The Chancery Clerk serves as the Clerk of the Chancery Court, the Chancery Court Department has the following responsibilities:
- Creates and maintains files for each chancery court suit
- Issues process for service upon defendants
- Records the court's activities in various dockets and minute books
- Schedules courtroom time (where counties share a common courtroom between chancery and circuit, or other, courts)
- Maintains dockets (in those districts without a court administrator who performs this duty)
- Processes all phases of civil commitments
- Summons jurors (in those chancery court matters in which a jury trial has been granted)
- Receives and accounts for various filing fees required to accompany pleadings and appeals
- Attends each session of the chancery court
- Transmits statistical data to the Mississippi Supreme Court, Administrative Office of Courts
- Processes the court's record(s) for appellate review