TIMELINE OF NASHVILLE / DAVIDSON COUNTY
Prepared with information from the website of the Nashville Public Library and from research conducted at the Metropolitan Archives of Nashville and Davidson County. Click here for a list of all Davidson County Sheriffs.
Special thanks to members of the staff and management of the Metro Archives for their professionalism in helping to gather this information.
| 1700s and Earlier | |
| 8000 BC | First known inhabitants of the area that is now middle Tennessee build villages. |
| 1200 AD | Large native villages cover the area that is now Davidson County. |
| 1450 | Native villages are disappearing and the area that is now middle Tennessee is becoming a hunting area. |
| 1600s | Charleville, a French-Canadian fur trader, establishes a trading post at the French Lick. |
| 1714 | Charleville’s post is now abandoned. Middle Tennessee is a hunting ground for the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek tribes. |
| 1769 | Timothy Demonbreun, a French-Canadian fur trader, arrives at the French Lick and begins hunting in the area. |
| 1775 | The American Revolution begins. |
| 1775 | North Carolinian Richard Henderson bargains with Cherokee leaders for claim to the land between the Ohio and Cumberland rivers. |
| 1776 | The Declaration of Independence is signed. |
| 1779 | At Henderson’s urging, James Robertson leads a small group of men to explore the Cumberland Bluff in the spring. |
| 1779 | Col. John Donelson prepares flotilla of flatboats to bring women and children to the area by water. |
| 1779 | Robertson leads the first group of settlers, mostly men and boys, to the Cumberland Bluff, arriving on Christmas Day. |
| 1780 | Donelson arrives with second group of settlers on April 24 after a 1000-mile river trip. |
| 1780 | The Cumberland Compact, detailing settlers’ rights, is signed by 250 men on May 13. |
| 1783 | Daniel Williams moves to the area from South Carolina with his family, becomes Davidson County’s first Sheriff. Elections for Sheriff are scheduled for every two years. |
| 1783 | The North Carolina legislature creates Davidson County in the area that is now middle Tennessee. |
| 1783 | The Revolutionary War ends. |
| 1784 | The North Carolina legislature passes an act establishing the town of Nashville, naming it for General Francis Nash. |
| 1785 | Col. John Donelson, one of Nashville’s founders, is mysteriously killed. |
| 1785 | Dr. John Sappington is the first physician to arrive in Nashville. |
| 1785 | The first school, Davidson Academy, is chartered. |
| 1785 | Thomas Marston in Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1787 | David Wray is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1787 | Real estate is assessed in Nashville and taxed for the first time, at the rate of one dollar per acre. |
| 1788 | Andrew Jackson arrives in Nashville to serve as public prosecutor. |
| 1788 | Bob Renfroe, a free African-American opens a popular tavern in Nashville. |
| 1788 | Thomas Hickman is Sheriff of Davidson County. He would become a Justice in 1799. |
| 1789 | Sampson Williams is Sheriff of Davidson County. He may have been a brother of Davidson County’s first Sheriff, Daniel Williams. |
| 1790 | William Porter is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1791 | Sampson Williams is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1794 | James Robertson leads the Nickajack Expedition against the Creek Indians. |
| 1794 | Nicholas P. Hardiman is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1796 | Nashville’s first church (a Methodist church) is built on the public square near the Davidson County jail, courthouse, and stocks. |
| 1799 | Nashville’s first newspaper, Henkle’s Tennessee Gazette & Metro Advertiser, is printed. |
| 1799 | Wright Williams is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
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1800 – 1849 |
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| 1800 | Joseph Johnson is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1802 | John Boyd is Sheriff of Davidson County. Boyd was one of the signers of 1780’s Cumberland Compact, and is believed to have fathered the first male child whose birth was recorded in Nashville. |
| 1806 | Cumberland College is chartered as the successor to the Davidson Academy. |
| 1806 | Nashville incorporates as a town in Davidson County, to be governed by six Aldermen and a Mayor. |
