Eva Buck wants to be the clerk of Beaufort County Superior Court instead of being a former employee of the clerk’s office.

 

Buck, a Democrat and Chocowinity resident, is slated to announce her candidacy at 6 p.m. Thursday at On the Waterfront, the restaurant at the southern terminus of Market Street. The filing period for statewide and county offices begins at noon Feb. 10, 2014, ends at noon Feb. 28, 2014, according to Anita Bullock Branch, deputy director of the Beaufort County Board of Elections.

 

If Clerk of Court Marty Paramore seeks re-election, he would face Buck in the May primary.

 

“I am running because I believe I can bring experience that the current clerk does not have. I have 13 years of experience — 11-plus years here in Beaufort County Clerk of Superior Court with Thomas S. Payne (a former clerk of court),” Buck said. “I gained enormous amounts of knowledge from that gentleman.”

 

Buck left the local clerk of court’s office to move to Minnesota with her husband, Dalton R. Buck Jr., when he was promoted at his job and was transferred. Buck, a Chocowinity High School graduate, said she worked for a court-administration office for two-plus years while in Minnesota.

 

“I have a wide variety of dealings with judicial systems and different things. I believe that even though you have to follow the letter of the law, which is what you should do, there’s different ways to get there. Some of them are more efficient than others. The most important thing is to be accurate in holding those records,” Buck said.

 

Buck said family, friends and others did not encourage her to run.

 

“It’s something personal to me. I’ve always said, probably since my third year at being at the clerk’s office, and I’ve said it ever since, your either born to be a clerk or you’re not. What I mean by that is you have to be able to multitask under great pressure and little reward,” she said.

 

Buck and her husband will have been married 23 years next month. They have a son, Ryan Thomas Buck.

 

“I come from an enormous family. I’m the youngest of five (children),” Buck said.

 

“It would be an honor and privilege to be the clerk of Beaufort County Superior Court because I have worked with a lot of those ladies in that office … and a lot of them care with all of their hearts,” Buck said.