Smith County Clerk’s Office Receives 5 Star Vital Statistics Honor

TYLER — County Clerk Karen Phillips announced in Commissioners Court this past week that her office is among the seven percent of counties across the State of Texas that will receive a 5-Star Exemplary Award for their Vital Statistics Departments, The award will be presented at the 57th Texas Vital Statistics Annual Conference in Austin this year. Only seventeen of Texas’ 254 Counties in the State have obtained this mark of distinction. “I could not be more proud of the work my deputy clerks accomplished in such a short amount of time. Our Vital Statistic Office Procedures Manual is a result of ambition, determination and team work,” Phillips said.