| 1807 | The Bank of Nashville is founded, becoming the first bank in Tennessee. |
| 1807 | Nashville’s first force of volunteer fire-fighters is created. |
| 1808 | Michael C. Dunn is Sheriff of Davidson County. He also served as a Justice in 1805. |
| 1810 | The first book in Davidson County is published. |
| 1812 | The first meeting of the legislature is held in Nashville. |
| 1812 | The War of 1812 begins. |
| 1813 | James Robertson, one of the founders of Nashville, dies near Memphis. |
| 1815 | The War of 1812 ends. |
| 1816 | Caleb C. Hewitt is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1816 | The Nashville Female Academy is founded. |
| 1818 | Nashville celebrates the first arrival of a steamboat, the Andrew Jackson. |
| 1818 | Thomas Hickman is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1819 | James Monroe visits Davidson County, becoming the first U.S. President to visit Nashville. |
| 1820 | Ann Rodgers Grundy begins the first Sunday School class in Nashville. |
| 1821 | The Nashville Medical Society is founded in the log courthouse on the public square, becoming the first medical association in Tennessee. |
| 1822 | Joseph W. Horton is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1822 | The City Cemetery is established on 4th Avenue South. |
| 1822 | The first bridge is built across the Cumberland River. It is made of stone. |
| 1824 | Andrew Jackson is defeated in his campaign for President of the United States. |
| 1824 | Music publishing begins in Nashville with Western Harmony, a book of hymns and instructions for singing. |
| 1824 | Phillip Lindsley comes to Nashville to be the head of Cumberland College. |
| 1826 | The General Assembly passes an act establishing the University of Nashville. |
| 1828 | Andrew Jackson is elected seventh President of the United States. |
| 1830 | Willoughby Williams is Sheriff of Davidson County. In his retirement, he took pride in the fact that he “was never in a single instance called on to explain one of his many official acts [as Sheriff]”. |
| 1833 | Nashville’s first publicly owned waterworks is completed. |
| 1833 | The first insurance company in Davidson County, the Tennessee Marine and Fire Insurance Company, is founded. |
| 1836 | Philip Campbell is Sheriff of Davidson County. He also served as a Justice in 1822. |
| 1838 | Cherokee Indians pass through Davidson County on the now-infamous “Trail of Tears” march. |
| 1838 | Felix R. Rains is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1843 | Nashville is declared the permanent capitol of Tennessee. |
| 1844 | Churchill Lanier is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1844 | James K. Polk is elected President of the United States. |
| 1845 | Andrew Jackson dies at his home, “The Hermitage”, outside Nashville. |
| 1845 | Construction begins on the Tennessee State Capitol building. |
| 1848 | B. M. Barnes is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1848 | The first telegraph message in Davidson County is received. |
| 1849 | James K. Polk dies in Nashville. |
| 1850-1899 | |
| 1850 | The first steam engine, the No. 1, ordered by the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, arrives in Nashville. |
| 1851 | The first gas street lamp is lighted on 2nd Avenue North at the public square. |
| 1852 | A public school system is authorized by the City Aldermen. |
| 1852 | Littlebury W. Fussell is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1854 | E. B. Bigley is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1855 | Mount Olivet Cemetery is created. |
| 1855 | Nashville’s first public school opens on the northeast corner of the intersection of 8th Avenue North and Broad Street. |
| 1857 | John K. Edmundson is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1858 | James Hinton is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1859 | Construction begins on the Maxwell House Hotel. |
| 1859 | Robert Campbell is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1859 | The Tennessee State Capitol building is completed. |
| 1860 | John K. Edmundson is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1861 | The Civil War begins. |
| 1862 | Federal troops occupy Nashville, which becomes the first southern capitol city to fall to the Union Army. |
| 1862 | James M. Hinton is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1865 | The Civil War ends. |
| 1865 | The first mule-drawn streetcars appear in Nashville. |
