Official Court Reporter I or II​/District Courtroom Clerk

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Hiring Agency:

Supreme Court - Agency 5

Location:

Madison, NEHiring Rate:$19.626

Job Posting:

JR Official Court Reporter I or II/District Courtroom Clerk (Open)
Applications No Longer Accepted On (If no date is displayed, job is posted as open until closed):10-20-2026

Job Description:

The Administrative Office of the Courts and Probation (AOCP) is accepting applications for a full time District Courtroom Clerk/Official Court Reporter in the Madison County District Court , 7th Judicial District. Under direct supervision of District Court Judge Ryan Stover, this is a responsible paraprofessional position. The work involves verbatim reporting and transcribing for court proceedings, hearings and conferences. Employees in the Court Reporter I classification have met the qualifications set forth in §1-204(A)(2) and § 1-204(B) or (C).

Employees in the Court Reporter II classification have met the above qualifications and are certified as a Certified Realtime Reporter (CRR), through the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA); or a Federal Certified Realtime Reporter (FCRR).District Court Courtroom Clerk The Administrative Office of the Courts and Probation is accepting applications for a full-time Official Court Reporter I or II/District Courtroom Clerk position in Madison County District Court, 7th Judicial District.

Reporting directly to District Court Judge Ryan Stover, this is responsible courtroom work related to capturing and maintaining a verbatim record of court proceedings and other matters of increased complexity.

Court Reporter I and II Official Court Reporters who would like to work for the AOCP and are not interested in doing freelance court reporting are given the option of having the AOCP purchase and keep updated all of their equipment and software. For stenographic official court reporters, this includes providing you with a laptop, docking station, monitor(s), steno machine, software (Eclipse by Advantage Software or Case CATalyst by Stenograph, LLC), microphone and/or handheld device for making a backup digital audio recording of court proceedings, and secure cloud backup storage.

For digital official court reporters, this includes audio recording system (laptop/PC, docking station, microphone(s), mixer), monitor(s), and audio recording software (Liberty Recorder).Hiring Bonus:

For qualified applicants applying as a District Court Courtroom Clerk, a $2,500 hiring bonus is available. To be considered a qualified applicant, applicants must have obtained their Certified Electronic Reporter (CER) certification.

Note that $1,250 will be paid at hire and the remaining $1,250 will be paid at the successful completion of the 6-month original provisional period.

For qualified applicants applying as a Court Reporter I or Court Reporter II, a $5,000 hiring bonus is available. To be considered a qualified applicant as a Court Reporter I, applicants must have obtained their Registered Professional Reporter (RPR) or Certified Electronic Court Reporter (CER) or Certified Electronic Transcriber (CET) certification. To be considered a qualified applicant as a Court Reporter II, applicants must have obtained their Certified Realtime Reporter (CRR) or Federal Certified Realtime Reporter (FCRR) certification.

Note that $2,500 will be paid at hire and the remaining $2,500 will be paid at the successful completion of the 6-month original provisional period.

Hiring Rate (during probation):

District Court Courtroom Clerk: $40,822.75 annually

Court Reporter I: $57,441.71 annually

Court Reporter II: $66,495.95 annually

Minimum Permanent (after probation):

District Court Courtroom Clerk: $41,843.37 annually

Court Reporter I: $58,877.74 annually

Court Reporter II: $68,158.37 annually

District Court Courtroom Clerk The District Court Courtroom Clerk may perform the following duties to include entering case information in DOCKET, an enhancement of JUSTICE (the court case management system) of the Nebraska Court System used to capture the various parts of the proceeding that, when completed correctly, will generate Judge's Orders and other official court records, pleadings, and other actions.

The navigation between screen selections is real time and fast paced. Verbal parts of the court hearing is not completed with a stenograph, the District Courtroom Clerk is responsible for typing portions of Judge's decision in real time; checking and operating electronic recording equipment (computer application based) to record (official…