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To the Editor:
As a retired employee if the Mifflin County Court of the Common Pleas. I confidently write this letter in support of Ms. Tammy Stuck for the dual position of Prothonotary/Clerk of Court for Mifflin County.
As you may or may not know, in many counties across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Office of Prothonotary (civil and juvenile dependency side of court) and Office of Clerk of Court (criminal and Juvenile delinquency side of court) are two separate offices each staffed with a full-time elected person.
Thus far, Tammy has worked in the Office of Prothonotary/Clerk if Court for 27 years and has filled this dual position as your Prothonotary/Clerk of Court since 2012.
For 26 of those 27 years, I had the privilege of working with Tammy during her tenure in this court-related office.
The responsibilities of this office are vast and varied. She not only would show up for work on time, but she quite often arrived an hour or so earlier to endure the office ran as smoothly as possible.
I know this because she and I would end up accidentally meeting in the parking lot and be walking into our respective offices together prior to 7 a.m. Likewise, she often worked through her designated lunch time.
Both are notable because of her personal sacrifice of arriving early and working through a lunch period pretty much on a daily basis with no additional financial compensation.
For those who may not be aware, in a nutshell, the Prothonotary/Clerk of Court is the keeper of all the Court of Common Pleas' civil, criminal, juvenile dependency and juvenile delinquency records. The Prothonotary/Clerk of Court is instrumental in the jury selection process.
The Prothonotary side of this office is responsible for filing divorce and custody complaints, mortgage foreclosures, protection from abuse actions and many other complaints, petitions and motions too numerous to mention and is also responsible for filing and distributions of all civil and juvenile dependency court orders. The Prothonotary collects civil filings fees and costs associated with all civil actions and court-ordered psychological evaluations and other costs as may be imposed by the Judge.
The Prothonotary is given court orders authorizing the issuance of civil bench warrants.
The Clerk of Court side of this office is responsible for filing new criminal court cases transferred from the Magisterial District Judges and all pleadings associated with criminal matters and juvenile delinquency matters and is responsible for posting bail in criminal matters for the Court of Common Pleas.
The Clerk of Court is given orders authorizing issuance of criminal bench warrants.
The Clerk of Court is also responsible for the collection of criminal fines, costs and restitution as imposed by the judge.
In closing, Tammy's integrity is above reproach. She is experienced and she is the most-qualified candidate for this position.
Please join me in support of Ms. Tammy Stuck for Prothonotary/Clerk of Court for the County of Mifflin.
– Melissa K. Fultz