| 1866 | E. E. Patterson is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1866 | Fisk University is founded. |
| 1867 | John Berrien Lindsley founds Montgomery Bell Academy, using funds left to the University of Nashville by Montgomery Bell at his death in 1855. |
| 1868 | C. M. Donelson is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1869 | Mount Ararat Cemetery is established. |
| 1871 | The Fisk Jubilee Singers begin a series of singing tours to raise money for their struggling school. |
| 1872 | E. D. Whitworth is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1873 | Sampson Keeble becomes the first black man to serve in the Tennessee General Assembly. |
| 1873 | Vanderbilt University is founded. |
| 1876 | Francis M. Woodall is Sheriff of Davidson County. Prior to his election as Sheriff, he was a Constable for six years and a Deputy Sheriff for four years. |
| 1876 | Jubilee Hall is built, becoming the first building in the United States constructed for the higher education of African-Americans. |
| 1876 | Meharry Medical College is founded. |
| 1877 | Nashville’s first telephone call is placed. |
| 1877 | The world’s first air mail is flow from Nashville to nearby Gallatin…via balloon. |
| 1878 | John L. Price is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1880 | Nashville celebrates the centennial year of its founding (the signing of the Cumberland Compact). |
| 1881 | Tim Johnson is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1882 | Nashville’s first electric lights appear. |
| 1883 | T. E. Moore is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1885 | The first professional baseball game in Nashville is played in Athletic Park near the Sulphur Spring Bottom, north of downtown. |
| 1887 | R. D. Marshall is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1889 | Electric trolleys replace the mule-drawn streetcars. |
| 1889 | The Tennessee legislature passes a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting. |
| 1890 | General Hospital opens with 60 beds. |
| 1890 | Vanderbilt plays Peabody in Nashville’s first football game. (Who won? Anyone know?) |
| 1891 | David Lipscomb College begins as the Nashville Bible School. |
| 1891 | W. J. Hill is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1892 | The Union Gospel Tabernacle, later known as the Ryman Auditorium, is completed. |
| 1895 | J. D. Sharp is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1896 | The first automobile is driven in Nashville. |
| 1897 | The Centennial Exposition opens, with the Parthenon as its showpiece. |
| 1899 | Lewis Hurt is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1900-1949 | |
| 1900 | Union Station opens. |
| 1902 | Centennial Park is acquired by the city, marking the beginning of Nashville’s public parks system. |
| 1902 | The National Life Insurance company is founded in Nashville. |
| 1903 | The Arcade opens downtown. |
| 1903 | Thomas E. Cartwright is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1904 | Nashville’s first skyscraper is constructed at the southeast corner of 4th Avenue North and Church Street. |
| 1904 | Some of downtown’s street names are changed to numbers. |
| 1904 | The city’s first Carnegie Library opens at the corner of 8th Avenue North and Union Street. |
| 1904 | The One-Cent Savings Bank, later known as Citizens’ Bank, opens. |
| 1905 | The black community institutes a streetcar boycott to protest a new law requiring separation of the races on electric streetcars. |
| 1905 | The Davidson County Sheriff’s Office has 14 Deputies, one Jailer, and one Turnkey, all of whom are listed by name in the City Directory. |
| 1907 | Charles D. Johns is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1907 | Tony Sudekum opens the first movie theater in town, The Dixie, on 5th Avenue North by the Arcade. |
| 1908 | Ex-Senator and Prohibition leader Edward Ward Carmack is shot by his political adversaries on 7th Avenue North near Union Street. |
| 1909 | Samuel H. Borum is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1909 | Statewide prohibition is passed over the Governor’s veto. |
| 1909 | The school that began as Davidson Academy (then Cumberland College, then University of Nashville, then Peabody Normal College) becomes the George Peabody College for Teachers. |
| 1910 | The Hermitage Hotel opens in downtown Nashville. |
| 1910 | The world’s first night airplane flight takes off from Cumberland Park in Nashville. |
