Role Of A Court Clerk

The Clerk of Court is responsible for making sure the court trial runs efficiently and maintaining court records with the extreme care and security. The Court Clerk officer keeps all the records of criminal felony and misdemeanor cases, civil, family, probate and small claims proceedings, juvenile cases, and traffic citations. Along with being in a court trial, the Clerk has the right to issues marriage licenses and is authorized to perform marriage ceremonies. It is very important to have a Court Clerk as they attend all the board meetings, records the proceedings and maintains minutes of each meeting, and ensures that the law authorizes all expenditures of the regions funds.

A Court Clerk may seem like they don’t do much; however, they