About the St. Helena Parish Clerk of Court
The St. Helena Parish clerk works from a single office in the parish courthouse in Greensburg; no branch office was found on the clerk's website. The Census counted 10,923 people in its 2020 base and 10,857 in its July 2024 estimate, spread across about 408 square miles of land and barely a square mile of water. The parish was created in 1810. It once covered more ground. According to the Livingston Parish clerk, Livingston was carved out of St. Helena in 1832, and the Tangipahoa Parish clerk says part of St. Helena went into the new Tangipahoa Parish in 1869.
Jeremy Williams (Jeremy M. Williams on the clerk's website) is Clerk of Court; the Louisiana Clerks of Court Association dates his tenure to July 2024 and lists Denise Godfrey as chief deputy. Under the state constitution he was elected to a four-year term as clerk of the district court, and by virtue of the office he is also a notary public and the recorder of conveyances, mortgages, and other acts for the parish. The clerk's site describes the remaining duties: chief election officer and custodian of the voting machines. It also notes that the office is funded by fees and receives no taxpayer money.
Election work is a regular part of the office. Local and municipal candidates qualify with the clerk of the parish where they are registered to vote, and the clerk sits on the parish board of election supervisors along with the registrar of voters.
The Louisiana Clerks of Court directory covers all 64 parishes.
Court records in St. Helena Parish
St. Helena's suit records belong to the 21st Judicial District Court, and the clerk keeps them in Greensburg. Much of the court-facing information, though, lives on the district court's website rather than the clerk's. The clerk's home page sends visitors to the 21st JDC for jury duty, court calendars, information about the judges, and ticket payment, and it links outside resources for divorce forms and expungements.
Electronic filing has replaced paper by fax. The clerk's home page carries a notice that, under R.S. 13:850 as amended by Act 694 of 2024, the office no longer accepts fax filings as of January 1, 2026. Civil and criminal e-filing runs through Clerk Connect, and the clerk posts a quick start guide for it.
Online searching runs through eClerks LA, which the clerk's Online Resources page labels the "LCRAA Portal" and describes as the place to research mortgage and conveyance, civil, and marriage records. That page does not mention criminal records, and eClerks LA does not describe a statewide criminal search, so plan to ask the clerk's staff for criminal case files. In Louisiana, a custodian must present a record that is immediately available right away, and when the record is in use the custodian must say so in writing and set a time within three business days.
The clerk's home page links outside resources on expungement. Under the Code of Criminal Procedure, when an expungement motion is filed, the clerk serves notice of it on the district attorney, the State Police criminal records bureau, and the arresting agency, and an agency that is served may object within sixty days. The statewide guides to criminal records and court records in Louisiana have more detail.
Land, mortgage, and property records
As ex officio recorder, the clerk records mortgages, deeds, and other instruments for the whole parish. E-recording of mortgage and conveyance records runs through eClerks LA, which also offers the clerk's "Monitor Land Records" link: eClerks Alert, a free notice when something is recorded under a name you choose. For document images, eClerks LA generally requires a paid parish subscription even though its statewide index search is free.
Five neighbors surround St. Helena: four Louisiana parishes (East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, and Tangipahoa) and Amite County, Mississippi. Louisiana's Civil Code places the record of a sale or mortgage in the parish where the immovable is located. A tract that runs over the Tangipahoa line is recorded in part with the Tangipahoa Parish Clerk of Court in Amite, and land shared with Livingston is also on file with the Livingston Parish Clerk of Court. Along the remaining Louisiana lines, the East Feliciana Parish Clerk of Court and the East Baton Rouge clerk keep their own books. Amite County is not a Louisiana parish at all, so no Louisiana clerk records land there.
History buffs may notice that the Greensburg Land Office, a building on Courthouse Square, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, together with the Old St. Helena Parish Jail. Today's land records are with the clerk, not in that historic building. The property records guide explains how the recording system works.
Marriage licenses and family records
The St. Helena clerk accepts marriage applications at its Greensburg office, and its marriage page (viewed October 2026) asks applicants to arrive by 3:00 p.m. The fee is $45.50, which includes a certified copy of the recorded license. One party may present all of the required documents for both.
According to the clerk, the license has to be purchased at least 24 hours before the ceremony and expires 30 days after it is issued, both of which follow state law. Louisiana allows a license to be issued in any parish, so couples marrying in St. Helena can buy one elsewhere and the reverse is also true. Applicants generally need a certified birth certificate (a Louisiana short-form card is accepted) and a current photo ID or passport, and minors under sixteen cannot be issued a license at all.
Vital records are a separate counter. The clerk issues Louisiana birth certificates, birth cards, and death certificates for deaths registered from July 9, 2012, between 8:30 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Posted fees in October 2026 were $34.00 for a birth certificate, $48.00 for a birth certificate and card sold as a pair, and $26.00 for a death certificate. The clerk's site says it cannot help with replacing a Social Security card.
Divorce judgments granted in the 21st Judicial District Court for St. Helena are kept by this clerk, and a certified copy comes from here rather than from Vital Records. See the guides to marriage records and divorce records.
Courts that serve St. Helena Parish
The 21st Judicial District Court serves St. Helena together with Livingston and Tangipahoa. According to the court's website, the judges' chambers are on the second floor of each parish courthouse, including the St. Helena courthouse at 369 Sitman Street in Greensburg. The court lists a Greensburg phone of (225) 222-6492 and a mailing address of P.O. Box 788 in Amite. Its programs include adult and juvenile drug courts, a Veterans Treatment Court, and misdemeanor probation, and the court site lists elected judges in Divisions A through F and I through L, plus two hearing officers, across the district.
No city court or parish court was found in St. Helena. Since the parish has no special juvenile court, the Children's Code gives the district court original jurisdiction over its juvenile cases.
Appeals go to the Court of Appeal, First Circuit in Baton Rouge, the same circuit that hears appeals from Livingston and Tangipahoa.
Visiting the St. Helena Parish courthouse
The clerk's office is Suite 101 in the St. Helena Parish Courthouse at 369 Sitman Street, Greensburg. The clerk's website lists hours of Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Keep the earlier cutoffs in mind: marriage applicants should arrive by 3:00 p.m., and vital records are issued only until 3:00 p.m.
Mail for the clerk goes to P.O. Box 308, Greensburg, LA 70441. The clerk's website does not publish an email address for the clerk, and it does not describe parking or courthouse security, so call the main number if you have questions before you travel. The assessor's office is nearby on the same street, at 351 Sitman Street.
The judges' chambers on the second floor belong to the district court, which has its own phone line; filings and records are handled by the clerk's staff in Suite 101.
Other St. Helena Parish offices
The Louisiana Sheriffs' Association lists Clay Chutz as Sheriff of St. Helena Parish, with an office at 19 N. First Street in Greensburg (LSA directory entry). Like every Louisiana sheriff outside Orleans, the sheriff collects state and parish property taxes in addition to running the jail and serving court papers. See the sheriff's offices guide.
Gloria Tanner is the assessor, according to the Louisiana Assessors' Association. The clerk's page about the assessor's office lists 351 Sitman Street and hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on weekdays. No working assessor website was found. The tax assessors guide explains assessments and appeals.
The St. Helena Parish Police Jury governs the parish; its "Our President" page is signed by Quanika H. Muse, President.