Source: WUNC, 1/12/21

The hiring of a new top administrator of North Carolina's court system is one of several significant personnel changes in a shake-up atop the state Judicial Branch since Chief Justice Paul Newby was sworn in this month. Newby, a Republican, chose special Superior Court Judge Andrew Heath as the next director of the Administrative Office of the Courts, a role he began last Friday. Heath had been the state budget director under then-Gov. Pat McCrory and a previous chairman of the North Carolina Industrial Commission, which adjudicates workers' compensation claims.

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