Dave Byers
Byers has also served as Chairman of the $34B Arizona State Retirement System; and is currently a member of the State Bar of Arizona; Member of the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission; a member of the Arizona Prosecuting Attorney’s Advisory Council; Governor’s Drug and Gang Policy Council; Department of Justice Global Advisory Committee. He is the Founder and first President of the National Association of Foster Care Reviewers, and Cofounder of the Arizona Friends of Foster Care Foundation. He served on, the Board of Directors, National Centers for State Courts, 2000-2001; President, Conference of State Court Administrators 2000-2001. Her currently serves on the Department of Justice Global committee, the ABA Council for Legal Education and admissions to the bar, and the Arizona Bar Board of Governors. In 2012, Byers was honored with the Gabe Zimmerman Leadership Award and received the 2013 Warren E. Burger Award. He is the recipient of the National Centers Distinguished Service Award, the Arizona Supreme Courts Distinguished Service Award, the State Bars award of Appreciation and was the Cedar Falls, Iowa, Man of the Year in 1970. B.A., Northern Iowa University. Master’s degree, Arizona State University. Married, three children, four grandchildren. |
Dave Byers is the Arizona Supreme Court’s Administrative Director of the Courts. He is responsible for overseeing the operations of the Arizona Court system with over 10,000 employees and a total budget of $740M. The system also operates both juvenile and adult probation and 13 juvenile detention centers. Byers began his career with the court in 1978 as the first Director of the Foster Care Review Board. Before being appointed Administrative Director by the Arizona Supreme Court in 1992, Byers past positions included Director of the Program Services Division, Director of Adult and Juvenile Probation, and Deputy Director of the Arizona Supreme Court.