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Court Manager Vol. 38 #4 – Fall 2024
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Vol. 38 #4 – Fall 2024

In this Issue:
  • 2024 State of the Profession

  • From Climbing to Coaching: The Journey to Peak Employee Engagement

  • Courting AI: Understanding AI in Courts

  • We’re in This Together: Improving Outcomes for Justice-Involved People with Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders

  • NACM Holds 2024 Annual Conference

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    2024 State of the Profession

    by Rick Pierce, Angie Van Schoick, Shirley Olson, Eric Silverberg, TJ BeMent, Creadell Webb, Roger Rand, and Nicole Garcia
    This year’s theme is “Leadership Opportunities and Challenges for Our Nation’s Courts: Leading Leaders into the New Tomorrow.” Each of you attending this conference, either in person or virtually...
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    From Climbing to Coaching: The Journey to Peak Employee Engagement

    by Sarah Mathews
    In May of 2021, I joined my husband and son on a rock-climbing trip. While the focus of the trip was having fun as a family, the trip quickly turned into a real-life training in leadership and coaching employees.
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    Courting AI: Understanding AI in Courts

    by Roger Rand
    Courting AI: Navigating Artificial Intelligence in Courts is the National Association for Court Management’s (NACM) 22nd guide. Courting AI is available for download from the NACM Store. The guide is free for NACM members and $10 for nonmembers. In addition... Read more »
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    We’re in This Together: Improving Outcomes for Justice-Involved People with Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders

    by Brooke Glisson and Chris Deutsch
    Today, Deena Davis is a certified peer support specialist who works in the same treatment court that saved her life and reunited her family. Deena grew up in small-town Georgia, where she was an honor-roll student and captain of the... Read more »
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    NACM Holds 2024 Annual Conference

    by Melinda Brooks
    The NACM Annual Conference was held in New Orleans in July, with 674 people attending and 49 participating virtually. The theme was Leadership Opportunities and Challenges for Our Nation’s Courts: Leading Leaders into the New Tomorrow. Scholarship Recipients Share Their... Read more »
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Departments

President’s Message

by Tina Mattison

Management Musings

by Giuseppe M. Fazari

A Question of Ethics

by Peter Kiefer

Courtside Conversation
Tina Mattison

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

Charles Campbell

National Center for State Courts
300 Newport Ave., Williamsburg, VA 23185
(757) 259-1838 ccampbell@ncsc.org

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