Megan Barry

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Megan Barry, 2014

Megan Christine Barry (born September 22, 1963 in Santa Ana , California ) is an American politician ( Democratic Party ). She was Mayor of Nashville from September 25, 2015 to March 6, 2018 .

Life

Barry was born in California because her father was stationed at El Toro Marine Corps Base at the time. She grew up in Overland Park , Kansas , where she attended Notre Dame de Sion Catholic girls' high school. She then studied at the Methodist Baker University in Baldwin City . Here she achieved her bachelor's degree . In 1991 she moved to Nashville to attend the Vanderbilt University the Master of Business Administration to acquire. In 1993 she finished her studies. For several years, Barry worked as a control officer in telecommunications and healthcare .

Megan Barry is married to Bruce Barry, a professor at Vanderbilt University. The two had a son, Max; this came on 29 July 2017 at the age of 22, during a stay in Denver ( Colorado ) due to a drug overdose killed.

Political career

In 2007 and 2011 she was elected to the Metropolitan Council of Nashville City Council.

In April 2013, she began her election campaign for Mayor of Nashville. In the election on August 6, 2015, Barry received the most votes, but could not achieve an absolute majority. In the runoff election on September 10, 2015, she won 55 to 45 percent against David Fox. It replaced the previous mayor Karl Dean , who was no longer allowed to run due to a term limit. Barry was the first woman to serve as mayor in Nashville.

In October 2017, Barry presented a project to massively expand public transport in Nashville. It was to include a 26-  mile light rail network , several new bus routes and a downtown tunnel for both modes of transport. It was fought in particular by Americans for Prosperity , a national interest group supported by the Koch brothers and campaigning against such projects, among other things. The project failed in a referendum on May 1, 2018.

After a two-year extramarital affair with a police officer and related allegations of unauthorized spending of $ 11,000 became known in early 2018  , Barry resigned on March 6, 2018. Her current deputy, David Briley, was sworn in as her successor .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Barry, son of Nashville Mayor Megan Barry, dies from apparent drug overdose
  2. ^ Joey Garrison: Megan Barry elected Nashville mayor. Retrieved August 28, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Hiroko Tabuchi: How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country. New York Times , June 19, 2018, accessed July 31, 2018
  4. ↑ Nils-Viktor Sorge: How two brothers destroy rail projects in the USA. Spiegel Online , July 31, 2018, accessed on the same day.
  5. ^ Joey Garrison: Nashville voters overwhelmingly reject transit referendum. The Tennessean , May 3, 2018, accessed July 31, 2018
  6. ↑ Joey Garrison and Nate Rau and Anita Wadhwani: Nashville Mayor Megan Barry resigns from office as part of guilty plea to felony theft charge. The Tennessean, March 7, 2018, accessed July 31, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Barry, Megan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barry, Megan Christine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician (Democratic Party)
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Ana , California