The following officials are elected by the voters of Lee County to four year terms.
Board of Commissioners
The Board of Commissioners is the county's governing authority and is responsible for establishing policy for county operations, enacting ordinances and resolutions to promote the county's health, safety, and welfare, and approving the annual budget which funds the operations of the constitutional officers' as well as the departments under the Board's jurisdiction.
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Clerk of Superior Court
Sara Clark
The Clerk of Superior Court is responsible for maintaining court records, recording real estate transactions such as warranty deeds, quit claim deeds, security deeds, assignments, right-of-way deeds, easements, and property plats, recording fi fas, military discharges, trade names, and UCCs (Uniform Commercial Code), collecting probation fines, child support payments, and property transfer taxes, filing criminal cases and maintaining criminal warrants, filing civil cases such as divorces/annulments, adoptions, name changes, habeas corpus cases, suits for damages, garnishments, and repossessions, issuing notary appointments, assisting in jury selection, keeping election ballots for the statutory time limit of two years, and assisting the general public with obtaining various court records.
Coroner
The coroner is responsible for holding inquests into the cause of death where a person dies as a result of violence, suicide, or casualty, suddenly when in apparent good health, when unattended by a physician, or in any suspicious or unusual manner.
Hill Mackey, Coroner
Chief Magistrate Court Judge
Jim Thurman
The Magistrate Court has criminal and civil jurisdictions. The criminal jurisdiction's responsibilities include issuing arrest and search warrants as well as good behavior bonds, conducting first appearance, bond, extradition, committal, and warrant application hearings, presiding over and conducting trials for county ordinance violations, misdemeanor bad check, criminal trespass, alcohol beverage violations involving persons under 21 years of age, shoplifting, and possession of marijuana less than one ounce. The civil jurisdiction's responsibilities include the trial and adjudication of civil claims for $15,000 or less, dispossessory and distress proceedings and garnishments.
Probate Court Judge
Melanie Gahring
The Probate Court is responsible for probating wills, appointing guardians of minors and incompetent persons, issuing marriage licenses, performing marriage ceremonies, recording birth, death, and marriage certificates, collecting county and state traffic fines, and administering estate matters.
Probate CourtCounty Sheriff
The Sheriff's Office is responsible for enforcing all federal, state, and county laws enacted for the protection of the lives, property, health, and welfare of the county citizens. The Sheriff is elected at-large by the voters for four year terms. The Sheriff's Office provides security for all courts, processes court orders, patrols county neighborhoods, and maintains the Neighborhood Watch Program.
Reggie Rachals, Lee County Sheriff
Sheriff's Office
Tax Commissioner
Wendy David
The Tax Commissioner is the official responsible for performing all functions related to billing, collecting, accounting for and disbursing ad valorem taxes collected in this county. The Tax Commissioner also serves as an agent of the State Revenue Commissioner for the registration of motor vehicles. The Tax Commissioner does not set value or the millage rates.