Locate Gilmer County Clerk Records

Gilmer County Clerk of Superior Court

The official county page names Amy Johnson as Clerk of Superior and Juvenile Court, Jury Clerk, and Administrator to the Board of Equalization. The GSCCCA Gilmer clerk profile names Amy E. Johnson and lists 2019 as the year elected. The office manages Superior, Juvenile, and Board of Tax Equalization work and is part of Georgia's county-level Superior Court clerk system.

The county page lists the office at 1 Broad Street, Suite 203, Ellijay, GA 30540, with phone 706-635-4462 and email amy.Johnson@gsccca.org. The GSCCCA profile lists 1 Broad Street Suite #102, Ellijay, GA 30540, hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday excluding holidays, phone 706-635-4462, fax 706-635-1462, county code 61, legal organ Times-Courier, and county population 27,456.

The GSCCCA clerk profile is the statewide profile source for the Gilmer County Clerk of Superior Court.

That profile helps confirm office hours, courts managed, fax number, and statewide clerk-system details.

Gilmer County Court Records Managed

The Clerk of Superior Court operates the business of the local Superior and Juvenile Court office, answers to the public, and serves as custodian of criminal, civil, juvenile, jury, and Board of Equalization records. Court duties include processing and managing court records, collecting and disbursing court fees, fines, and costs, and providing access to records that are public.

The office is also the custodian of public land and personal property records. It records deeds, liens, plats, Uniform Commercial Code transactions, and other documents tied to ownership and security rights. It approves notary public appointments and holds military discharge records. Court users seeking Board of Commissioners records, contracts, ordinances, resolutions, agendas, or minutes should use the separate Gilmer County County Clerk.

• Civil records: Superior Court complaints, answers, motions, orders, judgments, garnishments, and appeals.
• Criminal records: felony case files, indictments, accusations, pleas, sentencing orders, and disposition entries.
• Juvenile records: delinquency, dependency, supervision, and juvenile traffic matters, often with access limits.
• Domestic records: divorce files, final decrees, custody papers, support orders, and contempt filings.
• Land and lien records: deeds, warranty deeds, plats, liens, surveys, covenants, UCCs, and related filings.

Gilmer County Clerk Staff Roles

The county page publishes staff assignments that help users route requests. Cindy Dotson is listed as Chief Deputy Clerk/Civil Records. Ellen Sablain is listed for Criminal Records. Amber Loera and Breanna Ackerson are listed for Real Estate Records. Abby Padgett is listed for Juvenile Records. Melia Stanley is listed for Financial Records. Amber Loera is also listed for Jury Records and Board of Equalization.

Request Gilmer County Certified Copies

A certified copy is a clerk-authenticated copy that may be needed for legal, agency, title, or court use. The official Gilmer online sources did not publish a local certified-copy fee schedule for court files, so requesters should contact the clerk for the current cost before mailing payment or making a trip. If the document is in GSCCCA eCertification, that portal may support a digital certified-document request.

1. Identify the record type first: Superior Court case, Juvenile Court file, divorce decree, deed, lien, plat, UCC, notary, or BOE record.
2. Gather the case number, party names, filing date, book and page, instrument number, or other index detail if known.
3. Contact the Clerk of Superior Court at 706-635-4462 to confirm access, fee, and whether certification is available.
4. For eCertified land or clerk documents, check GSCCCA eCertification and verify whether the record can be requested there.
5. Pick up, receive, or verify the certified copy using the clerk's or eCertification portal's instructions.

Gilmer County Clerk Request Fields

Gilmer County's general open-records page says county offices process their own requests. For clerk records, a useful request should give enough detail to identify the file and the exact copy needed. Broad requests can trigger research time and may miss the document if the court or land-record type is unclear.

Gilmer County Clerk Fees

County open-records fees are published on the official Gilmer County open-records request page. That page cites O.C.G.A. 50-18-71, states that the first 15 minutes are free, and says search or research time may be charged at the hourly rate of the lowest-paid employee capable of researching the request. Paper copies are listed at $0.10 per page.

The Georgia Attorney General open-government page is the state-level source for the Open Records Act and Open Meetings Act.

That state source helps frame why access can be broad but still subject to lawful fees, redactions, and court-specific limits.

Search Gilmer County Clerk Records Online

Online access depends on the record type. Georgia Courts E-Access lists Gilmer Superior through PeachCourt, but PeachCourt's map says only e-filed documents are available from Gilmer Superior through that system. That means older paper files, sealed files, certified copies, and non-digitized documents still point back to the clerk. GSCCCA covers a different set of clerk records: real estate, UCC, lien, plat, PT-61, notary, certified-search, premium searches, and eCertification.

The GSCCCA search systems can help with land, lien, plat, UCC, and notary searches. eCertification can help request digital certified documents and verify authentication codes. Neither system replaces the local clerk for every Superior Court civil, criminal, divorce, or juvenile file.

County Clerk vs Court Clerk

Gilmer County has a separate County Clerk for Board of Commissioners records. The County Clerk page describes agendas, minutes, contracts, leases, resolutions, ordinances, and records of Board actions. Those are local-government records, not Superior Court case files.

Use that distinction before submitting a request so court records go to the Clerk of Superior Court and commission records go to the County Clerk.

Note: Court-record users should not send Superior Court case requests to the County Clerk unless the request is actually for Board of Commissioners material.