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SMITH COUNTY \u2014 The Smith County Council of Judges has accepted the resignation of district clerk Penny Clarkston and has appointed her successor. Clarkson formally resigned from her position on Tuesday, citing personal family reasons. Following Clarkson\u2019s resignation, it was announced that paralegal Gaye Boynton has been appointed to complete Clarkson\u2019s term, which runs through the end of the year.<\/p>\n
Boynton recently defeated Clarkston in the March Republican primary election and is currently running unopposed in the general election this November.<\/p>\n
Prior to running for local office, Boynton served in several leadership positions, including as President of the Tyler Area Association of Legal Professionals (TAALP), and had more than 10 years of experience in the Women\u2019s Ministry at Green Acres Baptist Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SMITH COUNTY \u2014 The Smith County Council of Judges has accepted the resignation of district clerk Penny Clarkston and has appointed her successor. Clarkson formally resigned from her position on Tuesday, citing personal family reasons. Following Clarkson\u2019s resignation, it was announced that paralegal Gaye Boynton has been appointed to complete Clarkson\u2019s term, which runs through … Continue reading New District Clerk appointed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1491400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/03\/2026-03-26_011831-199x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 16:21:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/03\/2026-03-26_011831-199x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1491157"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492137,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491157\/revisions\/1492137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1491400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1491157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1491157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1491157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}