Lincoln County Clerk Office
The Kentucky Court of Justice Lincoln County page identifies Angelia Doolin as the Lincoln County Circuit Court Clerk. Her office is the court-record counter for the Lincoln County Judicial Center, where Circuit Court, Family Court, and District Court case records are managed. Kentucky uses a unified Court of Justice, so this clerk role is not limited to one courtroom. The office handles court case filings, docket records, judgments, orders, traffic case files, criminal case files, civil case files, divorce records, probate case records, and other case material created by the local trial courts.
The state court page lists the court location as Lincoln County Judicial Center, 101 East Main Street, Stanford, Kentucky 40484. The office phone is 606-365-2535, fax is 606-365-3389, and email is AngeliaDoolin@kycourts.net. State court hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. A temporary notice says the Office of Circuit Court Clerk is located at 104 Agriculture Way in Stanford beginning June 1 for Judicial Center building repairs, while court schedules and other court business continue at 101 East Main Street. Call first before going in person.
The official court location page is the source for the clerk, judges, address, hours, and temporary filing location.
The image matters because it shows the state court system's own listing for the Lincoln County court office, not a third-party directory.
Office of Circuit Court Clerk
Clerk: Angelia Doolin
101 East Main Street
Stanford, KY 40484
606-365-2535
AngeliaDoolin@kycourts.net
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. per Kentucky Court of Justice
Lincoln County Case Records
Kentucky Court of Justice describes Circuit Court Clerks as the record managers for Circuit, Family, District, and Business Court records. In Lincoln County, that means the Circuit Court Clerk is the first stop when a public case search is not enough. KYeCourts may show public case information, and the docket tool may show future settings, but the official file, certified copy, and older record path still runs through the clerk that heard the case.
The Lincoln County government Circuit Clerk page also lists Angela Doolin at 101 East Main Street with the 606-365-2535 phone number. The county page is useful local confirmation, while the state court page controls for court-system hours and the temporary-location notice.
The clerk's case-record role includes:
- Circuit Court felony, civil, appeal, title, and contested probate case records.
- Family Court divorce, custody, support, paternity, adoption, and domestic-violence case records where public access is allowed.
- District Court misdemeanor, traffic, ordinance, small-claims, probate, juvenile, and mental-health case records.
- Docket entries, hearing notices, orders, judgments, certified copies, and court-cost information.
- Case-location help when a file is onsite, stored at a record facility, restricted, sealed, expunged, or destroyed under retention rules.
Request Lincoln County Copies
Certified copies are used when a court document must prove the contents of the official file. A public online case result is not the same thing. For Lincoln County court records, requesters should identify the court, case number, party names, and document type before contacting the Circuit Court Clerk. If the case number is unknown, start with KYeCourts public case access or the KCOJ docket search, then call the clerk for the copy path.
The Kentucky Court of Justice record request guide says the court clerk that heard the case can advise where the record is located and whether it is available. Some older files may be in a record facility. If a file is available there, the clerk can provide case and file locator numbers for access or copies.
- Search KYeCourts or use a court notice to get the exact case number, court division, party names, and filing year.
- Call the Lincoln County Circuit Court Clerk at 606-365-2535 to confirm whether the file is public, onsite, temporarily handled at 104 Agriculture Way, or stored elsewhere.
- Ask what copy fees, certification fees, and delivery options apply because the research file did not locate a Lincoln-specific court-copy fee sheet.
- Submit the request through the clerk's accepted channel and include the number of copies, certification need, return contact information, and payment instructions provided by the office.
Note: The County Clerk's open-records form does not request court case files from the Circuit Court Clerk.
Lincoln County Request Fields
No Lincoln County court-copy form field list was located in the official source set. The practical request still needs enough detail for the clerk to identify the right file without guessing. Use the court case facts from KYeCourts, a hearing notice, citation, indictment, divorce decree, judgment, or docket entry. Requests for sealed, juvenile, adoption, expunged, mental-health, or protected-address material may be denied or limited by law.
| Field | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Case Number | Strongly preferred | Copy it exactly from KYeCourts, a notice, citation, or order. |
| Party Names | Yes | Use full names and roles, such as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, respondent, Commonwealth, or decedent. |
| Document Type | Yes | Examples include judgment, order, indictment, citation, divorce decree, probate order, or docket sheet. |
| Number of Copies | Yes | State whether each copy must be certified. |
| Contact and Delivery | Yes | Include phone, email or mailing address, and ask whether pickup, mail, fax, or another method is accepted. |
Lincoln County Clerk Boundaries
The County Clerk is a different office. The Lincoln County government County Clerk page and the separate County Clerk site point record seekers toward Nancy Jackson's office for land, marriage, will, motor-vehicle, election, and local open-records services. That distinction is important because County Clerk records do not replace Circuit Court Clerk case records.
The county-government County Clerk contact page is useful when a record search turns out not to be a court case record.
Use that office for land, recorded wills, marriage licenses, and County Clerk open-records requests, not Circuit, Family, or District Court case copies.
| Record Need | Correct Lincoln County Office |
|---|---|
| Circuit, Family, District Court case file | Circuit Court Clerk Angelia Doolin |
| Certified court order, judgment, docket, or divorce decree | Circuit Court Clerk |
| Land records, liens, surveys, recorded wills | County Clerk Nancy Jackson |
| Marriage license records | County Clerk |
| Sheriff, jail, or law-enforcement records | Sheriff, jailer, or the agency that created the record |
Court Search Channels
The Circuit Court Clerk is not the only way to begin a Lincoln County court records search. KYeCourts public case access is the statewide online case-search entry point. The docket search is a separate tool for court-date information. Both are useful, but neither replaces a clerk copy request when a user needs the official court record.
The County Clerk open-records page shows why scope matters. That page says requests must go to the government entity that oversees the requested record and that the County Clerk cannot respond to court-clerk issues.
The County Clerk open-records instructions are helpful for their limits as well as their process.
The follow-up point is simple: court case records start with the Circuit Court Clerk, while County Clerk open-records requests cover records held by that county office.
- KYeCourts guest public case search for public statewide case information.
- KCOJ docket search for future docket information by county, division, date, courtroom, and subdivision.
- Lincoln County court records for broader case-search and access-channel detail.
- Lincoln County Circuit Court for the local trial-court structure.
Mail Online and Filing
Lincoln County court users should separate case search, case filing, and record-copy requests. Public case lookup starts online through KYeCourts after a captcha gate. Future docket checks use the statewide docket page. Filings that are not required to be eFiled may be accepted by the Circuit Court Clerk during the temporary clerk relocation, according to the Kentucky Court of Justice notice. Court hearings remain at the Judicial Center unless a specific court notice says otherwise.
For criminal defendants, the local prosecution and defense offices are separate from the clerk. Lincoln County Attorney Daryl Day is listed at 111 East Main Street for county-attorney matters. Felony prosecutions in the 28th Circuit are handled by Commonwealth's Attorney David Dalton in Somerset. Public defense is through the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy Danville Trial Office for Boyle, Lincoln, and Mercer Counties. Those offices may appear in case records, but copies of filed court documents still come through the court clerk.
The County Clerk open-records screenshot source also shows the office's five-business-day response rule for its own records.
That distinction helps prevent a common filing error: court case copies, dockets, and filed orders belong with the Circuit Court Clerk, while County Clerk requests stay with Nancy Jackson's office.