a 'city/town clerk' [=a person whose job is to record what happens at city or town meetings and to keep special information about the city or town]
After graduating from law school, she 'clerked' for a judge for several years.
Have the court 'clerk' file your request with the judge.
(..) In there were hundreds of professors renown... for their study of the universe, but it was a... It was a -year-old Swiss patent clerk... doing physics in his spare time who changed the world. Can you imagine if Einstein would have given that up... just to get drunk with his buddies (..)1997 Good Will Hunting