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Contest for Register of Deeds
County
general - Partisan - Shelby County Register of Deeds
About this office
The duty of the Register of Deeds Office is to record and preserve all instruments meeting the minimum Tennessee State law requirements for recording. Some records filed in our office are Warranty Deeds, Mortgages, Quit Claims, Court Decrees, Mortgage Assignments, Affidavit of Heirships, Liens, and Military Discharges. Once recorded and scanned, these documents are available for public inspection on the Shelby County Register of Deeds website at https://register.shelby.tn.us
Term length: 4 years.
This role calls for
- Records management of deeds, mortgages, liens, plats, and other instruments affecting title to land in a high-volume metropolitan county.
- Working knowledge of Tennessee recording statutes, the recording-tax schedule, and the increasingly-electronic submission workflow used by title companies, lenders, and attorneys.
- Accuracy and indexing discipline — an error in the register's records can cloud title for years.
- Public-access service: the records are open, and the office serves both professional users (title, legal, financial) and individual property owners.
- Budget and technology literacy for maintaining a searchable, modern record system.
Derived from the office's statutory duties and operational reality. Candidate summaries below map each candidate's documented experience to these requirements.
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