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Leonidas Ralph Mecham papers, 1949-2006

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Mecham, Leonidas Ralph
Title
Leonidas Ralph Mecham papers
Dates
1949-2006 (inclusive)
Quantity
23 linear feet
Collection Number
ACCN 2288
Summary
The Leonidas Ralph Mecham papers (1949-2006) consists of materials collected and written during the span of Mecham's career. They include research done for various federal court cases, his life summary, and his family correspondence and sketches. Mecham served as the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts for over twenty years.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Leonidas Ralph Mecham (b.1928) served as the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts for over twenty years. He retired in April 2006. He received his B.S. in Political Science from the University of Utah in 1951 and his Master's of Public Administration from Harvard University in 1963.

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Content Description

The Leonidas Ralph Mecham papers (1949-2006) consists of materials collected and written during the span of Mecham's career. They include research done for various federal court cases, his life summary, and his family correspondence and sketches.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Gift of Leonidas Ralph Mecham in 2006.

Separated Materials

Photographs (P1287) and a video (A0113) were transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

Processing Note

Processed by Erin McCarthy in 2006.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Files A-Z

    • Description: A, Correspondence
      Dates: 1985-1998
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Annual Report of the Director
      Dates: 1990-2005
      Container: Box 1, Folder 2-4
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Administrative Office, Director
      Dates: 1984-1985
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Administrative Office History
      Dates: 1999-2004
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Administrative Office Study
      Dates: 1985-1986
      Container: Box 2, Folder 2
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Administrative Office Ten-Year Anniversary
      Dates: 1985-1995
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3-5
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Atlantic Richfield Company Organization (ARCO) Correspondence
      Dates: 1973-1999
      Container: Box 3, Folder 1
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Atlantic Richfield Company Organization (ARCO) Lawsuit
      Dates: 1996-1998
      Container: Box 3, Folder 2
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: B, Correspondence
      Dates: 1973-2006
      Container: Box 4, Folder 1-3
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Justice Warren Burger
      Dates: 1985-1986
      Container: Box 4, Folder 4
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: C, Correspondence
      Dates: 1973-2006
      Container: Box 5, Folder 1-3
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Chief Justice
      Dates: 1981-2005
      Container: Box 6
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Chief Justice
      Dates: 1981-2005
      Container: Box 7
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Chief Justice
      Dates: 1981-2005
      Container: Box 8
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Chief Justice
      Dates: 1981-2005
      Container: Box 9
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Chief Justice
      Dates: 1981-2005
      Container: Box 10
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Chief Justice
      Dates: 1981-2005
      Container: Box 11
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Chief Justice
      Dates: 1981-2005
      Container: Box 12
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Chief Justice
      Dates: 1981-2005
      Container: Box 13
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Church
      Dates: 1988-2006
      Container: Box 14
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: D, Correspondence
      Dates: 1973-2005
      Container: Box 15, Folder 1
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: District Judge Representatives
      Dates: 1989-1993
      Container: Box 15, Folder 2
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: E, Correspondence
      Dates: 1972-2003
      Container: Box 15, Folder 3
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Executive Committee
      Dates: 1993-2002
      Container: Box 16
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Executive Committee
      Dates: 2003-2005
      Container: Box 17
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: F, Correspondence
      Dates: 1972-2005
      Container: Box 18, Folder 1-2
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Federal Judicial Center
      Dates: 1991-2004
      Container: Box 18, Folder 3-5
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Hodges Committee/Motions
      Dates: 1997-1998
      Container: Box 19
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Federal Judicial Center Strategic Plan Report
      Dates: 1991-1997
      Container: Box 20, Folder 1-3
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Feidler
      Dates: 1993-1994
      Container: Box 20, Folder 4
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: G, Correspondence
      Dates: 1973-2005
      Container: Box 21, Folder 1
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Genealogy
      Dates: 2001-2005
      Container: Box 21, Folder 2
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Genealogy, Book of Remembrance
      Dates: 1953-1982
      Container: Box 21, Folder 3
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: H, Correspondence
      Dates: 1985-2006
      Container: Box 22
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 23, Folder 1
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Articles
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 23, Folder 2
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Articles, Houston Chronicle
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 23, Folder 3
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Articles, New York Times
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 23, Folder 4
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Berman-Conyers Amendment
      Dates: 2001-2002
      Container: Box 23, Folder 5
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Blocking Proposal
      Dates: 1999
      Container: Box 23, Folder 6
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Chronology
      Dates: 2001-2002
      Container: Box 23, Folder 7
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Executive Committee
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 23, Folder 8-9
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Gateways
      Dates: 2001-2002
      Container: Box 24, Folder 1
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Inappropriate Use
      Dates: 1999-2001
      Container: Box 24, Folder 2
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Intrusion Detection
      Dates: 1999-2001
      Container: Box 24, Folder 3
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use National Security Agency Opinion
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 24, Folder 4
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use IT Committee
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 24, Folder 5-6
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Report IT Committee
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 24, Folder 7
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Judicial Conference
      Dates: 1997-2001
      Container: Box 24, Folder 8
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Kozinski
      Dates: 2001-2005
      Container: Box 25, Folder 1-2
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Video Transcript, Cybercrime
      Container: Box 25, Folder 3
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Legal Opinions
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 25, Folder 4
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Monitoring Opinions
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 25, Folder 5-6
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Ninth Circuit
      Dates: 1998-2003
      Container: Box 26, Folder 1-2
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Notification
      Dates: 1996-2001
      Container: Box 26, Folder 3
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Resolutions
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 26, Folder 4
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Resolutions, Budget Committee
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 26, Folder 5
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Resolutions, IT Committee
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 26, Folder 6
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Internet Use Security
      Dates: 2001
      Container: Box 26, Folder 7
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Interior Department
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 26, Folder 8
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Israel
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 26, Folder 9
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: J, Correspondence
      Dates: 1972-2006
      Container: Box 27, Folder 1
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Grady Jolly
      Dates: 2002-2003
      Container: Box 27, Folder 2
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Judicial Conference
      Dates: 1991-2005
      Container: Box 28
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Judicial Conference
      Dates: 1991-2005
      Container: Box 29
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Judicial Conference
      Dates: 1991-2005
      Container: Box 30
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Judicial Conference
      Dates: 1991-2005
      Container: Box 31
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Judicial Conference
      Dates: 1991-2005
      Container: Box 32
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Judicial Conference Director's Report
      Dates: 1990-2005
      Container: Box 33, Folder 1-4
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Judicial Conference Director's Report
      Dates: 1990-2005
      Container: Box 34, Folder 1-4
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: K, Correspondence
      Dates: 1989-2006
      Container: Box 35, Folder 1
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Carolyn King
      Dates: 2005
      Container: Box 35, Folder 2
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: L, Correspondence
      Dates: 1986-2006
      Container: Box 35, Folder 3
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Clarence A. Lee (Pete)
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 35, Folder 4
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Leonidas
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 35, Folder 5
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: M, Correspondence
      Dates: 1985-2006
      Container: Box 36
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: M, Correspondence
      Dates: 1985-2006
      Container: Box 37
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Maxwell Chair
      Dates: 1998-1999
      Container: Box 38, Folder 1
      Location: Files A-Z

