Access Tunica County Circuit Clerk Records

About the Tunica County Circuit Clerk's Office

Sharon G. Reynolds serves as the Tunica County Circuit Clerk. The office is the administrative arm of the Circuit Court, and county voters elect the clerk to a four-year term. The clerk and her deputy clerks staff the records counter inside the courthouse at 1300 School Street in central Tunica. That building is part of a historic public-building cluster, with a Beaux Arts courthouse built in 1922 and 1923 and an old jail from 1894.

The Circuit Clerk serves both the Circuit Court and the County Court. The office receives and files civil and criminal legal documents, issues summonses and subpoenas, qualifies juries, and records judgments and executions. It also handles marriage licenses, keeps marriage records, records professional licenses, and manages voter registration and elections. Tunica County sits in the Eleventh Circuit Court District, which it shares with Bolivar, Coahoma, and Quitman counties.

The county lists its current elected leaders, including the Circuit Clerk, on the Tunica County elected officials page.

That roster confirms Sharon G. Reynolds as Circuit Clerk, alongside the Sheriff, the Chancery Clerk, and the Justice Court judges who round out the county's record-keeping offices.

What the Tunica County Circuit Clerk Handles

The Circuit Clerk is the official keeper of records for cases heard in Circuit Court. That covers felony criminal prosecutions and the larger civil disputes that fall within circuit jurisdiction. The office also processes the paperwork that moves a case forward, from the first summons to a final judgment, and it manages the jury pool that decides trials.

• Files civil and criminal documents for the Circuit and County Courts
• Issues summonses and subpoenas to parties and witnesses
• Qualifies and summons jurors for trial terms
• Records judgments, executions, garnishments, and abstracts
• Issues marriage licenses and maintains marriage records
• Records professional licenses filed with the county
• Administers voter registration and county elections

The Mississippi Judiciary explains the broader role of the trial court on its state Circuit Courts page.

Circuit Court is the felony and major-civil forum the clerk's records track, which is why criminal and civil filings, juries, and judgments all run through this single office in Tunica.

Circuit Clerk or Chancery Clerk in Tunica County

Mississippi uses two county clerks, and they hold different files. Sending a request to the wrong office is the most common reason a records search stalls. The Circuit Clerk handles Circuit Court matters and marriage licenses. The Chancery Clerk handles Chancery Court, the state's equity court, where divorces, probate, guardianships, conservatorships, and land matters are filed.

For divorce, estate, and equity files, start with the Tunica County Chancery Clerk instead. To understand the cases the Circuit Clerk supports, the Tunica County Circuit Court page breaks down the district and its judges. Marriage licenses, however, always run through the Circuit Clerk, even though the divorce that may follow does not.

Note: A marriage license comes from the Circuit Clerk, but the record of a divorce is filed with the Chancery Clerk, so the two halves of a marriage live in separate offices.

The Tunica County Circuit Clerk Online Order Center

The Circuit Clerk website runs an online order center that works like a small store. Each product is a record service the office offers, and the public can pay for copies, searches, and filings without driving to the courthouse. The order center does not replace a full public case-search portal, but it does let people order documents, run a paid record search, and request certified marriage copies. The fields below show what each product covers.

To run a record search, supply a name, a case number, or any other detail that points to the file. Copies and abstracts are requested by case number, while garnishments and abstracts also need party information. The checkout works through an add-to-cart and payment flow.

How to Request a Certified Copy

A certified copy carries the clerk's official seal, which courts, lenders, and agencies require for legal proof. A plain copy is fine for personal reference, but it is not accepted where a certified version is demanded. The steps below outline the path for a Circuit Court document or a marriage record.

1. Identify the record. Gather the case number or the full names of the parties and the approximate filing or marriage date so the clerk can locate the file.
2. Choose your channel. Use the online order center for marriage copies, plain copies, abstracts, and record searches, or visit the counter at 1300 School Street during office hours.
3. Submit the request with payment. A certified marriage copy is $17 when the date is known, and a date-unknown search adds a $10 fee for a total of $27, with each extra copy at $6.
4. Receive the document. Pick it up at the office or have it mailed to the address you provide at checkout. For questions about timing, call 662-363-2842.

Note: The Circuit Clerk's office cannot give legal advice, so anyone who needs help interpreting a record or filing should contact an attorney.

Tunica County Circuit Clerk Fee Schedule

The Circuit Clerk publishes a posted fee list that covers marriage services, court filings, judgments, copies, and certification. Amounts are set by the office and apply to in-person and online requests alike. The table gathers the full schedule in one place.

Marriage Licenses and Records

Marriage is the one vital-records service that runs through the Circuit Clerk rather than the Chancery Clerk. Both parties must apply in person at the Circuit Clerk's office, and the clerk's marriage page lists the information the couple must bring for the application. Once the marriage is recorded, the office keeps the record and can issue certified copies on request.

The online order center makes copies easy when a couple has moved away or needs a duplicate. A certified copy is $17 when the marriage date is known. When the date is unknown, the request includes a $10 search fee, raising the total to $27, and each additional certified copy is $6. The request workflow walks through four steps: date and copies, details for the first partner, details for the second partner, and contact and payment.

A divorce, by contrast, is not in this file. Divorce decrees are filed in Chancery Court, so certified divorce copies come from chancery channels rather than the Circuit Clerk.

Common Circuit Clerk Forms

The Circuit Clerk posts the forms residents and attorneys use most often. Mississippi law requires a civil cover sheet for each case filed, and the office links a printable version. Other forms cover criminal pleas, trial preparation, marriage, and voter registration.

• Civil Case Filing Form for the civil cover sheet required on each new case
• Petition to Enter a Guilty Plea for criminal plea paperwork
• Pretrial Statement used to prepare a case for trial
• Marriage License Application completed in person by both parties
• Voter Registration Application and a separate cancellation form

The clerk treats these form titles as the verified set on the official forms page. For the exact fields on any printable document, open the form itself, since the office does not publish a separate field list for every PDF.

E-Filing and Case Notifications

Mississippi runs a statewide system called Mississippi Electronic Courts, or MEC, for filing and managing cases in Circuit, Chancery, and County Courts. For Tunica County Circuit Court, voluntary attorney e-filing began on November 25, 2024, and e-filing became mandatory on December 2, 2024. Online access through MEC and the related PAMEC registration is a separate channel that may require an account, so it does not promise free public document downloads. Attorneys register through the Mississippi Electronic Courts portal.

People who want updates on a custody status tied to a criminal case can use the state notification service rather than the clerk's office. The MDOC SAVIN and VINE program sends alerts about an offender's custody and court events, and the MDOC SAVIN and VINE page lists the registration link and phone lines.

Those notifications work alongside the Circuit Clerk's case files, giving victims and the public a way to track movement on a case after the clerk has logged the original filings. For the underlying documents themselves, the clerk's counter, mail, phone, and order center remain the direct routes, and broader county filings appear through Tunica County court records.