Love announces re-election bid for Clinton County Prothonotary

LOCK HAVEN, PA – Cynthia Love, has announced that she will seek re-election in the 2023 May Primary Election for the office of Clinton County Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts. Cindy – as she is better known to her friends and the community – was proud to have been elected to serve Clinton County in 2019 and began her first term in office in January of 2020.

In this dual position, she has had the honor of being a part of the Pennsylvania State Association of Prothonotaries and Clerks of Courts (PAPCC). This organization has existed in Pennsylvania since the first organization of English government in colonial America. While the term was once commonly used in the United States, only the courts of Pennsylvania and Delaware still term their chief clerks “Prothonotaries.”

During the 2022 PAPCC Conference held in Pittsburgh, Cindy was elected as a member of the Executive Board of this historic body of elected officials. She also chairs the Prothonotary Manual Committee as well as serving on the Bylaws Committee and the Clerk of Courts Manual Committee. She is further honored to be the “unofficial official” Invocation and Benediction Leader for State Conferences.

Locally, Cindy has been an active member of the Clinton County “Teen Court” project, which gives area students who may have had infractions, a chance to come to a courtroom setting and have their case tried by other students acting as prosecution and defense, and subsequently heard before a jury of their peers. This program is mentored by local magistrates, juvenile probation, attorneys, law enforcement, and other elected officials such as your Prothonotary.

During her first term in office, the physical offices within the Clinton County Court House have seen several upgrades. A new mail system was implemented and by receiving grant money, a new mailbox such as used in post offices was installed on the first floor and made easily accessible to attorneys and county departments.

Digitizing of paper records is another focus and seeking of grant monies has begun. Paperwork over 100 years old is disintegrating and must be preserved, so the digitizing of thousands of records has been another project that is ongoing and will eventually be made further accessible to the public.

Cindy and her four deputies and clerks have been busy not only serving the public, but also keeping up to date with new statutes and rules that are ever evolving and govern the processes within the two offices.

Expungements, Pardons, and Clean Slate cases have risen over the past few years and the Clerk of Courts office is proud of the number of cases that have been addressed and given people “clean slates” in order to move forward with their lives.

Cindy is a life-long resident of Clinton County and resides in Swissdale, Woodward Township, with her husband Wayne. They have been married for 48 years and are the proud parents of two sons, Troy Love of South Williamsport, and Todd Love of Jersey Shore. Cindy and Wayne are also the very proud grandparents of four grandsons, Aiden, Hunter, Vaughn, and Jude. She is the daughter of Patty Laubscher Anderson of Swissdale, and the late Kenneth Anderson, Sr., originally of Bitumen (outside of Renovo)!

“In 2020, when I stood before the Honorable President Judge Craig P. Miller, raised my right hand, and was sworn in as the Prothonotary and Clerk of Courts, I could not have been more honored to have been elected by our community and entrusted with the care and keeping of our court records and public documents. When I stand before those selected as jurors and raise my hand to swear them in for jury duty…I take that Oath of Office very seriously. I look forward to continuing to serve Clinton County and consider it an honor and privilege to do so.”