Her Story
About Acacia
Acacia Hildreth is a court administration and public service professional with eight years of experience in the legal field. She serves as Court Services Manager, where her main area of expertise is operations. In this role, she oversees courthouse operations across seven departments, ensures adequate staffing for court sessions with judges, handles administrative tasks including hiring, firing, disciplinary actions, and one-on-one feedback sessions with employees, and has implemented new policies and procedures to better serve the public. Her background is complemented by ongoing studies toward a bachelor's degree in criminology with a double major in political science and a minor in sociology. She is a member of the National Association of Court Managers.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Acacia
01What do you attribute your success to?
I think just hard work, and being really diligent, and knowing that even though I wanted to continue to move forward in my career when I was younger and just starting out, knowing that it wasn't going to happen immediately, and continuing to work towards that next goal as a motivator.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
My mentor through the NACM program often says to be like a goldfish, have a three-second memory, forget it, move on, keep going. I think about that all the time.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
The work is difficult, but the benefits are rewarding. When you get to see someone come in who is excited because they completed a term of their judgment, or they're coming back in because they're getting custody back of their kids, that is rewarding. We see people on the worst day of their lives, not the best day.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Some of the biggest challenges we face in our field right now are inadequate staffing. A lot of courts across the country are also facing this, and then we're also all facing issues with workflow management, and then additionally with public trust, because if you don't have public trust in the judiciary, how are you expected to be able to hand down the sentences and to help people in the way that you need to if there isn't public trust?
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