Dear Residents of Brevard County: 
Thank you for visiting my website. I would like to present to you some information about myself.
I was born in Charleston, West Virginia. As a child in 1966 my family moved to Eau Gallie following jobs in the space program . I graduated from Eau Gallie High School in 1976. Following graduation, I enlisted in the United States Air Force, attaining the rank of Sergeant prior to my honorable discharge in 1980.
After my separation from the military, I enrolled at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. I graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. I went to work for RCA at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station as a software analyst on the Command Destruct Range Safety programs. I also began taking an active role in governmental affairs at all levels, writing and speaking on numerous subjects in Brevard County.
Continuing my post-graduate education through night courses at the University of Central Florida, I graduated with a Master’s degree in Business Administration in 1985. I was later employed by Horizons Technology, working on the Joint STARS project at Grumman in Melbourne. In 1992, I was elected to the Brevard County Commission. While on the County Commission I worked hard for less government by cutting back on expenditures, debt, and bureaucratic red tape. Following my term on the County Commission I again worked in software at Grumman and at Harris.
I was elected the Brevard Clerk of the Court in 2000. I voluntarily left office at the end of 2010 yielding to Mr. Mitch Needelman, elected that August. I am currently running again for the Clerk’s position to restore the integrity, order, operations, and morale we had when I left over one year ago.
Over the course of my time in Brevard County, both in and out of government, I have demonstrated the integrity, ability and accessibility to ensure proper checks are maintained to keep government in balance. Specifically during my tenure with Clerk’s Office we ensured the public had a smooth running operation while providing a great deal of information through easy electronic access and customer service personnel trained and expected to handle the needs of the public on a daily basis.
Scott Ellis
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If Brevardians have their wit and senses and I believe they do, you will win by several lengths!
I liked the efficency of the key people and operations of the Clerk under Scott Ellis leadership much better. Brevard Clerk and its People have suffered during Needelman era.I am not a political person nor have any personal issues with the man, but it is time to do the best for Brevard County and bring scott back to fix the mess.
You walked out, why should we put you back, just to step out again?
You make your own decision what type of office you desire, clearly you favor the current fiasco, your call. I’ll do four years, straighten things out one more time, and be done. The office was filled during a normal election and I left with things running smoothly. It will take a long hard effort and four years to fix the mess we have now. If you want someone who will neve leave then vote for the man who’ll be there forever. I am there to get the mission of the office accomplished, my mission is not to be in political office on a state/county payroll my entire life. If my conscience permitted me to work the minimal hours of the present Clerk I too could have been there for life.
But you walked out in the middle of your term…why? Clearly, you are extremely defensive for someone without guilt. I “clearly” want straight answers and all I have heard is aggressive mudslinging from someone who told people on his own staff that the clerk’s office was a “sinking ship” and now makes claims that you can fix the “mess”. I came to your website hoping for straight forward answers which is what I was told I would get from another member of your staff. Your right, I do make my own choices and you so far you have yet to give me any reason to choose you.
It’s not correct you have no answers, it is simply you do not like my answer. I never told the staff we had a sinking ship, that’s false, in fact we were running fine budget-wise and projected for a $300,000 surplus/return when I left December 31, 2010. I announced I was leaving almost ten months before then and a normal election cycle ensued. I had hoped Ms. Corby would win, and had no desire to leave a broken office, and it was not.
You have already chosen Mr. Needleman, that’s fine. For whatever reason you seek to probe here for something new, there is nothing new. I left over health concerns as I was working long hours for ten years with rarely a day off. Legally I could have done like my predecessor and successor and taken off weeks at a time with pay but ethically I was not going to. Working the same kinds of hours as the current clerk I could have been there forever, as he plans now. It’s not my style. I know if I win I’ll again work four solid years with little time off, and after that I’ll be done.
The office is a mess, it was not left as such. There was never a ‘deficit’, and if you look at the end of year revenue numbers for 2010/2011 you see the office actually got $300,000 MORE revenue than projected. Add that to the $300,000 we projected to return and rather than brag about returning $100,000 Mr. Needleman should be answering where all the money went.
I have nothing to be guilty about. Guilt would have been collecting a check for not working, I could have done that, I would not. I worked right up until December 31st of my final year.
Perhaps you may expound on the ‘aggressive’ mudslinging? The Needleman supporters have created a slew of bizarre allegations about me from drugs to anti-depressants, to blackouts to being lynched, I’m a big boy and can handle it, but anything that seems to be the unwelcome truth by the Needlemen turns into a weeping and wailing pity party.
What is the ‘aggressive’ mudslinging?
What is the source of your off the wall ‘sinking ship’ comment?
Clearly you must know these things first hand to have such statements.
My statements come from people who use to work under your administration who no longer work there now because they do not like Needelman and/or they were out sourced, retired, quit, etc. there are many sources, regardless, you did finally answer my question which was why did you leave in the middle of your term. Your answer is because of health reasons. Thank you.
Health reasons do seem to be a legitimate reason to leave your position early. Will your health prevent you from completing your term again should you win the election? No “job” is worth sacrificing your family or your health and I don’t believe anyone would want to see you do that. Again thank you for answering my question. 
I dom find it hard to believe those who left would claim a ‘sinking ship’ comment I never made. There was no logical reason for it, as of my leaving December 31st we were projected to finish the year $300,000 in the black with another $400,000 in a reserve fund. I can provide the last financials as left if ou contact me at sellis@spacey.net and leave me a mailing address (al I have is a hardcopy). I’ll finish four years and be done, as I said, if I leave early it will be in a box. It will take three to four years to try to rebuild an office which has been so crushed with employee losses, backlogs, errors, and morale destruction.