TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 24, 2024

Robert Conrad Jr. will take over as director of the U.S. Administrative Office of the Courts as of March 1, Bloomberg Law reports. Conrad will replace Roslynn R. Mauskopf, who is stepping down at the end of this month. Lee Ann Bennett, the office’s deputy director, will lead the agency in an acting capacity for the month of February. Conrad has spent nearly two decades on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, including seven years as chief judge. He took senior status this past May. The office oversees administrative business affecting the federal court system, including drafting the judiciary’s budget requests to Congress. Read more in a press release from the U.S. Supreme Court.