{"id":155963,"date":"2022-07-13T03:40:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T08:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=155963"},"modified":"2022-07-14T03:47:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T08:47:35","slug":"deputy-clerk-honored-for-50-years-of-service-to-the-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/07\/13\/deputy-clerk-honored-for-50-years-of-service-to-the-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy clerk honored for years of service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She had two job offers on the same day many years ago \u2013 one to be a children\u2019s librarian at Brumback Library and the other to become a deputy clerk at Van Wert County Probate and Juvenile Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynn Simson chose the latter and has stuck with it ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, county officials, courthouse employees and co-workers and others gathered for an open house on Tuesday to congratulate Simson on 50 years of service to the county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lynn Simson (right) chats with fellow employees and well wishers during Tuesday’s open house held in her honor. Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Simson explained she worked for the county auditor one summer during high school then was a senior when she went to work for then-Judge Catherine Harrington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe was one of only two women to graduate with her law class, so she was quite a groundbreaking attorney and then judge,\u201d Simson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her familiarity with Harrington was what swayed Simson to choose Probate and Juvenile Court for employment. According to Court Administrator Suzi Kallas, Simson spends 99 percent of time as a deputy clerk for juvenile court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking back over her time with the county court, Simson noted there have been many changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGoing from handwritten books \u2013 every document that I typed had to also be handwritten into a docket, then it was typed again into a journal, so I actually typed the original entry as well as hand writing it, so I handled the document three times,\u201d Simson explained. \u201cJudge Harrington did not type so I typed her entries for her. Learning to read a judge\u2019s handwriting is challenging, any judge, because I\u2019ve worked for three of them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith the number of cases we have now, I don\u2019t think we could have done it the old way,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She noted there are many more child support and custody cases now than when she started and she said another big change has been court costs.
\u201cA marriage license was $2.15 when I started and now they\u2019re $45,\u201d Simson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While many people don\u2019t care for change, Simson said change is one of her favorite things about the job that she\u2019s held for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something new every time you turn around,\u201d she stated. \u201cWe have to keep up with our training \u2013 some classes are online some are in-person and they help you learn the new way of doing things. We\u2019re moving toward e-citations for traffic now so the officers don\u2019t have actually have to drop off a physical ticket. They\u2019ve been doing that in muni court for awhile now but there\u2019s computers to change and things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simson had nothing but praise for the people she works with, present and past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe people are great,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve worked with some wonderful people, not just from this town but when you go to the deputy clerk convention you make friendships outside of the office and that helps when you have to call to transfer cases. It\u2019s nice to know the people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as retirement, Simson did say it\u2019s something she\u2019s pondered retiring sometime in the next year, but she hasn\u2019t set a date yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m still in relatively good health and I\u2019d like to enjoy a little bit of my retirement,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor She had two job offers on the same day many years ago \u2013 one to be a children\u2019s librarian at Brumback Library and the other to become a deputy clerk at Van Wert County Probate and Juvenile Court. Lynn Simson chose the latter and has stuck with it ever since. On Tuesday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 02:16:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155963"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156002,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155963\/revisions\/156002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}