October 2006

Exemplary Service to the Courts Recognized

The first Leonidas Ralph Mecham Awards for Exemplary Service to the Courts were presented last month at the Administrative Office. The award recipients were Andy Sirotta (photo left) in the Technology Division of the Office of Court Administration, and George Reynolds (second from left), chief of the Financial Disclosure Office and staff counsel to the Judicial Conference Committee on Financial Disclosure. AO Director James C. Duff (second from right) and Judge Robert B. Kugler (D. NJ) (photo right), chair of the Judicial Conference Committee on the Administrative Office, presented the awards.

The Judicial Conference Committee on the Administrative Office established the awards to honor individual AO staff for significant accomplishments that have improved court administration, internal controls, program effectiveness, communications, or efficiency in the courts or the AO. The award is named in honor of Leonidas Ralph Mecham, who served as Director of the AO from 1985 to 2006.