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Contest for County Clerk
County
Fayette County
primary - Partisan - County Clerk
About this office
The Fayette County Clerk's office handles motor-vehicle registrations and license plates, issues marriage licenses, and processes business-tax registrations. In a smaller county the Clerk's office also handles duties that in larger counties may be split among specialized offices. Separate elected office from the Register of Deeds. Limited to two consecutive four-year terms.
Term length: 4 years.
This role calls for
- Administration of motor-vehicle registration, license plates, marriage licenses, and business-tax registrations.
- Working knowledge of Tennessee statutes governing each of those functions, which change regularly.
- Customer-service capacity: the Clerk's office is one of the most-visited county offices by ordinary residents.
- Financial controls for collecting state and local fees and remitting them accurately.
- Supervision of a small office staff handling high transaction volume.
Derived from the office's statutory duties and operational reality. Candidate summaries below map each candidate's documented experience to these requirements.
Campaigns
Republican Primary
1 candidate
Shana N. Burch
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Incumbent Fayette County Clerk, main office at 1 Court Square in Somerville with satellite offices in Oakland and Piperton. Runs the county's motor-vehicle registrations, license plates, marriage licenses, and business-tax registrations — direct operational experience with the clerk's statutory duties. Listed in the UT County Technical Assistance Service directory. Has filed 2024, 2025, and 2026 Tennessee Ethics Commission Statement of Interest forms in the County Clerk capacity. Bio does not indicate pre-clerk career or education; no additional biographical information was located in Ballotpedia, local news, or Facebook.