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Court Manager Vol. 38 #1 – Winter 2024
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Vol. 38 #1 – Winter 2024

In this Issue:
  • A Beacon of Hope: Transforming Municipal Courts with Comprehensive Services

  • Assistive Listening Systems in Courtrooms: What Court Managers Need to Know

  • What’s the Ideal Manager-Employee Relationship?

Features

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    A Beacon of Hope: Transforming Municipal Courts with Comprehensive Services

    by Mary Kay Fenlon
    In an era where justice and rehabilitation hold increasing importance, municipal courts shine as a beacon of hope and progress. Local courts go beyond traditional justice by addressing the root causes of criminal behavior, facilitating individuals’ rebuilding of their lives,... Read more »
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    Assistive Listening Systems in Courtrooms: What Court Managers Need to Know

    by Mikey Shaffer
    Ensuring all participants and observers can hear clearly during court proceedings is essential to fair and efficient trials. If jurors, litigators, defendants, judges, transcriptionists, and others in a courtroom cannot hear and understand what is being said, the due process... Read more »
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    What’s the Ideal Manager-Employee Relationship?

    by Kim Scott
    You may have seen me featured as “The Candid Boss” for The Muse, an online career resource destination. One of the questions I am often asked is, can managers and employees be friends at work? An even more essential question to ask is, what does an ideal manager-employee relationship look like?
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Departments

President’s Message

by Rick Pierce

Management Musings

by Giuseppe M. Fazari

A Question of Ethics

by Peter Kiefer

Courtside Conversation
Whitney Freese

by Carlene Redmond
New Members
Sustaining Members
2024–2025 Board of Directors

National Association for Court Management


The National Association for Court Management is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of judicial administration at all levels of courts nationwide. In carrying out its purpose, the association strives to provide its members with professional education and to encourage the exchange of useful information among them; encourages the application of modern management techniques to courts; and, through the work of its committees, supports research and development in the field of court management, the independence of the judicial branch, and the impartial administration of the courts.

EDITORS

Joseph D'Amico

Trial Court Administrator
17th Judicial Circuit Court, Fort Lauderdale, FL
jdamico@17th.flcourts.org


Jessica Humphreys

Superior Court Director
Yakima County Superior Court, Yakima, WA
jessica.humphreys@co.yakima.wa.us


MANAGING EDITOR

NATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS

300 Newport Ave., Williamsburg, VA 23185
(800) 616-6164

communications@ncsc.org

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