Katina L. George

The Circuit Court Clerk ensures the efficient operations of the circuit court, general sessions court, and juvenile court by maintaining dockets and records, handling administrative matters and serving as goodwill ambassadors to the public. Some duties include: attending each court session with all the papers for the cases on the docket; administering oaths to parties and witnesses who testify; keeping minutes of the court in a well-bound book or in an electronic format so long as certain rules relating to the safekeeping of the records are followed; maintaining the rule docket and an execution docket in which all court judgments or decrees are entered in order of rendition and all receipts and disbursements in a case are entered; maintaining indexes for all books and dockets that are kept by the office.