| 1911 | A Model-T Ford climbs the steps of the Capitol building to prove that automobiles could replace horses. |
| 1912 | Goo-Goo candy bars are concocted. |
| 1912 | The 8th Avenue reservoir ruptures, flooding the nearby south Nashville area. |
| 1912 | The Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State Normal School, later re-named Tennessee State University, opens. |
| 1913 | C. W. Longhurst is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1914 | The National American Woman Suffrage Association meets in Nashville. |
| 1915 | O. L. Grimes is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1916 | East Nashville is devastated by fire. |
| 1917 | The Nashville City Directory now shows two additional positions at the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office — Assistant Jailer and Jail Physician. |
| 1917 | World War I begins. |
| 1917 | Joe W. Wright is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1918 | The community of Old Hickory and a powder plant are built by Dupont in Davidson County. |
| 1918 | James R. Allen is Acting Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1919 | The 18th Amendment (prohibition) is ratified. |
| 1919 | World War I ends. |
| 1920 | R. L. Camp is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1920 | Tennessee becomes the 36th, and deciding, state to vote for ratification of the 19th Amendment (women’s suffrage). |
| 1922 | The Nashville City Directory ceases listing Sheriff’s Office employees by name. |
| 1925 | The Grand Ol’ Opry begins. |
| 1926 | Bob Briley is Sheriff of Davidson County. The Davidson County Jail is located at 427 2nd Avenue North. |
| 1927 | The Nashville City Directory boasts that Nashville has “over 750 miles of splendidly built highways” and that “the Vanderbilt Stadium seats 22,000 people and is the largest athletic field in the South.” |
| 1927 | Percy Warner Park, Tennessee’s largest municipal park is established in southwest Davidson County. |
| 1927 | The War Memorial Building is constructed near the Capitol Building to expand state office space. |
| 1928 | The Davidson County Jail now publishes its phone number as “6-6831″. |
| 1929 | Gus S. Kiger is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1929 | The Great Depression begins when the stock market crashes on “Black Tuesday”. |
| 1930 | The Davidson County Workhouse is in operation on Hyde’s Ferry Road, “5 miles west” of town. |
| 1930 | Sam Shryer is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1933 | A tornado wreaks havoc in east Nashville. |
| 1933 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces “The New Deal”. |
| 1934 | Lawrence A. Bauman is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1937 | American Airlines lands its first plane at Nashville’s new airport. |
| 1937 | Nashvillian William Edmondson becomes the first black American to be given a one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. |
| 1937 | The present Davidson County Courthouse is completed and opened. |
| 1938 | F. A. (“Pete”) Carter is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1938 | The Nashville Housing Authority is created. |
| 1939 | Ivey Young is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1940 | Bob Marshall is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1941 | Buses replace the electric streetcars. |
| 1941 | The first Iroquois Steeplechase is run. |
| 1941 | The U.S. Census Bureau’s 140 figures show Davidson County’s population as 257,267 of which 241,931 (94%) live within Nashville’s city limits. |
| 1941 | World War II begins. |
| 1942 | Claude A. Briley is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1943 | Cornelia Fort of Nashville becomes the first female pilot to die on war duty in American history. |
| 1943 | The Grand Ol’ Opry moves into the Ryman Auditorium. |
| 1945 | Three engineers at radio station WSM open “Castle Studio”, the first recording studio in Nashville, in the Tulane Hotel. |
| 1945 | World War II ends. |
| 1947 | Garner Robinson is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1949 | The Capitol Hill Redevelopment Project is approved as the nation’s first urban renewal project. |
| 1950 – 1999 | |
| Year | Events and Milestones |
|---|---|
| 1950 | Capitol Records becomes the first major company to locate its director of country music in Nashville. |
| 1951 | Belmont College opens. |
| 1953 | Thomas Y. Cartwright is Sheriff of Davidson County. The Nashville City Directory shows separate phone numbers for the Jail and for Radio Patrol. |
