BALLOT BREAKDOWN
Oak Hill City Commissioner
DALE GRIMES
Dale Grimes has served as the Mayor of the Oak Hill City Commission since 2018. He and his family have lived in Oak Hill for over 35 years.Grimes is a partner at Bass, Berry & Sims PLC. After earning his B.A. from Sewanee, Grimes obtained his J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law
in 1978. He has worked in civil litigation, specializing in antitrust law, for over 40 years. In his 2018 campaign, Grimes’s primary issues involved land planning and zoning. He advocated for keeping Oak Hill completely residential and preserving single-family zoning.
SCOTT PRICE Originally from Birmingham Ala., Scott Price
The City of Oak Hill is south of downtown Nashville and spans 8 square miles with around 1,800 homes and 4,700 residents. The current Oak Hill Board of Commissioners consists of three members: the mayor, the vice-mayor, and a third commissioner. The mayor and vice-mayor have terms that run until 2022. Oak Hill Board of Commissioners is a municipal government in which individual elected officials serve on a small governing board that exercises legislative and executive powers.
graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in History in 1971 and received his Juris Doctor degree from Samford University in 1974. After four years in the Marines, Price earned a Master of Law degree in Taxation at George Washington University. Before becoming Vice President and General
Counsel for the Eller and Olsen Stone Company, Price worked as a private practice lawyer with Nashville firm Cornelius, Collins, Higgins and White. He has also been a member of the Municipal Planning Commission for the City of Oak Hill for 16 years, having served as its Chairman, as well as a Commissioner for the City. He current-
ly serves as the Douglas Henry State Museum Commissioner. Price was a board member and VP for the Spina Bifida Foundation of America. He also acted as Vice Chair of the Lipscomb University Board of Trustees. He has served as a Bible class teacher, deacon, and elder at the Hillsboro Church of Christ.
Chancellor, Chancery Court The 95 counties in Tennessee are divided into 31 judicial districts; Davidson County Chancery Court is District 20. Chancellors, or judges, who preside over the chancery court, hear constitutional issues, contract disputes, employment lawsuits, construction, real property and commercial litigation, applications for receivership and liquidation of insurance companies, state tax
PATRICIA HEAD MOSKAL Chancery Court Part I
Patricia Head Moskal is the incumbent judge running unopposed. Moskal holds a
I’ASHEA L. MYLES Chancery Court Part III
I’Ashea L. Myles is running for Chancellor of Chancery Court, Part III. Myles received both her bachelor’s and law degrees from
B.A. from Indiana University-Bloomington. She earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where she graduated with highest honors and was a John W. Green Scholar. Before attending law school, Moskal was a special needs teacher in Chattanooga. She went on to become a longtime employee and partner at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, where she litigated business and commercial cases, as well as tax law. Moskal served
as Vice President and Board Member of the Nashville Bar Association, is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Nashville Bar Foundation, and serves as a Character and Fitness Interviewer for the Board of Law Examiners. In 2018, Moskal received the Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey Award from The Lawyers’ Association for Women. In 2019, Moksal was appointed as Davidson County Chancellor, Part I, to replace retiring Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman.
Belmont University and is now an attorney at Spencer Fane Bone McAllester PLLC, where she practices construction, real estate, employment, and commercial business law. The Nashville Business Journal recently named Myles one of 2021’s Women of Influence and honored her with the Trailblazer Award. She led the first-ever expungement clinic for Rutherford County. Myles was named an Attorney for Justice by the Tennessee Supreme
Court for her pro bono service and currently serves as the President of the Napier Looby Bar Association and was a former member on the Board of Directors for the Lawyers’ Association for Women and United Way. She was endorsed by Davidson County Democratic Women. According to her website, Myles plans to bring a diverse and inclusive perspective to Chancery Court and plans to interpret and apply the law impartially and equally for everyone in this County.
disputes, workers compensation, local governmental actions, including appeals from a variety of local boards and commissions, applications for injunctions, writs of certiorari, emancipation of minors, and name changes. The Davidson County Chancery Court is also the court of appeals for several administrative agencies, such as the Tennessee Department of
ANNE C. MARTIN Chancery Court Part II
The incumbent Anne C. Martin first took office in 2018. In 2019, the Tennessee Supreme Court appointed her judge of Nashville’s Business Court Docket. Mar-
RUSSELL T. PERKINS
Chancery Court Part IV Russell T. Perkins is the incumbent running for reelection
TennCare, Tennessee Department of Labor, and the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance, among many others. Chancellors are elected for eight-year terms and must be authorized to practice law in the courts of Tennessee. In addition, they must be at least 30 years of age and a state resident for five years, and of the district for one year.
tin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College and a Juris Doctor degree from Vanderbilt University. Before becoming a judge, she worked for Nashville law firms Dodson Parker Behm & Capparella and Bone McAllester Norton PLLC, where she specialized in commercial litigation and employment law. She describes herself as a “natural networker” who is passionate about “using the special gifts she has developed as a lawyer to help others who cannot help themselves.”
Outside of court, Chancellor Martin is passionate about the numerous charities she works with, especially those benefiting children. The Chancellor sits on the board of special needs education and childcare center First Steps, Inc. and is also involved with the Interfaith Dental Clinic, which provides dental services for low-income and uninsured individuals. She was an Adjunct Professor at the Belmont University College of Law and now teaches at the Nashville School of Law.
in Tennessee’s 20th Judicial District Chancery Court. Perkins obtained an undergraduate degree from Tennessee State University and a Juris degree from Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law. Perkins served as an assistant attorney general in the Ohio Attorney General’s Office before joining the Nashville law firm of Williams and Dinkins in Nashville in 1982, where he practiced law for 12 years. From 1994 to 2008, he
served in the Tennessee Attorney’s General Office, notably as lead counsel for Tennessee’s historic tobacco settlement. He was appointed to his current position in 2008 and won reelection in 2014. Russell T. Perkins is the founding pastor of Bread of Heaven Church. In 2000, Perkins received the William M. Leech, Jr. Award. Perkins is a member of the Nashville Bar Association and Harry Phillips Inns of Court.
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