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Lorri Montgomery
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Arkansas Court Official Selected
to Participate in Harvard Leadership Program

Williamsburg, VA (May 7, 2007)James D. Gingerich, Director of the Arkansas Administrative Office of the Courts, has been selected to participate in the leadership development program for senior executives sponsored by the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Gingerich will join other leaders from government, business and industry from the United States and around the world. His participation is funded by the National Center for State Courts, where he currently serves as a member and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors. In 2006-07 Gingerich is also serving as the President of the Conference of State Court Administrators, the association of chief court executives from each U.S. state and territory.

Gingerich has served as Arkansas’ state court administrator since 1988. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Central Arkansas, a juris doctorate from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and a master of law degree in international law from the University of Bristol, England.

 The National Center for State Courts, headquartered in Williamsburg, Va., is a non-profit court-reform organization dedicated to improving the administration of justice by providing leadership and service to the state courts. The National Center, founded in 1971 by the Conference of Chief Justices and Chief Justice of the United States Warren E. Burger, provides education, training, and technology, management, and research services to the nation’s state courts.

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