hanford McIver.  He moved to Cheraw, South Carolina in 1836 with his family.  In 1846, he graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina).  He studied law with his father after college, and he was admitted to practice law in December 1847.  he married Caroline H. Powe on June 7, 1849.  When McIver's father died in July 1850, Governor Seabrook appointed McIver to complete his father's term as the solicitor (prosecutor) for the eastern circuit of the state.  At the end of the term, McIver did not run for a full term; however, the successor himself died in office, and McIver was again appointed to conclude the unexpired term.  At the end of that second term, McIver was elected to a full term.  He continued being re-elected to the position until 1868 when he was removed from office as part of Reconstruction.  McIver served in the Confederate army and returned to his law practice after the Civil War.  On May 19, 1877, he was elected as an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court to fill the unexpired term of the Justice Willard who had become chief justice of the court.  The General Assembly elected McIver unanimously to a full term in December 1879.  He served in that position until he was elected and immediately sworn in as chief justice on December 1, 1891, replacing Chief Justice Simpson. McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, 514 U.S. 334 (1995), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that an Ohio statute that prohibits anonymous political or campaign literature is unconstitutional.  Writing for the Court, Justice Stevens asserted that such action is protected by the First Amendment, and therefore violated the constitutional principle of freedom of speech.  Justice Scalia dissented, in an opinion which Chief Justice Rehnquist joined.  Justice Ginsburg wrote a concurrence, while Justice Thomas wrote an opinion concurring in the judgment. The Jay Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1789 to 1795, when John Jay served as the first Chief Justice of the United States.  Jay served as Chief Justice until his resignation, at which point John Rutledge took office as a recess appointment.  The Supreme Court was established in Article III of the United States Constitution, but the workings of the federal court system were largely laid out by the Judiciary Act of 1789, which set the size of the Supreme Court at six seats.  The court had its first public session in February 1790, but did not decide its first case until 1791.  The court met first in New York City, but moved with the rest of the federal government to Philadelphia in 1791.  In addition to their duties as a court, each justice spent much of his time riding circuit outside of the capital.  The court decided relatively few cases, and perhaps the most important legacy of the court was its refusal to issue an advisory opinion sought by President George Washington, establishing a precedent that the court only hears cases and controversies.  The relative unimportance of the Supreme Court at this time is perhaps best exemplified by the fact that Jay, the sitting Chief Justice, traveled to the United Kingdom in 1794 to negotiate the Jay Treaty for the Washington Administration. Hugh Denis Macrossan (20 February 1881 – 23 June 1940) was a politician and judge in Queensland, a State of Australia.  He was elected as a member of the Queensland Parliament, and was later to become a judge and also the Chief Justice of Queensland.  He was the son of a prominent Queensland politician, and he was elected as a member of parliament.  He served as a judge from 1926, until his appointment as chief justice in 1940 and his death later that year.  He is unique in Queensland history as the shortest serving chief justice, serving only one month, and one of only two chief justice to have a brother and nephew served as chief justice. Rebecca White Berch (born 1951) is a former justice on the Arizona Supreme Court.  On July 1, 2009, she began a five-year term as the court's Chief Justice, a position to which she was elected by her peers on the court.  As chief justice, she succeeds Ruth McGregor.  She concluded her service as Arizona's Chief Justice in July 2014 when she passed the gavel to Chief Justice Scott Bales.  Berch has been a justice of the state's highest court since March 2002, when she was appointed to the court by Republican governor Jane Dee Hull.  Justice Berch retired in September 2015. William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1, 1924 – September 3, 2005) was an American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States for 33 years, first as an Associate Justice from 1972 to 1986, and then as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2005.  Considered a conservative, Rehnquist favored a conception of federalism that emphasized the Tenth Amendment's reservation of powers to the states.  Under this view of federalism the court, for the first time since the 1930s, struck down an act of Congress as exceeding its power under the Commerce Clause. The Chief Justice of Texas presides at the Texas Supreme Court, which is the top appellate court for civil matters in the Texas court system.  The chief justice (and all the justices) are elected statewide in partisan elections.  The term of the chief justice is six years.  The position was created in the Texas Constitution of 1876.  The current chief justice is Nathan L. Hecht.
Answer: Associate Justice