| 1955 | Kelley v. The Board of Education leads to a school desegregation plan in Nashville. |
| 1956 | Phone numbers in Nashville and Davidson County now have named prefixes. The Sheriff’s Office telephone number is published as “ALpine 62674″. |
| 1956 | Tom B. Cartwright is Sheriff of Davison County. |
| 1957 | Davidson County’s population is estimated at 368,514 with 47% living in Nashville and 53% living in the unincorporated areas. Davidson County’s assessed property valuation is $528,255,360, of which Nashville comprises 59%, with the remaining 41% in the unincorporated areas. |
| 1957 | The “L&C” (Life and Casualty) Tower is completed downtown. |
| 1960 | The Nashville Sit-In Movement leads to widespread desegregation of public facilities. |
| 1961 | Building permits issued in Davidson County total $67,693,222. |
| 1961 | Leslie E. Jett is Sheriff of Davidson County. The Sheriff’s Office has added a Traffic Safety section and an Education Director. |
| 1961 | The Maxwell House Hotel is destroyed by fire. |
| 1961 | The municipal airport opens. |
| 1962 | Metropolitan government, to combine Nashville and Davidson County into one entity, is approved in a voters’ referendum. |
| 1962 | Tennessee’s first interstate highway, connecting Nashville with Memphis, arrives in Nashville. |
| 1963 | Metropolitan government is formally inaugurated on April 1. County Judge Beverly Briley takes office as the first Mayor. Within its 533 square miles, Davidson County is home to an estimated population of 423,150. |
| 1965 | Robert R. Poe is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1966 | The Davidson County Jail is located at 110 N. Public Square, telephone (615) 747-4389. |
| 1967 | Davidson County’s voters approve liquor by the drink. |
| 1967 | John A. Frazier is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1970 | The population of Davidson County is estimated at 469,400. |
| 1972 | Themepark Opryland USA opens in northeast Davidson County. |
| 1973 | Lafayette (“Fate”) Thomas is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1974 | The Grand Ol’ Opry moves from the Ryman Auditorium into the facilities at Opryland. |
| 1975 | Congressman Richard Fulton is elected the second Mayor of Metropolitan Nashville/Davidson County. |
| 1976 | The United Nations comes to Nashville for its first meeting away from New York City. |
| 1978 | Amtrak passenger train service through Nashville comes to an end. |
| 1978 | Professional baseball returns to Nashville with the Nashville Sounds. |
| 1979 | Celebration of Nashville/Davidson County’s bicentennial begins. |
| 1980 | The Tennessee Performing Arts (“T-PAC”) opens. |
| 1982 | The first Summer Lights Festival is held. |
| 1983 | Riverfront Park opens on Broadway, January 10. |
| 1983 | The Sheriff’s Office releases some inmates under a new state law authorizing up to 25% of some convicted misdemeanants’ sentences to be credited for good behavior . |
| 1984 | Nashvillian Tracy Caulkins wins three Olympic gold medals. |
| 1986 | Union Station re-opens a hotel. |
| 1987 | Congressman Bill Boner is elected Mayor of Nashville/Davidson County. |
| 1987 | Nashville opens a new convention center downtown as well as a new airport in east Nashville. |
| 1990 | After 13 years of allegations and investigations, Sheriff “Fate” Thomas is indicted on charges of corruption. He later pleads guilty and is sentenced to five years in federal prison. He is released in late 1994. |
| 1990 | The population of Nashville/Davidson County is reported as 508,181. |
| 1990 | An immense statue of Athena is unveiled in the Parthenon. Over 4 stories tall, it is the largest indoor sculpture in the western world. |
| 1990 | Henderson (“Hank”) Hillin is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1990 | A Federal Judge mandates a maximum allowable population for the Davidson County jail system. |
| 1990 | The population of Nashville/Davidson County is reported as 508,181. |
| 1991 | Phil Bredesen is elected Mayor of Nashville/Davidson County. |
| 1992 | Al Gore, Jr., of Carthage outside Nashville, is elected Vice President of the United States, November 3. |
| 1993 | The Sheriff’s Office Workhouse is closed as a correctional facility and remodeling begins to convert it to office space. |
| 1994 | Gayle Ray is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 1994 | The BellSouth Building opens, October 20. The public soon nicknames the structure “The Bat-Building” for its profile’s resemblance to the fantasy hero Batman. |
