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Mississippi County Circuit Clerk Office

Christina Turner is the Mississippi County Circuit Clerk for the Missouri 33rd Judicial Circuit Court division. The official Circuit Clerk page says she was elected in November 2022 and took office January 1, 2023. The position is elected countywide for a four-year term. The office is the keeper of complete and accurate court records and is responsible for judgments, rules, orders, collections, accounting, disbursements, the court seal, and office property.

The Circuit Clerk office is located at the Mississippi County Courthouse, 200 N. Main St., 2nd Floor, Charleston, MO 63834. The page lists phone (573) 683-2146 option 1, direct phone (573) 683-2161, fax (573) 683-7696, email christina.turner@courts.mo.gov, and office hours Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. The county-wide main phone is also (573) 683-2146.

The image from the Circuit Clerk source shows the local clerk office, fee links, and contact block for Mississippi County court records.

That source anchors the clerk page because it names the record custodian and lists the official court-record duties.

Mississippi County Circuit Clerk Duties

The Circuit Clerk handles court records, not every county record. Missouri does not use a Texas-style district clerk and county clerk split for trial-court files. Mississippi County court records are centered in the Circuit Clerk, county-government records sit with the County Clerk, and land and marriage records sit with the Recorder of Deeds. That distinction prevents a common request problem: sending a divorce decree to the Recorder, or a marriage-copy request to the Circuit Clerk.

• Receive, process, and maintain judgments, rules, orders, and other court proceedings.
• Maintain complete and accurate court records for the local Circuit Court division.
• Collect, account for, and disburse money paid into court.
• Preserve the court seal and court office property.
• Assist with certain genealogical searches where the office says those searches are available.

The clerk's genealogical-search description is specific. It includes criminal records but excludes traffic and misdemeanors; civil records but excludes order of protection, small claims, landlord-tenant issues, and judgments less than $25,000; and it includes dissolutions, name changes, juvenile, adoptions, financial, paternity, child support, and immigration records. That list should not be read as a promise that each file is open to every requester.

Request Mississippi County Certified Copies

Certified court copies are requested through the Circuit Clerk when the document comes from a Mississippi County Circuit Court case. Examples include a divorce decree, criminal judgment, civil judgment, probate order, name-change order, or other court order. The clerk can also explain whether a document is available from Case.net, whether it must be pulled from an older file, and whether the request involves restricted or confidential material.

1. Find the case number in Case.net if possible, or gather party names, case type, and approximate filing year.
2. Contact the Circuit Clerk by phone, mail, email, or in person to confirm the document name and copy status.
3. Ask for the current copy and certification cost before sending payment, since copy fees were not listed in the extracted fee table.
4. State whether the copy must be certified, plain, mailed, picked up, or used for another agency.
5. Use the confidential-record inspection form if the file is sealed, restricted, juvenile, adoption-related, or otherwise not open through routine public access.

For public case lookup before a copy request, Missouri Case.net is the statewide search path for many circuit, associate circuit, probate, family, civil, criminal, traffic, and municipal division cases.

Mississippi County Records Request Fields

The research did not provide a separate extractable Circuit Clerk copy-request form. For clerk copy work, the useful fields are the details the office needs to identify the file and produce the right document. If a request involves confidential records, the Circuit Clerk page links an Application to Inspect Confidential Court Records, and that process may require the requester to show a lawful basis for access.

The clerk's office remains the fallback when Case.net does not show an older document, a full image, or a record that requires clerk review. A public online docket and a certified clerk copy serve different purposes.

Mississippi County Circuit Clerk Fees

The official Circuit Clerk page lists court filing and service fees. Those fees help identify which office handles a case type and why a caller may hear different terms such as Circuit Division, Associate Division, domestic, small claims, and garnishment. The research did not locate plain-copy or certified-copy amounts in the visible fee excerpt, so those should be confirmed before ordering.

Note: Copy and certification fees were not found in the official research excerpt, so they should be verified with the Circuit Clerk.

County Clerk and Recorder Difference

Mississippi County has other record offices in the courthouse, and their roles should not be merged with the Circuit Clerk. The County Clerk page names Emily K. Pullen and describes county-government records, elections, budgets, floodplain permits, E-911 addressing, liquor licenses, notary commissions, and county commission permanent records dating to 1845. Those are not trial-court case files.

The Recorder of Deeds page names George Bays and covers deeds, mortgages, mechanics liens, releases, plats, grantor-grantee indexes, tract indexes, plat maps, marriage licenses, certified marriage copies, DD214 filing, Laredo, automated data subscriptions, passport acceptance, notary service, and property-fraud alerts. The Recorder and Circuit Clerk offices were separated by County Commission action in 2001, making Recorder a separate elected office.

The image from the Mississippi County services directory helps show why court-record, county-record, and Recorder requests must be routed to the right office.

The directory context supports the access-channel split between Circuit Clerk, County Clerk, Recorder, Sheriff, and other county offices.

The image from the County Clerk source is useful because it shows the non-court side of Mississippi County public records.

That distinction keeps Circuit Clerk requests focused on case files, court copies, filings, and court-record access.

Mississippi County Clerk Online Filings

The Circuit Clerk page states that as of June 3, 2013, all cases must be e-filed. That point matters for attorneys and frequent filers because many new filings and case documents move through the electronic filing process rather than a simple paper drop-off. Public users, self-represented parties, and copy requesters should still contact the Circuit Clerk when they need help with records not visible online, copies, older case files, confidential inspection, or fee questions.

Case.net is the online lookup channel, but it is not a replacement for the clerk's certified copy role. Court records may show a case number, parties, court, docket entries, scheduled hearings, and case status when public. Certified documents, older images, sealed-file questions, and formal court filings remain clerk-office issues. For the court that produces those records, see the Mississippi County Circuit Court page.