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History of the Clerk of Courts of the Fourth Judicial Circuit Since Statehood
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Butte County

Lawrence County

1.  Unknown (1889)
2.  Douglas Sayer (1890)
3.  S. A. Wheeler (1891-1894)
4.  Thomas B. Rollins (1895-1896)
5.  H. E. Thompson (1897-1898)
6.  J. E. Glassie (1899-1900)
7.  Frank E. Bennett (1901-1902)
8.  William Fried (1903-1906)
9.  S.W. P. Sellers (1907-1922)
10 A. W. Burkholder (1923-1928)
11. Effie A. Ross (1929-1940)
12. Myrtle C. Arnold (1941–1970)
13. Gladys Rothermel (1971-1974)
14. Betty Didier-Beals (1975-1997)
15. Sharon Franke (1997-2003)
16. Tammy Scott (2002-2002)
17. Shawn Sorenson (2003-present)

Corson County

1.  Unknown (1889–1910)
2.  C. S. Watson (1911–1912)
3.  T. A. Finnegan (1913–1932)
4.  Lorenzo G. Miller (1933–1956)
5.  Vernon D. Utter (1957–1974)
6.  Alice J. Bruce (1975-1990)
7.  Shirley A. Jameson (1990-1998)
8.  Rhonda Leins (1998-2006)
9.  Jessie VanLishout (2006-present)

Dewey County

1.  Unknown (1889–1910)
2.  J. J. Holley (1911–1914)
3.  S. M. Smith (1915–1918)
4.  J. Ivan Wilson (1919–1920)
5.  Grant F. Darling (1921–1924)
6.  W.
W. Sparks (1925–1934)
7.  George S. Wright (1935–1948)
8.  Mildred Young (1949-1958)
9.  Bernard J. Kamps (1959-1972)
10. Jean Goldade (1973-1974)
11. Beverly Schlosser (1975-1988)
12. Eileen Lacompte (1989-present)

Harding County

1.  Unknown (1889–1908)
2.  M. A. Keene (1909–1920)
3.  Fred W.
Wilson (1921–1946)
4.  M. E. Whitney (1947–1952)
5.  Sylvia L. Curliss (1953–1972)
6.  Dorothy Schweigert (1973–1986)

7.  Karen Lea Teigen (1987–1989)
8.  Tammy Melum (1989-2000)
9.  Karen Lea Teigen (2000–present)

1.  R. H. Driscoll (1889–1898)
2.  Sol Star (1899–1918)
3.  L. P. Jenkins (1919–1928)
4.  Anne Marie Lawler (1929–1972)
5.  Constance Edstrom (1973-1984)
6.  Kathryn Hall (1985–1988)
7.  Eva Pauline Grove (1989-1989)
8.  Alice J. Bruce (1990-present)

Meade County

1. Max Hoehn (1889-1890)
2. W. A. McMichael (1891-1894)
3. F. S. Durham (1895-1896)

4.
Lyman Lauels (1897-1900)
5. W. A. McMichael (1901-1902)
6.  Frank Burroughs (1903-1906)

7
.  Matt Flavin (1907-1916)
8.  Edgar B. Mumford (1917-1928)
9.  Christine Westgate (1929-1932)
10. C. E. Preston (1933-1934)

11
. Louis L. Kinney (1935-1938)
12. Amos Bovee (1939-1942)
13. Ray Gleason (1943-1946)
14. Paul R. Orth (1947-1968)

15. Carolina F. Brown (1969-1984)

16. Pat Williams (1985-2001)
17. Lane Keil (2001-present)

Perkins County

1.  Unknown (1889-1908)
2.  Archie G. Parker (1909-1912)
3.  H. H. Aldrich (1913-1914)
4.  Charley Hanson (1915-1920)
5.  Victor R. Watson (1921-1928)
6.  C. S. Penor (1929-1936)
7.  Ralph Stowell (1937-1942)
8.  Hollis W. Root (1943-1956)
9.  Margaret H. Root (1957-1972)
10. Ada Grove (1973-1974)
11. Margaret H. Root (1975-1984)
12. Agnes McKinstry (1984-1984)
13. Cheryl Loughlin (1984-1999)
14. Trish Peck (1999-present)

Ziebach County

1.  Unknown (1889-1910)
2.  W. H. Britton (1911-1912)
3.  R. S. Schmanski (1913-1914)
4.  Hugh Walkup (1915-1922)
5.  Edgar Olson (1923-1934)
6.  Alice Vance (1935-1940)
7.  Zelma Zimmerman (1941-1972)
8.  Lucille Fairbanks (1973-1974)
9.  Ann Coleman (1975-1984)

10. Judy Anderson (1985-present)

 

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