Kelly Arnold

Kelly Arnold was born and raised in McPherson, Kansas. After he graduated from McPherson High School, he earned bachelor degrees in Business Management and Finance from Tabor College in Hillsboro.[2] He later graduated from Wichita State University's Hugo Wall School of Public Affairs as Certified Master County Clerk.[3]

Arnold worked in the finance industry before his 2008 election to the office of Sedgwick County Clerk. He ran unopposed in 2012 and 2016.[4] He is responsible for private and commercial filings.[5] He is a member of the Executive Committee for South Central Kansas of the County Clerks & Election Officials.[3]

As Sedgwick County Clerk, Kelly provides quality, efficient service to Kansans and supports election officials across the state. The office of the Clerk is entrusted with a budget of over $1 million in taxpayer dollars and annually processes over 74,000 real-estate transactions. In his first two terms, Kelly returned over $400,000 taxpayer dollars while maintaining the quality, professional service Sedgwick County taxpayers expect and deserve. The County Clerk is tasked with securing the public's access to proceedings, transactions and reports of the county's governing board, as well as real property ownership transfers within Sedgwick County. Under Kelly’s leadership, the office has digitized nearly one million individual property records. These records have been organized, cataloged and placed into a searchable electronic database which is accessed by the public daily for property ownership research.[6]

Arnold is chairman of the board of trustees of the Kansas Public Employee Retirement System[7] and the Board of Directors at Hillsboro State Bank.[5]

Arnold lives in Wichita, Kansas.[16]