Up until 2007, the Swiss Federal Council, the supreme executive authority of Switzerland, also served as a final court of appeal in certain areas of administrative law.

The Federal Administrative Court is organised in six divisions with 73 judges in total:[1] The judges are elected by the Federal Assembly of Switzerland and serve for six years; reelections are possible.

Since 2022, the president of the Federal Administrative Court is Vito Valenti.

The Federal Administrative Court took up work in Bern on 1 January 2007.

It was relocated to its permanent seat in St. Gallen in summer 2012 after the construction of the court building there was completed.