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Supreme Court Judicial Administrator
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Hugh
M. Collins, Ph.D.
Judicial Administrator
HUGH M. COLLINS,
Ph.D., was born on November 4, 1944 in Mobile, Alabama. He
received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from
Boston College in 1966. In 1971 he received a Ph.D. in Mathematics
from Tulane University. He is a graduate of the Institute
of Court Management. Dr. Collins was a Fellow in the Social
Psychiatry Post doctoral Fellowship Training Program at the
Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans from 1971
to 1972 and later served as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
(Mathematics) in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology
at Tulane University School of Medicine. He is a Fellow of
the Institute of Politics, Loyola University. From 1972 to
1978, Dr. Collins served as a consultant to the Superintendent
and to the Research and Planning Division of the New Orleans
Police Department.
In 1974 Dr. Collins
joined the staff of the Louisiana Supreme Court Judicial Administrator's
Office as Deputy Judicial Administrator for Systems Analysis.
In 1980 he became Chief Deputy Administrator and Deputy Chief
Executive Officer of the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana.
In 1987 he was designated Acting Judicial Administrator of
the Louisiana Supreme Court and in 1988 was appointed Judicial
Administrator. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer
of the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana.
He is a former Chair
of the Board of Directors of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater
New Orleans. From 1979 to 1980 he served as President of the
National Council for Judicial Planning. He is former President
of the Board of Governors of the Friends of the New Orleans
Public Library. From 1982 to 1984, he served as Chair of the
National Task Force on Principles for Assessing the Adequacy
of Judicial Resources and is a member of the Conference of
State Court Administrators (COSCA) Board of Directors and
currently is a COSCA liaison to the American Judges Association. He is a member of the Louisiana Court Administrators Association, the National Association for Court Management (NACM), the COSCA Court Statistics Project, the Justice Research and Statistics Association, the Louisiana State/Federal Judicial Council, the Forum of the Advancement of Court Technology, the Governor’s Advisory and Review Commission on Assistant District Attorneys, the Royal Street Advisory Board, the COSCA/NACM Joint Technology Committee, the FBI CJIS Advisory Policy Board, the Board of Directors of Partners in Art of the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Board of Directors of Alliance Française, and the scientific research society of Sigma Xi.
In 1990 he received the Distinguished Service Award presented annually by the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) for outstanding contributions to the administration of justice nationally. In 1998, he was inducted into the Warren E. Burger Society, which
honors individuals who have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to improving the administration of justice through extraordinary contributions of service and support to the NCSC. Dr. Collins received the 1999 Glenn R. Winters Award, which is presented by the American Judges Association to a lay person who
has made a substantial contribution to improving
the image of the judiciary. In 2007, Dr. Collins was awarded the prestigious Kenneth Palmer Award in recognition of his service to the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA) at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Conference of Chief Justices and COSCA.
Dr. Collins is married
to Sheila O'Donnell of New Orleans, also a Ph.D. in Mathematics
and Chair of the Mathematics Department at Isidore Newman
School.
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