Thomas Frederick O'Connell (born 1976/1977)[2][3][4] is an American politician and currently serves as the 10th Mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County.[5] From 2015 to 2023, he served as a member of the Nashville Metro Council representing the 19th district.
O'Connell was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Beatrice, a retired teacher, and Tim, a federal civil servant and part-time songwriter.[6] He graduated from Montgomery Bell Academy in 1995, and earned two bachelor's degrees from Brown University in 2000, one in Music and the other in Computer Science.[6][7][8] He is of Jewish descent through one of his grandparents.[9]
O'Connell began his career in software and technology, working for startups and publicly traded companies. He was also president of the Salemtown Neighbors Neighborhood Association.[5] From 2005 until 2010, he co-hosted a political talk show on WRVU, the Vanderbilt University student radio station.[10]
In 2002, O'Connell ran as an Independent against future Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives Beth Harwell.[10]
O'Connell formerly served as a board member and chair of the board for the Nashville Metropolitan Transit Authority.[10] While municipal elections in Nashville are officially nonpartisan, O'Connell identifies as a Democrat.[11]
In 2015, O'Connell ran for the Nashville Metro Council in the 19th district, receiving 54 percent of the vote during the August 6 election.[12] In 2019, he ran for reelection unopposed.[10]
In April 2022, O'Connell announced that he would run for mayor of Nashville in the 2023 Nashville mayoral election.[13] In the first round of voting, O'Connell led all candidates with 27.2% of the vote.[14] He defeated Alice Rolli in the runoff on September 14, 2023, winning 64% of the vote.[15] He was sworn into office on September 25.[16]
O'Connell lives in the Salemtown neighborhood of Nashville with his partner, Dr. Whitney Boon, an attending child neurologist at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, and their two children.[6][5] He has been known to occasionally DJ at events in the Nashville area.[17]
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