Access Jessamine County Circuit Clerk Records

Jessamine County Circuit Court Clerk

The Kentucky Court of Justice Jessamine County page identifies Doug Fain as Circuit Court Clerk. His office is at the Jessamine County Court Complex, 107 N. Main St., Nicholasville, KY 40356. Circuit phone numbers are 859-885-4531 and 859-887-1005. District Court phone is 859-887-1005. Fax is 859-887-0425. Hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Payment options listed by KCOJ include cash, certified check, money order, credit cards, and debit cards with fee. Cards are not accepted for bonds, and ePay is linked for online payments.

The Circuit Court Clerk has custody and storage duties for Circuit and District court records in Jessamine County. That includes Circuit Court, Family Court, District Court, and related local case files. The statewide Request Court Records page says AOC does not maintain local case records and cannot provide access to them. Requests begin with the clerk of the court that heard the case.

Jessamine Circuit Clerk vs County Clerk

Jessamine County has a split that matters for record requests. The Circuit Court Clerk is the primary court-record clerk. The County Clerk, Johnny Collier, is a separate office at 101 N Main St. in Nicholasville with a Wilmore office at 210 S Lexington Ave. The County Clerk handles marriage licenses, land records, wills as recorded or indexed instruments, vehicle records, elections, and County Clerk open-records requests. A court case file should not be requested from the County Clerk unless the user is actually looking for a recorded instrument related to the case.

The local research shows many users confuse these two offices. The Jessamine County government County Clerk page identifies the non-court clerk office.

That page helps separate County Clerk recording and licensing services from Circuit Court Clerk case-record services.

The official Jessamine County Clerk site shows marriage, land-record, vehicle, election, and records menus.

Use that County Clerk site for non-court county records, but use the Circuit Court Clerk for Circuit, Family, District, and Business Court files.

Jessamine Clerk Court Records

The Jessamine County Circuit Court Clerk records role covers public counter access, copies, certified copies, older-file location help, case number questions, and requests for records that are not available online. KCOJ research says older records may be stored in the clerk's office, at a record facility, or destroyed under retention schedules. If a file is at the State Records Center, the clerk must provide case and file locator numbers before the center can process a request.

• Circuit Court files such as felonies, higher civil cases, divorce, family matters, contested probate, injunctions, and appeals from District Court.
• Family Court records, with restrictions for adoption, juvenile, domestic violence, and protected personal information.
• District Court files such as traffic, misdemeanors, violations, ordinances, probate of wills, small claims, lower civil cases, juvenile matters, and mental-health commitments.
• Official copy and certification questions when online records are not enough for legal use.
• File-location help for older cases that may be off-site or under retention rules.

Request Certified Court Copies

A certified court copy is different from a search result or docket printout. It is used when the requester needs proof from the official case file. The research did not locate a Jessamine-specific court-copy fee, so the amount should be confirmed with the Circuit Court Clerk before mailing a request or appearing at the counter. Exact processing times were not found in the official local source.

1. Identify the court, case number, party names, and case type if known.
2. Search KYeCourts or the docket portal first if the case number or date is unknown.
3. Call the Circuit Court Clerk at 859-885-4531 or 859-887-1005 to confirm the file location and copy rules.
4. Ask whether the file is in the clerk's office, at a record facility, or unavailable under retention rules.
5. Pay the required copy or certification charge using an accepted payment method confirmed by the clerk.

Jessamine Records Request Fields

No Jessamine Circuit Court Clerk court-copy request form field inventory was captured in the research. The statewide KCOJ guidance still gives the practical data set a requester should provide. More detail helps the clerk find the correct case and avoid mixing court records with County Clerk land, marriage, or will indexes.

CourtNet Dockets and Clerk Access

The Circuit Court Clerk is the official copy and file-location source, but online systems can help before a counter request. KYeCourts Public Court Records provides free public case information after the guest acknowledgement. KCOJ dockets provide hearing schedules by county, division, date, courtroom, and subdivision. CourtNet 2.0 is registered access for Kentucky criminal and civil cases.

County Clerk Fees Are Separate

The required fee schedule for this clerk page is limited by the research. No Jessamine Circuit Court Clerk copy or certification fee table was located in the official local source. The researched fee table belongs to the County Clerk's recording office, which is separate from the court clerk. Those fees are still useful when the user needs recorded wills, deeds, liens, or other County Clerk records rather than a court case file.

The Jessamine County Clerk recording fees page lists standard recording charges.

Those fees should not be copied onto court-case requests unless the Circuit Court Clerk confirms a matching court fee.

Jessamine County eCCLIX Records

eCCLIX is a County Clerk land and instrument database, not a Circuit Court Clerk case database. The County Clerk recordings page says most document images are available in office and online for most instrument filings from January 2004 to current date, with some records dating back to the 1700s. Deeds and mortgages are indexed and scanned back to 6/30/1966, marriages are indexed and scanned back to 1798, and wills are indexed back to 6/30/1966.

The eCCLIX database page is relevant because many clerk-record searches move there after the user realizes they need a recorded instrument instead of a court case.

For court pleadings, judgments, criminal files, traffic cases, or divorce decrees, return to the Circuit Court Clerk rather than eCCLIX.

Jessamine Clerk Office Context

The research file also flagged a March 2026 local news item about the County Attorney transition. That item is not a court-record custodian source, but it explains why official county pages may lag for officeholder names. For the Circuit Court Clerk, the official KCOJ Jessamine page is the source used here. For County Clerk records, use the current Jessamine County Clerk site and county government pages.

The Jessamine Journal County Attorney transition item is included only as local context, not as the official court-record custodian source.

Because it is a news source rather than the court clerk's own source, official court and clerk pages should control record-request instructions.