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Judiciary Honors Mecham
Leonidas Ralph Mecham, Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. presented the Judicial Conference resolution
honoring AO Director Leonidas Ralph Mecham, and lauded Mecham's contributions to
the federal courts. Roberts said, "it has been extraordinarily helpful to me in
getting started in my position to have Ralph Mecham and his decades of
experience there at my side to call on during the period in which everything is
new for me."
The Great Hall of the Supreme Court was the setting for a Judicial Conference
dinner honoring retiring Administrative Office Director Leonidas Ralph Mecham.
Members of Mecham's family, friends including Senators Orrin Hatch and Robert F.
Bennett, several Supreme Court justices, and members of the Judicial Conference
attended.
Circuit Executive for the 11th Circuit Norman E. Zoller, on behalf of the
Circuit Executives, gave Mecham a memento of his years of service.
Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan, chair of the Conference Executive Committee,
presented Mecham and his wife Barbara with a remembrance from the committee.