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Wilkes County Clerk Overview

The Wilkes County Clerk of Superior Court is an elected county constitutional officer and the primary record custodian for Superior Court and Juvenile Court records. The Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority profile lists Genna Grimaud as the Wilkes County Clerk of Superior Court, year elected 2021, county code 157, and courts managed as Superior and Juvenile. The same profile adds local court terms, the legal organ, contacts by work area, and the long real-estate record history tied to the courthouse square in Washington.

The clerk's office is more than a counter for copies. It handles court accounting, court fees, criminal fines, mandated surcharges, assessments, money held in the court registry, jury pool duties, civil and criminal filing support, appeals, and record preservation. Probate Court is a separate Wilkes County office for probate, marriage, vital records, weapons-carry, and county traffic matters, so clerk requests should be limited to the records this office actually maintains.

The clerk's record role also affects later state records. The Judicial Division transmits criminal final dispositions to GCIC, traffic citation final dispositions to DDS, civil filing and disposition data to GSCCCA, TPO records to GSCCCA, prisoner packages to GDC, and annual case counts to the Administrative Office of the Courts. Those reporting paths are why a Wilkes Superior Court disposition can matter beyond the courthouse copy counter.

The official Wilkes County clerk page is shown in the county's Clerk of Superior Court source page.

That source confirms the local office name, clerk identity, staff list, courthouse room, phone, fax, and office hours used for Wilkes County clerk record requests.

Wilkes County Clerk Divisions

The clerk's work is organized around Administrative, Judicial, and Real and Personal Property divisions. The county page names Nichole Poss as Chief Deputy Clerk, with Ashley Bufford, Kyle Goldman, and Helen Hackney as deputy clerks. GSCCCA assigns Nichole Poss and Ashley Bufford to Criminal and Juvenile Courts, Kyle Goldman to Real Estate, Liens and UCCs, and Helen Hackney to the Civil Division. That staff routing is useful when a request involves a specific Wilkes County record type rather than a general front-counter question.

• Administrative Division: notary commissions, trade names, military discharge records, oaths, bonds, passport applications, court-registry accounting, and certified copies.
• Judicial Division: civil and criminal filings, calendars, verdicts, subpoenas, summonses, jury records, criminal sentences, dispositions, evidence, appeals, TPO forms, and juvenile records.
• Real and Personal Property Division: deeds, plats, liens, UCC financing statements, indexes, intangible taxes, transfer taxes, and data transmitted to GSCCCA.
• State reporting: final criminal dispositions to GCIC, traffic citation final dispositions to DDS, civil filing and disposition information to GSCCCA, and annual case counts to the Administrative Office of the Courts.

The Administrative Division source page describes certified copies, trade names, military discharge records, notary commissions, passport applications, oaths, bonds, and court funds.

Those administrative duties explain why some Wilkes County clerk records are court case files while others are official records, credentials, or registry-accounting services.

Request Wilkes Certified Copies

Certified copies from the Wilkes County Clerk of Superior Court are used when a person needs an official copy from a record maintained by that office. The research confirms the clerk issues certified copies, but no official Wilkes Superior Court copy-fee schedule was located. That makes the fee question part of the request process, especially for mailed requests or records that need certification, multiple pages, or older-file retrieval.

1. Identify the record type first. Superior Court civil, criminal, divorce, TPO, appeal, and Juvenile clerk records route to Room 301.
2. Gather the case number if known, party names, approximate filing year, document type, and whether the copy must be plain or certified.
3. Call 706-678-2423 before mailing a request to confirm current copy cost, certification cost, payment method, and whether the file is available.
4. Submit the request in person, by mail to Room 301, or by the route the clerk gives for the record type.
5. Confirm pickup, mailing, or delivery timing with the office, especially for older records or files that require judge review, redaction, or retrieval.

Note: Military discharge certified copies are listed as no charge to the veteran, but ordinary court-copy fees were not published in the official Wilkes sources reviewed.

Wilkes Clerk Request Fields

No dedicated Wilkes Superior Court online request form was located in the official source material. A practical clerk request should give the office enough information to route the file without asking for confidential data that is not needed. PeachCourt can support Georgia civil and criminal e-filing or document access when the court and user role permit it, but registration is separate from an ordinary Room 301 copy request.

Wilkes County Clerk Fees

The official Wilkes research found some related local fees, but it did not locate a published Clerk of Superior Court copy-fee schedule for ordinary civil or criminal case copies. The fee table below separates confirmed Wilkes source facts from items that must be confirmed with Room 301 before payment. That distinction matters because the clerk collects court fees and fines, while Probate Court and the Sheriff's Office publish separate fees for different services.

Wilkes Clerk Forms and Duties

The Wilkes County clerk pages describe office duties more than downloadable forms. The Judicial Division is the source for filed civil and criminal records, calendars, verdicts, subpoenas, jury pool work, appeals, juvenile records, TPO forms, criminal sentences, and final dispositions. The Administrative Division handles several non-case services, while the Real and Personal Property Division routes land records through GSCCCA.

• Temporary protective order forms are provided by the Judicial Division, which also schedules hearings with the Superior Court judge.
• Passport applications are transmitted by the Administrative Division after required passport-agent training.
• Notary applications and commissions are handled by the Administrative Division.
• Trade names, military discharges, attorney bar admissions, physician registry records, and oaths are administrative clerk records.
• Real-estate documents are indexed and transmitted to GSCCCA through the Real and Personal Property Division.

The Real and Personal Property Division source page identifies the local division that records deeds, plats, liens, UCCs, and related indexes.

That division is why land-record searches may use the statewide GSCCCA real-estate search even though civil and criminal case-copy requests still route to the clerk's court office.

Wilkes Clerk Online and Mail

Wilkes County does not publish a single free countywide Superior Court case-search portal in the official sources reviewed. For online access, Georgia Courts' e-access court records page points users to provider systems and notes that provider accounts may be required. PeachCourt supports Georgia civil and criminal e-filing or document access when available, while GSCCCA Real Estate Search is the official online path for deeds, plats, liens, UCCs, and related land records.

Mail requests should be addressed to Clerk of Superior Court, 23 Court Street, Room 301, Washington, GA 30673, after the requester confirms the current fee and payment method by phone. In-person requests use the same Room 301 office during posted weekday hours. Formal Georgia Open Records Act requests may apply to agency records, but court case files should still be requested from the court custodian that maintains them.

For older land and courthouse-history research, GSCCCA reports that Wilkes real-estate records date back to 1785. Current civil, criminal, divorce, TPO, and juvenile clerk questions still start with the modern clerk's office, but historical Wilkes County court research may require the clerk, GSCCCA, or Georgia Archives depending on the record age and type.