Mayor Karl Dean to be honored at Nashville Business Breakfast
Kim Chaudoin | 615.966.6494 |
Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, who is nearing the end of his second and final term in office, will be honored for his service to the city at Lipscomb University’s Nashville Business Breakfast set for 7 a.m. Tuesday, July 28, in Lipscomb's Allen Arena.
Several leaders from the community, including entrepreneur and philanthropist Steve Turner and Gary Garfield, CEO and president of Bridgestone Americas, will make remarks about Dean's impact on Nashville. Dean will also reflect on his experience as mayor.
The cost of the breakfast is $30 in advance and $40 at the door. Registration is available online at leadership.lipscomb.edu or by calling 615.966.6609.
Dean is the sixth mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. Dean was elected on Sept. 11, 2007, and was re-elected on Aug. 4, 2011. Nashville mayors are limited to two terms by law. Dean’s priorities have been to improve schools, make neighborhoods safer and to bring more jobs to Nashville. Another hallmark of his administration is to work to improve Nashville's high quality of life through numerous initiatives that promote health, sustainability and volunteerism.
Dean first held public office when he was elected as Nashville’s public defender in 1990, a post he was re-elected to in 1994 and 1998. He served as law director for the city from 1999 to January 2007, when he resigned to run for the office of mayor. Dean has also served as an adjunct professor of law at Vanderbilt and was recently accepted a faculty appointment at Belmont University to teach history and political science beginning this fall.
A native of South Dakota, Dean is married to Nashvillian Anne Davis, whom he met in law school. Davis practiced civil and criminal litigation with Bass, Berry & Sims and Neal & Harwell. She has taught at Vanderbilt Law School for nearly two decades, including courses on white collar crime, trial advocacy and legal writing. She is the director and managing attorney of the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Nashville office. They have three children, Rascoe, Frances and Wallen.
The Nashville Business Breakfast is a quarterly networking event, presented by Lipscomb University and the Nashville Business Journal, with a news-conference style format, featuring business leaders with local economic impact. The event is sponsored by PNC Bank and Crowe Horwath.