higher-up
muckamuck
vice
high muckamuck
senior
dignitary
king of the castle
magnate
underling
father
superoverlord
magnifico
the organ grinder, not the monkey
figurehead
authority figure
elitist
officer
power behind the throne
titleholder
dominance
stuffed shirt
constituter
public servant
kingmaker
meister
Kaiser
appointment
grand poobah
notability
appointee
officeholder
presider
supercrat
god
retainer
sovereign
commander
inferior
bossling
supreme
follower
truant
empty suit
no-show
nonattender
military officer
eminence
execrator
ranker
prospect
jumped-up
appointer
spear carrier
meritocrat
candidate
hierarch
big wheel
nonsubordinate
stratocrat
puisne
disponent
nonincumbent
nonequal
dictator
heretog
big daddy
high
tsar
best
official
better
ex cathedra
free spirit
archon
peon
predecessor
king
leaper
nobleman
overlord
discriminator
educrat
jack of all trades, master of none
poobah
lesser mortal
civil officer
master
highman
civil authority
run away with
lord
second fiddle
bounder
high-level
dignity