Administrative Office of the Courts Office of Court Construction and Management
455 Golden Gate Avenue, 8th Floor
San Francisco, California
94102-3688
PHONE
415-865-4900
EMAIL
occm@jud.ca.gov
CUSTOMER SUPPORT CENTER
For courts to report facility issues:
888-225-3583 or csc@jud.ca.gov
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Leadership and Organization
Contact Info
OCCM provides the leadership, and assumes responsibility and accountability, for court-capital fiscal oversight, planning, design and construction, and asset management. OCCM is structured in three major teams with the following areas of responsibility:
Business and Planning: Business and finance, planning and policy, and special projects
Design and Construction: Capital project management, architecture and engineering services, construction management
Real Estate and Asset Management: Transaction and portfolio services,environmental analysis, and facilities management
Leadership
Division Director Lee Willoughby brings to his position over 30 years of experience in the design and construction industry. Before joining the AOC in 2004, he held management positions with the executive branch of the State of California and with a variety of private-sector firms, including real estate developers, general contractors, a major subcontractor, and construction management firms. Throughout his career, he has been responsible for developing innovative and effective project delivery procedures. Mr. Willoughby has a bachelor's degree in systems engineering and a master's degree in business administration.
Robert Emerson is OCCM's Assistant Division Director for Business and Planning. He joined the AOC in 2000, and has provided his expertise and leadership to OCCM since its inception. Before joining the AOC, he was a project management consultant concentrating in commercial and industrial facilities development. Mr. Emerson is a registered professional engineer and has a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master's degree from Stanford University, and two certificates in environmental hazard management from the University of California at Berkeley Extension.
Burt Hirschfeld is OCCM's Assistant Division Director for Real Estate and Asset Management. Before joining the AOC in 2004, Mr. Hirschfeld was the West Coast director of asset management for DRA Advisors LLC, a New York-based real estate investment firm. Previously, he held positions in corporate real estate, first as a transaction and project manager for Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, then in a strategic planning role for American Express and the Trammell Crow Company. Mr. Hirschfeld holds a degree in international relations from San Francisco State University and a master of corporate real estate certification from the Institute of Corporate Real Estate.
S. Ernest "Ernie" Swickard, AIA, is OCCM's Assistant Director of Design and Construction. Before joining the AOC in 2004, Mr. Swickard was a project manager for the Capital Construction Development Department of USC. He also worked for many years in hospital project management for Kaiser Permanente in Southern California, following private practice in which he was a managing principal at Leason Pomeroy Associates. A registered architect in the State of California, he also holds a National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) certificate. Mr. Swickard received a bachelor of architecture degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and a master's of architecture in urban design from UCLA.