{"campaigns":[{"candidatename":"Chassity Harris","chatgptsummary":null,"notes":null,"party":"I","person":{"biography":null,"firstname":"Chassity","lastname":"Harris","middlename":null,"suffix":null,"token":"Rygn2QAOMD"},"token":"chassity_harris"},{"candidatename":"Donna Lowe Spaulding","chatgptsummary":"Donna Lowe Spaulding's twenty-year tenure as a deputy and chief deputy in the Coffee County Clerk's office demonstrates direct familiarity with high-volume motor-vehicle operations, marriage licenses, and business-tax registrations. Her long service suggests established working knowledge of relevant Tennessee statutes and financial controls for fee collection. The biography contains no record of disciplinary action or public controversy. Bio does not indicate prior experience as an elected official or specific experience managing large-scale technology transitions.","notes":null,"party":"R","person":{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\nDonna Lowe Spaulding is the Republican nominee for Coffee County Clerk in the August 6, 2026 county general election, where she faces independent Chassity Harris [3]. She won the May 2026 Republican primary, receiving 3,541 votes to Jenna Amacher's 2,435 [2].\n\n## Career\nSpaulding has more than 20 years of experience as a deputy clerk in the Coffee County Clerk's office and became Chief Deputy in 2021 [1].\n\n## Sources\n[1] [Spaulding announces for county clerk \u2014 Tullahoma News](https://www.tullahomanews.com/news/spaulding-announces-for-county-clerk/article_081cf9f5-45c8-4571-9c67-131403d17668.html) \u2014 accessed 2026-07-22\n[2] [Coffee County May Primary Election Results Are In \u2014 Thunder Radio](https://thunder1320.com/coffee-county-may-primary-election-results-are-in/) \u2014 accessed 2026-07-22\n[3] [Coffee County Official Sample Ballot, August 6, 2026](https://coffeecountytn.gov/DocumentCenter/View/6811/August-6-2026-Republican-Ballot) \u2014 accessed 2026-07-22","firstname":"Donna","lastname":"Spaulding","middlename":"Lowe","suffix":null,"token":"jIo7pLazjj"},"token":"donna_lowe_spaulding"}],"choices":null,"description":null,"district":null,"districtgroup":null,"districtgroupname":null,"districtname":null,"job_type":"county_clerk","o.office":null,"office":"county_clerk","officedescription":"The county clerk handles a broad set of public transactions and records: marriage and business licenses, motor-vehicle titling and registration, notary commissions, and the official minutes of the county commission. It is a high-volume administrative and records office.","officequalities":"- Administration of motor-vehicle registration, license plates, marriage licenses, and business-tax registrations \u2014 a high-volume, public-facing operation.\n- Working knowledge of the Tennessee statutes governing each of those functions, which change regularly.\n- Customer-service capacity: the clerk's office is one of the most-visited county offices by ordinary residents.\n- Financial controls for collecting state and local fees and remitting them accurately.\n- Supervision of office staff handling high transaction volume, and technology and process management as more services move online.","officeterm":4,"officetitle":"County Clerk","partisan":1,"pgr":"general","quantity":1,"referendum":null,"source":{"retrieved_at":"2026-07-19","title":"coffee County, TN \u2014 August 6, 2026 Sample Ballot","url":"https://www.coffeecountytn.gov/DocumentCenter/View/6967/August-6-2026-General-Ballot"},"title":"County Clerk"}