{"county":"cumberland","description":"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 \u2014 roughly 650,000 per year \u2014 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.","district":null,"districtgroup":null,"id":1544,"key":"county_clerk","lastchangeby":1,"name":null,"next_election":null,"notes":null,"officegroup":null,"partisan":1,"party":null,"qualities":"- Administration of motor-vehicle registration, license plates, marriage licenses, and business-tax registrations for roughly 910,000 residents \u2014 a high-volume operation across a main office and satellite locations.\n- Working knowledge of 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 a multi-location office staff handling high transaction volume; technology and process management as more services move online.","quantity":1,"source":"{\"seed\": \"tn_standard_offices\", \"authority\": \"TN Constitution Art. VII; TN CTAS county-government structure\"}","state":"TN","term_end":null,"term_start":null,"term_years":4,"terms":[{"current":null,"description":null,"electiondate":null,"name":"Julius Bryson","person":{"firstname":"Julius","lastname":"Bryson","token":"PZP9dbbZXq"},"term_end":null,"term_start":"2026-08-01"}],"title":"County Clerk","type":"executive","url":null,"whenchanged":"2026-08-01 15:58:10"}