History of the Clerk of Courts
Roll Call of Polk County Clerks
The Florida Constitution of 1838 created the Clerk of the Circuit Court as a Public Trustee. On February 8, 1861, the Legislature of the State of Florida established Polk County.
Polk County Clerks
The 1973 Florida Constitution created a unified Clerk of the Circuit Court after abolition of the Clerk of the Criminal Court of Record. Polk County has had Three Clerks of the Circuit Court since 1973:
January 2013 - Present Stacy Butterfield
August 1997 - January 2013 Richard M. Weiss
January 1973 - August 1997 E.D. "Bud" Dixon
The State Legislature created the Criminal Court of Record in 1923. The following served as Clerk of the Criminal Court of Record for Polk County:
January 1969 - January 1973 E.D. "Bud" Dixon
April 1968 - January 1969 Warren O. Williams
January 1953 - February 1968 Robert Jacob Haslett
January 1933 - January 1953 Benjamin Lucian Durrance
October 1925 - January 1933 Loyd Clyde Olive
August 1923 - October 1925 Richard Webb Robnett
The following served as Clerks of the Circuit Court of Polk County as created by the Florida Constitution of 1838:
1965 - January 1973 Paul H. Vaughn
January 1937 - 1965 Daniel Henry Sloan, Jr.
January 1921- January 1937 John Derieux Raulerson
January 1912 - January 1921 James Allison Johnson
1899 - January 1912 Aaron Browning Ferguson
1885 - December 1898 William Hampton Johnson
1881 - January 1885 Stephen Irving Pearce
1877 - 1881 William Baker Varn
March 1873 - 1877 Nathan Snow Blount
January 1869 - March 1873 John Davidson
January 1866 - January 1869 William Baker Varn
January 1863 - January 1866 Jeremiah Madison Hayman
November 1861 - January 1863 Jehu Jacob Blount