Howard Gentry Jr.

Montag, 04. Februar 1952

Howard Gentry Jr. (born 1952) is an American politician. Howard Gentry serves the Metropolitan Government of Nashville as the Criminal Court Clerk of Davidson County in the Twentieth Judicial District and was elected Nashville's first African American Constitutional Officer. In this capacity, he is responsible for performing the clerical duties for the operation of the General Sessions and State Trial Criminal Courts. A Nashville native, Gentry was elected three times to countywide public office. He was a Metro Council member-at-large before being elected Metro Nashville-Davidson County’s first African American vice mayor. He was reelected in 2003. In 2007, Gentry was a candidate for Mayor and narrowly missed the run-off by less than 300 votes.