Judge Robert J. Conrad (Bob) has been appointed as the Director of the
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, effective March 1, 2024, succeeding Judge
Roslynn R. Mauskoph who has served in that position since February 1, 2021. The
Director of the Administrative Office is the chief administrative officer of the
federal courts and serves under the direction of the Judicial Conference of the
United States. The announcement of the appointment was made by Chief Justice
John G. Roberts, who is the presiding officer of the conference.

Judge Conrad currently serves as a Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the
Western District of North Carolina. Prior to being appointed to the bench in June
2005, he served for fifteen years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western
District of North Carolina, including as the U.S. Attorney from 2001 to 2004.
During his tenure as U.S. Attorney, he was a member of the Attorney General’s
Advisory Committee and chaired the Committee on Violent Crime and co-chaired
the Committee on Terrorism.

As Director, he will assume full-time responsibility for the management of the
Administrative Office, which has over 1000 employees, and for providing
administrative support to 2400 judicial officers and over 28,000 court employees
and Federal Defender employees.

Judge Conrad graduated from Clemson University, where he was an ACC
basketball player, and from the University of Virginia School of Law.