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Jerry Deere
District Clerk
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The District Clerk's office is the registrar,
recorder, and custodian of all pleadings,
instrument, and papers that are part of any
cause of action in any District Court in
Brazoria County. In addition to judicial
responsibilities, the District Clerk indexes
and secures all court records, collects filing
fees, handles funds held in litigation and
monies awarded to minors. Trust Funds
currently managed, invested, and monitored by
the District Clerk are approaching 14 million
dollars.
This office is
established by the Texas Constitution.
Jerry Deere the current District Clerk is the
20th person to hold the office for Brazoria
County since 1837.
Modern methods
and the use of technology to facilitate an
ever-expanding office has been the emphasis of
the District Clerk's office for the past few
years. Using technology to enhance the
services provided by the office, optical
imaging has become the primary method of
archival of records. Looking to the
future, this change will facilitate the use of
the Internet to offer new opportunities to
provide services to the legal community and
the general public.
As the
population of Brazoria County continues to
grow, so naturally does the volume of matters
handled by the District Courts. While
the new cases filed in Brazoria County
District Courts now approaches 8,000 each
year, many of the court records of which the
District Clerk's office has custody are
classified as permanent records by law.
The District Clerk must continue to maintain
these "disposed of" records
forever. District Court records for
which the District Clerk maintains go back as
far as 1832 when Texas was a possession of
Mexico. It is not unusual for the
District Clerk's office to be asked to locate
and reproduce copies of records from 100 years
ago.
The tradition
of the District Clerk's Office over the years is
maintained today ... "We serve."
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Nate Moore
Chief Deputy District Clerk
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