diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/admin/CoreAdminHandler.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/admin/CoreAdminHandler.java
index 61e51e7f8d1..a93a44ecb44 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/admin/CoreAdminHandler.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/handler/admin/CoreAdminHandler.java
@@ -119,6 +119,8 @@ public class CoreAdminHandler extends RequestHandlerBase {
     // Unlike most request handlers, CoreContainer initialization 
     // should happen in the constructor...  
     this.coreContainer = null;
+    this.parallelExecutor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(50,
+        new DefaultSolrThreadFactory("parallelCoreAdminExecutor"));
   }
 
 
@@ -129,6 +131,8 @@ public class CoreAdminHandler extends RequestHandlerBase {
    */
   public CoreAdminHandler(final CoreContainer coreContainer) {
     this.coreContainer = coreContainer;
+    this.parallelExecutor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(50,
+        new DefaultSolrThreadFactory("parallelCoreAdminExecutor"));
   }
 
 
@@ -186,10 +190,7 @@ public class CoreAdminHandler extends RequestHandlerBase {
       handleRequestInternal(req, rsp, action);
     } else {
       ParallelCoreAdminHandlerThread parallelHandlerThread = new ParallelCoreAdminHandlerThread(req, rsp, action, taskObject);
-      if(parallelExecutor == null || parallelExecutor.isShutdown())
-        parallelExecutor = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(50,
-                  new DefaultSolrThreadFactory("parallelCoreAdminExecutor"));
-        parallelExecutor.execute(parallelHandlerThread);
+      parallelExecutor.execute(parallelHandlerThread);
     }
   }