# Administrative Office of the United States Courts The administrative agency of the federal judicial branch, created in 1939. It supplies the budget, personnel, statistics, technology and legislative-affairs functions for the federal courts, staffs the committees of the [[Judicial Conference of the United States]], and houses the Rules Committee Support Office that runs the suggestion docket for judicial rulemaking. Its **Director is by statute the Secretary of the Judicial Conference**, which makes the office the administrative hinge of the branch: the Director is both the chief administrator of the judiciary and the officer who assembles what the Conference considers. Director as of July 2026: [[Robert J. Conrad Jr.]] *Stub — expand with the 1939 creation, the relationship to the Federal Judicial Center and the United States Sentencing Commission, the annual budget request, and the legislative-affairs role.* ## See also - [[Judicial Conference of the United States]] - [[How a Federal Rule of Procedure Is Made]] — the suggestion docket this office maintains - [[Federal Judicial Center]] - [[Federal Judiciary Tree]]