2026 Texas General Election

Dyana Limon-Mercado

Dyana Limon-Mercado has an associate's degree from Austin Community College. She is a mother.

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Dyana is the newly elected County Clerk. She previously worked as the executive director of Planned Parenthood Texas Votes. She also served as the chair of the Travis County Democratic Party from 2018 to 2020.

Dyana is currently the Travis County Clerk. She previously served as the chair of the Travis County Democratic Party from 2018 to 2020.

Served on the Equity Advisory Committee for Austin Independent School District, the City of Austin Commission for Women, and the YWCA Greater Austin.

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Served on the Equity Advisory Committee for Austin ISD, City of Austin Commission for Women, and the YWCA Greater Austin.

Administration

- Serves as clerk of county’s commissioners court, attending and recording all sessions, as well as holding all records associated with the Court. Also assists county judge in court agenda preparation and posting notice for each meeting, along with other services requested by the Court.
- Works with judges, defendants, jurors, and attorneys of various courts, doing things like filing cases, issuing processes, maintaining minutes of court proceedings, collecting costs and fines, and arranging for commitments and appeals.
Administers all county and state elections as chief elections officer, except when the Commissioners Court has the tax assessor-collector or county elections administrator do that.
- Can serve as county recorder, where they determine whether a document is suitable for filing.They maintain documents like birth, death, and marriage certificates and real estate records, and act as a liaison to the Vital Statistics Section of the Texas Department of State Health Services.
- County clerks are elected through partisan, county-wide elections to four-year terms. Candidates must be a U.S. citizen, at least 18 years old, have been a Texas resident for at least 12 consecutive months, a county resident for at least six consecutive months, and registered to vote in that county.
- The annual salary for county clerks range from $42,000 to $183,999, set by the county’s commissioners court.

Serves as clerk of county court and commissioners court.