Vice Chair

The Vice Chair, known as the Vice Chairman and also known as the Vice Chancellor, Vice chair of the Senate, or as the Senate Speaker, was the presiding officer in the Galactic Senate of the Galactic Republic with the purpose in maintaining procedures and protocol in the chamber and maintaining order among its senators as speaker.

Mas Amedda served as vice chair during the twilight years of the Republic, first under Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum and then his successor, Sheev Palpatine of Naboo. In the aftermath of the Clone Wars, Amedda became the Grand Vizier of the Galactic Empire.

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