AC Deeds Register Shelton elected president of state organization

Anderson County Register of Deeds Tim Shelton has been elected president of the County Officials Association of Tennessee, or COAT.

Shelton, a lifelong resident of Anderson County, was elected at the organization’s 45th annual conference recently held in Murfreesboro, a press release said.

COAT is a statewide association comprised of all of the county registers of deeds, trustees, county clerks, and state court clerks. The organization was founded in 1968.

Shelton plans to seek re-election in 2014, the press release said.

Shelton is a graduate of Clinton Senior High School and Carson Newman College. He began his career in the Register’s office in 1992 and was elected Register of Deeds in 2002. He is a certified public administrator and is a graduate of both Leadership Anderson County and the University of Tennessee Local Government Leadership Program. He has been awarded the East Tennessee Register of the Year, the Tennessee Registers Association Register of the year, and the COAT Outstanding Register of the Year.

He and his wife Dara have a daughter Addy and a son Harrison, the release said.