Oak Hill City Commissioner

Oak Hill City Commissioner

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.

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 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 currently 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.