| 1996 | Tennessee celebrates its bicentennial. |
| 1996 | The Metro Library Board approves a $125M plan to build a new 315,000 sq. ft. mail library and five regional branches. |
| 1996 | The Tennessee Bicentennial Mall State Park opens the celebration of the states 200th birthday, June 1. |
| 1997 | Opryland-USA closes with “Christmas in the Park” at year-end. |
| 1997 | The National Football League comes to Nashville as the Oilers move from Houston to Tennessee. |
| 1997 | The National Hockey League comes to the Nashville Arena with the Predators, September 25. |
| 1998 | The daily evening newspaper, the Nashville Banner, ceases publication with its final edition, February 20. |
| 1998 | Tornados strike downtown and east Nashville in the middle of work- and school-day, April 16. |
| 1998 | The Sheriff’s Office Correctional Development Center-Male wins national accreditation by the American Correctional Association. |
| 1998 | Tennessee’s NFL team changes its name from its old Houston name, the Oilers, to the Tennessee Titans, and adopts a new logo, December 22. |
| 1998 | The Southern Festival of Books, held annually in Nashville, holds its tenth anniversary celebration. |
| 1999 | Bill Purcell takes office as Mayor, September 21. |
| 1999 | Davidson County’s becomes the first Sheriff’s Office Jerry Newson Center to be awarded national accreditation by the American Correctional Association. |
| 1999 | The abandoned Central State Mental Hospital on Murfreesboro Road is demolished to begin construction of a Dell Computers manufacturing site. |
| 1999 | The 90-year-old Shelby Street Bridge closes permanently to vehicular traffic, and reconstruction begins to convert it to a pedestrian walkway to Adelphia Coliseum. |
| 1999 | Ground is broken for a new main library on Church Street, July 24. |
| 1999 | The first game is played in the new Adelphia Coliseum, August 15. |
| 1999 | The new Nashville Zoo at Grassmere opens. |
| 2000+ | |
| 2000 | The Titans play in the Super Bowl on January 30 and, although they do not win, downtown Nashville is essentially shut down on February 3 when the team is welcomed home with a ticker tape parade for its amazing first season. |
| 2001 | Metro Nashville/Davidson County announces its plan to make many of its services available on the internet. |
| 2001 | The administration of the Davidson County Sheriff’s Office becomes the first in America to be awarded national accreditation by the American Correctional Association. |
| 2002 | The Davidson County Sheriff’s Office’s Criminal Justice Center Detention Facility is accredited by the American Correctional Association, making it the first agency of its kind in the United States to be 100% accredited. |
| 2002 | Daron Hall is Sheriff of Davidson County. |
| 2007 | The Davidson County Sheriff’s Office becomes the first in Tennessee, and only the 4th in the US, to participate in the 287(g) jail model. Trained ICE deputies can now screen foreign-born arrestees to check legal status. |
| 2008 | The Davidson County DUI School now operating under the DCSO and begins generating revenue for Metro Government |
| 2009 | Cell dog program for the female inmate population begins. |
| 2009 | DCSO takes responsibility for courthouse security contract. |
| 2010 | Historic flood hits Nashville as the Cumberland River escapes its bank and devastates businesses and homeowners. DCSO responds with inmate work crews to save Nashville’s only operating water plant and gains national attention. |
| 2010 | Daron Hall is elected to a third term |
| 2010 | Daron Hall is elected as president of the American Correctional Association; the first sheriff in ACA’s more than 100-year history to serve in this position. |
| 2011 | Mobile Booking Unit begins operation to reduce inmate processing time and get officers back in Nashville neighborhoods quicker. |
| 2011 | Inmate daily population hits an all-time low. The 300-bed Offender Re-Entry Center is closed as a housing facility. |
| 2012 | DCSO partners with Make-A-Smile organization to build a playground in a west Nashville neighborhood devastated by the historic 2010 flood. |
| 2012 | After participating in the 287(g) program for five years, seeing a 74 percent decline in the percentage of illegal aliens arrested, and processing more than 10,000 illegal immigrants charged with crimes, the DCSO does not renew its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. |