Rule Text
The court en banc may appoint and fix the salary of a judicial administrator to assist the court in fulfilling its administrative obligations. Those judicial districts that have appointed an administrator are listed in Appendix 4.1.
Websites for district courts and clerks of court, where available, are also listed in Appendix 4.1.
Amendment history: Adopted April 1, 2002, effective April 1, 2002; amended November 3, 2008, effective January 1, 2009; amended November 20, 2009, effective January 1, 2010; amended April 20, 2010, effective June 1, 2010.
Plain-English Summary (for reference only — not a substitute for the rule text above)
This summary is not the rule. The rule text controls.
Judges in a district can choose to hire a judicial administrator to help handle the court's administrative work. The judges as a group decide whether to appoint this person and how much they get paid.
Not every district has one of these administrators. If you want to know whether a specific district has appointed one, you can check Appendix 4.1, which lists which districts have made this choice. That same appendix also gives you website links for district courts and clerks of court, so you can find contact information or other details you might need.
Committee Notes
(a) Previous rules of court adopted by individual judicial districts often included various rules dealing with court reporters, court criers, and bailiffs. Many of those rules duplicated revised statutes or code articles.
(b) No provisions restating existing law have been included in these Rules. The citations to authority for the deleted topics are as follows:
(1) Court Reporters – La. R.S. 13:961, 982; La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 372.
(2) Criers – La. Code Civ. Proc. art. 333.
(3) Docket and Minute Books – La. Code Civ. Proc. arts. 254 and 256.
(4) Costs of transcription, maximum and minimum court reporter fees – La. R.S. 13:961, et seq.