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Contest for County Clerk
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About this office
The Shelby County Clerk's office is the busiest transactional office in county government. Its most visible function is the sale of motor-vehicle license plates — roughly 650,000 per year — but the Clerk also issues marriage licenses and disabled placards, and handles business-tax registrations. The County Clerk is a separate elected office from the Register of Deeds. The office is governed by state law and the position is 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 for roughly 910,000 residents — a high-volume operation across a main office and satellite locations.
- 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 multi-location office staff handling high transaction volume; technology and process management as more services move online.
Derived from the office's statutory duties and operational reality. Candidate summaries below map each candidate's documented experience to these requirements.
Campaigns
Tina Montgomery
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Tina Montgomery is the Republican candidate for Shelby County Clerk on the August 6, 2026 ballot. Her professional background per public sources is in accounting, with more than thirty years of experience described as focused on financial integrity and operational excellence. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Memphis. She founded Benevout Community Service Corp, a nonprofit providing affordable housing for Shelby County's working homeless, and serves as Chair of Membership Outreach for the Shelby County Republican Women's Club. Bio does not indicate prior elected experience or public-sector administrative leadership.
LaSonya Hall
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LaSonya Hall has been Deputy Chief Administrative Officer for Shelby County Government since October 2018 — a senior administrative role over county operations. Prior positions include Deputy Director of Parks and Neighborhoods at the City of Memphis (2010–2016), where she managed budgets and staff across more than ten city divisions, and Deputy Director and Policy Analyst at the City of Memphis (2003–2009), where she administered a $26 million Executive Division operating budget and presented it to City Council. She holds a Ph.D. (University of Mississippi), an MPA (UAB), and a BA (Jackson State University).
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