Clerk of Florida's Third District Court of Appeal Mary Cay Blanks retired Tuesday after 21 years in the post.

Blanks was the third clerk in the court's 62-year history and has 37 years of public service under her belt, having worked as deputy clerk, assistant clerk and judicial assistant to former Chief Judge Alan R. Schwartz, who died in February.

In Third DCA Judge Vance E. Salter's 11 years on the appellate bench, he's never known another clerk.