{"campaigns":[{"candidatename":"Laquitta Cooper Chambers","chatgptsummary":null,"notes":null,"party":"DEM","person":{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\nLaquitta Cooper Chambers, who appears in county records as Laquitta Green Cooper, is the incumbent Northampton County Clerk of Superior Court, running for re-election as a Democrat. She filed her candidacy on December 1, 2025.\n\n## Career\nChambers serves as Northampton County's Clerk of Superior Court, overseeing court records and judicial administration. In April 2024 she participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly constructed Northampton County Courthouse at 128 East Jefferson Street in Jackson.\n\n## Sources\n- [1] [Laquitta G. Cooper for Northampton County Clerk of Superior Court \u2013 Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/p/Laquitta-G-Cooper-for-Northampton-County-Clerk-of-Superior-Court-100058183653163/)\n- [2] [New courthouse open for dispatch of business in Northampton \u2013 RRSpin](https://rrspin.com/news/8568-new-courthouse-open-for-dispatch-of-business-in-northampton.html)","firstname":"Laquitta","lastname":"Chambers","middlename":"Cooper","suffix":null,"token":"52751e42a36ad27c"},"token":"guC7y6d_Lj787Y2F"}],"choices":null,"description":null,"district":null,"districtgroup":null,"districtgroupname":null,"districtname":null,"job_type":null,"o.office":"clerk_of_superior_court","office":"clerk_of_superior_court","officedescription":"In North Carolina, the clerk of superior court keeps the records of the trial courts and also serves as an ex-officio judge of probate and over estates, guardianships, and certain special proceedings. It is both a records office and a judicial one.","officequalities":"- Records management for the trial courts, in conformity with North Carolina procedure and the orders of the judges.\n- Judicial responsibility over probate, estates, guardianships, and special proceedings \u2014 the clerk decides these matters.\n- Financial controls for collecting and disbursing court costs, fines, estate funds, and trust funds, with public accountability.\n- Supervision of a clerical staff handling high case volume and frequent statutory deadlines.\n- Attention to legal detail and sensitivity with a public often dealing with death or incapacity.\n- Administrative reliability \u2014 the office's filings are legally binding and its records are evidence.","officeterm":4,"officetitle":"Clerk of Superior Court","partisan":1,"pgr":"general","quantity":1,"referendum":null,"source":null,"title":"Northampton County Clerk Of Superior Court"}