6 Cir. I.O.P. 202: Sessions—Court Facilities and Personnel
Rules and Internal Operating Procedures of the Sixth Circuit — Administrative Rules
(a) Courtroom Deputies. The clerk's office provides courtroom deputies.
(b) Physical Facilities. The court is located in the Potter Stewart U.S. Courthouse at Fifth and Walnut Streets in Cincinnati, Ohio, 45202. The building contains three courtrooms for the Sixth Circuit and chambers for each active and senior circuit judge. The building also contains the circuit executive's office, the clerk's office, the staff attorneys' office, and the library.
(c) Judges and Other Supporting Personnel.
(1) Judges. The Sixth Circuit is authorized to have sixteen active judges. Each active judge is authorized to have three law clerks and two judicial assistants or, instead, four law clerks and one judicial assistant. The chief judge is authorized one additional law clerk and judicial assistant. The court is also served by senior circuit and visiting judges who sit with panels of the court.
(2) Circuit Executive. The circuit executive and staff are an arm of the Judicial Council of the circuit and provide administrative support to the court. The circuit executive's services are designed to assist judges to free them for their primary duty of adjudication and, particularly, to assist the chief judge with administrative duties.
(3) Staff Attorneys. The court appoints a senior staff attorney and supervisory staff attorneys to supervise the staff attorney's office. The office provides legal support to the court as a whole, rather than to individual judges by making dispositional recommendations in those cases that the court has decided do not require oral argument under Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2).