
Mayor Karl Dean today announced Nashville native Charlie Williams will serve as assistant director of the Mayor's Office of Economic and Community Development.
Williams will serve under director Paul Ney, who was appointed in December, and alongside Marilyn Edwards, director of special events. He is currently a business banking relationship manager with First Tennessee Bank, which he joined in 2003. Before that, he ran his own business involved in international trade for six years.
Williams received an M.B.A. from the University of Oklahoma after graduating summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee. He is also a 1991 graduate of Montgomery Bell Academy.
Williams' community involvement includes sitting on the boards of Fannie Battle Day Home for Children, the Margaret Maddox YMCA and the Neighborhoods Resource Center. He is also a past member of the Board of Zoning Appeals.
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