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Executive director presents staffing, licensing and testing plan; commission raises interpreter oral-exam fee ceiling
Summary
Executive Director Ron Morgan reported a rise in complaints and pending investigations, outlined a multi-point plan addressing staffing, testing and outreach, and the commission authorized an increase to the ceiling on the licensed court interpreter oral-exam fee to protect the agency against vendor cost increases.
Ron Morgan, executive director of the Judicial Branch Certification Commission, told commissioners May 2 that the commission’s caseload and licensing workload have increased and outlined a multi-part plan to address staffing, testing and outreach.
Morgan said the commission had 47 pending investigations before the meeting, up from 41 at the last quarter, and received 22 complaints in the previous month. “Complaints received between January–April of 2025 are up 80% compared to the same period in 2024,” he said, noting the majority of complaints were about process servers and that complaints regarding court reporters have also risen.
Staff provided licensing counts: more than 7,200 total licensees across professions, including roughly 2,300 court reporters, about 253 firms, 450 professional guardians, roughly 3,800 process servers, and about 484 court interpreters. Morgan said staff received 22 applications and issued 54 new…
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