Not the least of these was the development of a budget for the Trial Court, central accounting and procurement systems, and personnel policies, procedures and standards for judges and staff who were formerly employed by counties. Over time, the Trial Court became responsible for the management of its facilities, security, libraries, automation and many other matters. The 1992 statute greatly expanded the Juvenile Court Department and ended trial de novo in the District Court Department. The Act further expanded the duties and the responsibilities of the Chief Justice for Administration and Management. There are three hundred sixty-two authorized judicial positions in the system.
Trial judges sit in more than one hundred thirty locations across the state.
The Trial Court employs more than 8,000 people. It is an institution that has a short recent history but has the benefit of the illustrious traditions and history that each of its constituent departments and courts brought to it in 1978.