Case Administrator

Job Description

Overview of the Position The Clerk’s Office of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana is accepting applications for a full-time Case Administrator. This position is located in the Clerk’s Office in the Fort Wayne Division. The incumbent performs various functions and is responsible for maintaining and processing case information and managing the progression of civil and criminal cases from opening to appeals to final disposition in accordance with approved internal controls, procedures, and rules. The Case Administrator performs docketing, noticing, maintains official case records, monitors the completion of required procedural steps, prepares case documents for appeal, reviews filed documents to determine conformity and takes appropriate action, ensures that all orders and automated entries are appropriately and accurately docketed, and makes summary entries on the docket of all documents and proceedings. The Case Administrator interacts extensively with judges’ chambers, attorneys, pro se litigants, government agencies, and the public. This position requires professionalism, sound judgment, trustworthiness, and flexibility.