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Karl Foster Dean (born September 20, 1955) served as the sixth mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee. He was sworn in on September 21, 2007.〔 〕 From 1999 to January 9, 2007, Karl Dean served as Nashville's Director of Law under Mayor Bill Purcell.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.karldean.info/karl_dean_bio.php )〕 In 1990, 1994, and 1998, he was elected the city's public defender. Karl Dean is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School. He graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from Columbia University in 1978 and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1981.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty/affiliated-faculty/karl-f-dean/index.aspx ) 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.wsmv.com/nashvillemayor/13529703/detail.html )〕 Although elections in Nashville are nonpartisan, Dean, like nearly all elected officials in the city, is known to be a Democrat.〔 ==Legal opinions as Metro Law Director== In March 2005, Karl Dean wrote that Mayor Bill Purcell could seek a third term, despite a 1994 referendum on "any elected office authorized or created by the () charter." This was because the 1963 charter states that there is a three-term limit for mayors, the 1994 amendment took place against a backdrop of a push for congressional term limits, and local public discussion focused on the Metro Council. In January 2003, he said a proposed law to ban job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation was not unconstitutional. When Metro Council members' health-care benefits came under scrutiny in September 2004, because the Metro Charter does not allow pension benefits for Council members, Karl Dean said that a health-care benefit wouldn't legally fall under a pension benefit, and therefore wouldn't be against the Charter. When asked if an amendment to the Metropolitan Charter requiring raises in the maximum property tax rates approved by the Metro Council to also be approved by Metro voters, Karl Dean said that a court was likely to find that provision of the Metro Charter invalid. This is because, he said, the Tennessee General Assembly has not authorized the charter of a consolidated government to restrict the authority of a legislative body to levy an ''ad valorem'' tax on property.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=ftp://ftp.nashville.gov/web/Legal/2006-03.pdf )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Karl Dean」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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