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- A court clerk is an officer of the court whose responsibilities include maintaining the records of a court.
- Another duty is to swear in witnesses, jurors, and grand jurors. Traditionally, the clerk also was the custodian of the court's seal, which is used to authenticate copies of the court's orders, judgments and other records.
- In common law jurisdictions, the existence of the office of a clerk is one of the typical criteria distinguishing a court of record.
- He may be more precisely titled after the (type of) court, e.g. clerk of the peace attending to a justice of the peace, clerk of the police court, etc. On Guernsey, the medieval French term Grieffe is used (in the Magistrate's court).
- In some jurisdictions, the court clerk is the one who reads the jury's verdict form to the court.
