adjudicator

If it passed muster with an adjudicator, it would be put on at the local playhouse.

But even then the Department adjudicator would first look at the lookout file.

An adjudicator, for instance, is the first person to make a decision.

He is the final adjudicator of civil and matrimonial causes.

The courtiers assembled round him; and as it happens in the story-book, the King now performed his part of ultimate adjudicator.