Leonidas Ralph Mecham (April 23, 1928 – March 9, 2019) was the former Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, having served in that position from 1985 to 2006.

He was appointed to the position by United States Chief Justice Warren Burger in July 1985.

He returned to Washington, resuming government service as a special assistant to the United States Secretary of Commerce.

[3] In 2001, during his tenure as Director of the Administrative Office, the AO began monitoring the Internet communications of the judicial branch.

Mecham accused Kozinski of having a "great interest in keeping pornography available to judges," saying that Kozinski was "advocating his passionate views that judges are free, undetected, to download pornography and Napster music on government computers in federal court buildings on government time even though some of the downloading may constitute felonies.