What does a county clerk do?
If you’ve ever wanted to fill an elected civil service position bursting at the seams with responsibility, then consider working as a county clerk. The county clerk is responsible for filing vital records, or important documents related to a specific county’s population, including birth, death and marriage certificates. Depending on the size of that population, the duties of the job can go a lot further than that. In counties with smaller populations, the clerk wears a number of different hats. It’s one of those rare positions in which the more customers you have, the fewer responsibilities you hold. Let’s take Cook County, Ill., for example. The county that includes Chicago and much of its metropolitan area has an estimated population of nearly 5.3 million people [source:
