David fox nashville biography

Story Director// “Story Catalyst”

A reformed sports writer with an affinity for stories about normal people in extraordinary circumstances, David Fox is a perfect fit for Advent. Whether he’s conducting StoryMining interviews, selecting photos for a display or writing editorial content for our site, David brings a journalist’s eye and a storyteller’s perspective to his work.

With more than 10 years of experience as a writer and editor for Athlon Sports and rivals.com, David is the Advent story team’s go-to guy for stats, team histories and trivia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Florida and a master of sport administration from Belmont University.

As Senior Story and Content Strategist, David collects photos and content from clients and organizes them for the design and production teams, communicating with clients on everything from image quality to trophy dimensions. In his capacity as a writer, he works throughout the story process, from initial research and StoryMining through con

David Fox was a 2015 candidate for Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee. The general election took place on August 6, 2015. A runoff election took place on September 10, 2015.

Campaign themes

2015

Fox's website highlighted the following campaign themes:[1]

The Best-Educated City in the South

  • Excerpt: "David believes all of Nashville’s children can learn and succeed if our leaders feel the same urgency for the educational needs of other people’s children as they do for their own."

Infrastructure for a Growing City

  • Excerpt: "“The Nashville Way” is all about not becoming the next Atlanta or L.A. when it comes to traffic, sprawl and the loss of our Southern small-town feel."

Holding Down Debt & Taxes

  • Excerpt: "The big projects we’ve built recently have added over a billion dollars to our debt. Add $3 billion in unfunded government employee pension and healthcare costs and you see the problem."

Keeping Our City Safe

  • Excerpt: "During this campaign, David and his team have talked with thousands of voters. The most eye-opening thing has been the concern

    2015 Nashville mayoral election

    The 2015 Nashville mayoral election took place on August 6, 2015, to elect the next mayor of Nashville, Tennessee. Incumbent Democratic Mayor Karl Dean was term limited and could not run for re-election to a third term in office.[2] Since there was no candidate that received a majority of votes in the initial round of the election, a runoff election was held. In the runoff election, Democratic candidate Megan Barry was elected with 54.8% of the vote, defeating Republican Candidate David Fox.[3][4]

    All Nashville municipal elections are required to be non-partisan, but each candidate was affiliated with a political party.

    Candidates

    Advanced to the runoff

    Eliminated in the first round

    Potential

    Declined

    Results

    First round

    Candidate Votes %
    Megan Barry24,553 23.53%
    David A. Fox 23,754 22.77%
    Bill Freeman 22,308 21.38%
    Howard Gentry Jr. 12,110 11.61%
    Charles Robert Bone 10,962 10.51%
    Linda Eskind Rebrov

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