Court Manager | Harris County Office of Court Management

Ed Wells began serving as Court Manager for the Harris County Office of Court Management in 2011, having served as Assistant Court Manager for the three previous years. Prior to this position, Mr. Wells was Clerk of the Court at the Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals from 2000-2008. Mr. Wells began his career in the courts employed by Galveston County as Court MIS Director and then as Director of the Office of Justice Administration. He has a BBA from the University of Houston – Clear Lake. In May 2006, Mr. Wells completed the National Center for State Courts’ Court Executive Development Program and is a Fellow of the Institute for Court Management. Mr. Wells serves on the Supreme Court of Texas’ Judicial Committee on Information Technology and Judicial Administration Specialization Task Force, the National Center for State Courts’ Institute for Court Management (ICM) Advisory Board and ICM Faculty and is Chair of Continuing Education for the Texas Association for Court Administration. Ed has received the Justice Charles W. Barrow Award for contributions to the profession of court administration in Texas, the Texas Center for the Judiciary’s Outstanding Non-Judicial Faculty Award, and the Justice Management Institute’s Ernest C. Friesen Award. In 2024 Mr. Wells completed the Judicial Executive Leadership program for the National Judicial College and Harvard Law School Executive Education program.