She was elected as the Travis County Democratic Party Chair from 2018 to 2020, the first Hispanic person to do so, and ran one of the most successful and inclusive coordinated campaigns in the county party’s history. Dyana’s close relationship with women’s issues, health care and racial equity comes from her personal experience as a mother, Latina, community advocate, grassroots organizer and leader. She earned an associate degree from Austin Community College in 2003, a bachelor's degree from Texas State University in 2005, and a graduate degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2008.

About the County Clerk

Dyana Limon-Mercado earned an associate degree from Austin Community College in 2003, a bachelor's degree from Texas State University in 2005, and a graduate degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2008.

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Dyana Limon-Mercado is the newly elected County Clerk. Dyana’s professional experience includes working as the executive director of Planned Parenthood Texas Votes. She has served on numerous boards of directors and commissions for causes that work to advance race equity and gender equity, including the Equity Advisory Committee for Austin ISD, City of Austin Commission for Women, and the YWCA Greater Austin.

Dyana Limon-Mercado‘s first job after graduating from Texas State University was working as a clerk in the Austin Municipal Court – an experience that she said led directly to the office she holds now.
“It was through that experience working firsthand in our jail that I saw, unfortunately, how unjust our justice system was – and that inspired me to go work in the Capitol on criminal justice reform,” Limon-Mercado said.

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Dyana worked as the executive director of Planned Parenthood Texas Votes. She previously worked as a clerk in the Austin Municipal Court.

About the County Clerk

Dyana Limon-Mercado is the newly elected County Clerk. Dyana’s professional experience includes working as the executive director of Planned Parenthood Texas Votes. She has served on numerous boards of directors and commissions for causes that work to advance race equity and gender equity, including the Equity Advisory Committee for Austin ISD, City of Austin Commission for Women, and the YWCA Greater Austin. She was elected as the Travis County Democratic Party Chair from 2018 to 2020, the first Hispanic person to do so, and ran one of the most successful and inclusive coordinated campaigns in the county party’s history. Dyana’s close relationship with women’s issues, health care and racial equity comes from her personal experience as a mother, Latina, community advocate, grassroots organizer and leader. She earned an associate degree from Austin Community College in 2003, a bachelor's degree from Texas State University in 2005, and a graduate degree from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2008.

Dyana Limon-Mercado is the newly elected County Clerk.

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Good governance means we must consistently provide the public with quality customer service and constantly work to improve government services through new technology to make them readily available and accessible.

Good governance means we must consistently provide the public with quality customer service and constantly work to improve government services through new technology to make them readily available and accessible. Enhance integration between county and district courts systems to promote accessibility.

After winning an easy victory in both the Democratic primary and general election last year, Limon-Mercado was formally sworn in on Jan. 27 as the first newly elected Travis County Clerk since Dana DeBeauvoir won the job in 1986. A former Planned Par­ent­hood Texas Votes executive and chair of the Travis County Democratic Party, she’s taking the reins at a fraught moment – responsible for overseeing elections in a heavily Democratic county of a state with an increasingly far-right government.
“I have heard loud and clear that because of the size of our county, how quickly the population has grown, our traffic patterns, all of the changes our community has gone through in the last number of decades, really there’s a call and a need for more polling locations,” she said. But adding polling locations will require the county to acquire more polling machines and as much as double its elections workforce.

At the clerk’s office, every vote is taken seriously.

“It just doesn't get dumped in a bin and we forget about it,” Travis County Clerk Dyana Limon-Mercado said. “A human — actually two humans — one from the Democratic Party, one from the Republican Party, will actually look at that image of your ballot and decipher what was the voter’s intent.”

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Plans to fully implement a criminal court case-management system that provides efficient online access to electronic documents.

Advocates for improving government services through technology, with an emphasis on accessible public services and customer service.

Supports integrating county and district court systems to improve accessibility.

Said Travis County needs more polling locations because of population growth, traffic patterns, and community changes.

Uses a two-person, bipartisan review of ballot images to determine voter intent.

- Plans to fully implement a criminal court case-management system that provides efficient online access to electronic documents.
- Advocates for improving government services through technology, with an emphasis on accessible public services and customer service.
- Supports integrating county and district court systems to improve accessibility.
- Said Travis County needs more polling locations because of population growth, traffic patterns, and community changes.
- Uses a two-person, bipartisan review of ballot images to determine voter intent.

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Dyana Limon-Mercado

- Uses a two-person, bipartisan review of ballot images to determine voter intent.

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

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 ISD, City of Austin Commission for Women, and the YWCA Greater Austin.

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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- 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.