    • Leonidas Ralph Mecham

    • Description: N, Correspondence
      Dates: 1985-2003
      Container: Box 43, Folder 4
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: O, Correspondence
      Dates: 1985-2004
      Container: Box 43, Folder 5
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Office of Management and Budget Relations
      Dates: 1993-1994
      Container: Box 43, Folder 6-7
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: P, Correspondence
      Dates: 1986-2006
      Container: Box 44, Folder 1
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Q, Correspondence
      Dates: 1992-2006
      Container: Box 44, Folder 2
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: R, Correspondence
      Dates: 1985-2005
      Container: Box 44, Folder 3
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Research Park (U of U)
      Dates: 1995-1998
      Container: Box 44, Folder 4-5
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Rishikof
      Dates: 1995
      Container: Box 44, Folder 6
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: S, Correspondence
      Dates: 1973-2006
      Container: Box 45, Folder 1-2
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Spotlight
      Dates: 1993-2001
      Container: Box 45, Folder 3-5
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: Spotlight
      Dates: 2002-2006
      Container: Box 46
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: T, Correspondence
      Dates: 1985-2006
      Container: Box 47, Folder 1
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: The Third Branch
      Dates: 1990-1996
      Container: Box 47, Folder 2-4
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: The Third Branch
      Dates: 1997-2006
      Container: Box 48
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: U, Correspondence
      Dates: 1986-2006
      Container: Box 49, Folder 1
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: V, Correspondence
      Dates: 1988-1999
      Container: Box 49, Folder 2
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: W, Correspondence
      Dates: 1985-2005
      Container: Box 49, Folder 3-4
      Location: Files A-Z
    • Description: X, Y, Z, Correspondence
      Dates: 1985-2005
      Container: Box 49, Folder 5
      Location: Files A-Z

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Subject Terms

  • Courts--Utah--Sources

Personal Names

  • Mecham, Leonidas Ralph--Archives

Corporate Names

  • United States. Administrative Office of the United States Courts--Officials and employees

Form or Genre Terms

  • Correspondence

Finding aid created by Erin McCarthy.
2006 (last modified: 2020)

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