CJ Roberts Chooses Next Director of the Administrative Office of the US Courts

Tony Mauro is reporting in the Legal Times that Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. has picked James Duff, managing partner of the D.C. office of Baker Donelson, to run the judicial branch as the next director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

DUff's public service career includes serving as administrative assistant to the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist from 1996 to 2000 and as aide-de-camp to Rehnquist while the chief justice presided over the 1999 Senate impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton.