How are administrative offices of the courts structured?
Although every court is structured differently, administrative offices are usually directly subordinate to the supreme court or the chief justice. Within the AOCs, there is usually an executive office, which controls the various departments that administer the nonjudicial business of the courts. Subdepartments within the AOC include human resources, finance, judiciary management, community relations, and intergovernmental relations. There could be as many subdepartments as there are functions for the AOC.Within individual offices, the state court administrator delegates duties to multiple layers of administrators, and there are usually directors for each major area the AOC controls. There is usually a director (the state court administrator); a deputy court administrator depending on the administrative load of the state; and a separate department head for human resources, legal affairs, finance, and other administrative branches.For an example of the structure of an administrative offi
