Donna Kay McKinney
Bexar County District Clerk
Donna Kay McKinney was elected to her first term as Bexar County District Clerk on November 2, 2010. Ms. McKinney earned both her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and her Master’s Degree in Public Administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).
Ms. McKinney's prior public sector service includes time as Chief Deputy of Administration for the Bexar County Tax Assessor-Collector, Director of both the Texas Senate Committee on Nominations and Texas Senate Committee on Redistricting, District Director in the San Antonio office for Senate District 25, Auditor for Bexar County Probate Court No. 2, District Director of the San Antonio office for Texas House District 121, Executive Assistant to Bexar County Commissioner, Precinct 3, and as Supervisor of the Process, Cost, and Recording Departments for the Bexar County District Clerk. Ms. McKinney also taught Budget and Taxation as an Adjunct Professor at UTSA.
Ms. McKinney was appointed to the Texas Court Records Preservation Task Force by The Honorable Wallace B. Jefferson, Chief Justice of The Supreme Court of Texas on August 12, 2011. The Task Force was formed to study and report on the preservation of historic Texas state district and county court records. Ms. McKinney was one of only two District Clerks asked to speak on her preservation efforts when the task force’s first report was presented to a meeting of the Supreme Court of Texas.
Ms. McKinney also serves on the five-member board of The Hidalgo Foundation. The Hidalgo Foundation is a non-profit organization formed in 2001 by Founder and President Tracy Wolff with the mission of preserving and renovating the century old historic Bexar County Courthouse. The Bexar County Courthouse is the oldest and largest continuously operated historic courthouse in Texas.
District Clerk McKinney plans to turn the District Clerk’s office into a truly paperless system. The first step is providing information on the Internet. To that end both the civil and criminal dockets for today, tomorrow, and the next day are already available to view under the Online Services section of our website. That effort would include updating the website to feature more information that is useful to lawyers and the public. Soon to follow will be docket information to view, download and purchase copies of public records, including certified copies all on the Internet.