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Hiring Agency:
Supreme Court - Agency 5
Location:
Omaha, NE
Hiring Rate:
$19.626
Job Posting:
JR2026-00030466 District Courtroom Clerk/Court Reporter I/II (Open)
Applications No Longer Accepted On (If no date is displayed, job is posted as open until closed):
12-01-2026
Job Description:
** The Judicial Branch does not sponsor STEM (form i-983) or non-immigrant work visas for this position. **
The Judicial Branch offers:
Health & Wellness
79% employer-paid health and prescription insurance
Dental and vision insurance plans available to purchase
Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, available to purchase
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for confidential support
Flex Spending (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
Financial Security
156% state-matched of the first 4.8% contribution to retirement plan
FREE $20,000 Life Insurance Policy
Optional Life Insurance and AD&D available to purchase
Paid Time Off & Leave
13 paid holidays annually
Paid vacation and sick leave that begin accruing immediately
Military leave and Funeral/Bereavement leave
Professional Growth
Paid training to develop your skills
Free continuing education credits to maintain professional certifications
Access to specialized courses through Judicial Branch Education
Opportunity for bilingual pay
Job Description
The Administrative Office of the Courts and Probation (AOCP) is accepting applications for a full time District Courtroom Clerk/Official Court Reporter in the Douglas County Separate Juvenile Court, 4th Judicial District. Under direct supervision of Separate Juvenile Court Judge Mary Stevens, this is a responsible paraprofessional position. The work involves verbatim reporting and transcribing for court proceedings, hearings and conferences. Employees in the Court Reporter I classification have met the qualifications set forth in §1-204(A)(2) and § 1-204(B) or (C). Employees in the Court Reporter II classification have met the above qualifications and are certified as a Certified Realtime Reporter (CRR), through the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA); or a Federal Certified Realtime Reporter (FCRR).
District Court Courtroom Clerk
The Administrative Office of the Courts and Probation is accepting applications for a full-time Official Court Reporter I or II/District Courtroom Clerk position in Douglas County Separate Juvenile Court, 4th Judicial District. Reporting directly to Separate Juvenile Court Judge Mary Stevens, this is responsible courtroom work related to capturing and maintaining a verbatim record of court proceedings and other matters of increased complexity.
Court Reporter I and II
Official Court Reporters who would like to work for the AOCP and are not interested in doing freelance court reporting are given the option of having the AOCP purchase and keep updated all of their equipment and software. For stenographic official court reporters, this includes providing you with a laptop, docking station, monitor(s), steno machine, software (Eclipse by Advantage Software or Case CATalyst by Stenograph, LLC), microphone and/or handheld device for making a backup digital audio recording of court proceedings, and secure cloud backup storage. For digital official court reporters, this includes audio recording system (laptop/PC, docking station, microphone(s), mixer), monitor(s), and audio recording software (Liberty Recorder).
Location:
Douglas County Courthouse
1701 Farnam St
Omaha, NE 68183-0001
Hiring Rate (during probation):
District Court Courtroom Clerk: $40,822.75 annually
Court Reporter I: $57,441.71 annually
Court Reporter II: $66,495.95 annually
Minimum Permanent (after probation):
District Court Courtroom Clerk: $41,843.37 annually
Court Reporter I: $58,877.74 annually
Court Reporter II: $68,158.37 annually
District Court Courtroom Clerk
The District Court Courtroom Clerk may perform the following duties to include entering case information in DOCKET, an enhancement of JUSTICE (the court case management system)…