The 2002 Rich List focuses on the 10 wealthiest people in Middle Tennessee. Their combined net worth is, according to Nashville Post estimates, $6.4 billion. That equals more than two-thirds the money collected annually from Tennessee taxpayers.

The past year wasn’t an especially enriching one for the city’s wealthy. Fortunately for three of our richest and for the local economy, the health care industry continued its strong performance in the midst of listlessness in much of the rest of the economy. And one member of the Top Ten, Gordon Inman, saw his net worth soar on the back of Franklin Financial Corp.’s rocketing share price. For people like Inman, much of whose wealth is tied up in publicly traded stocks and real estate, it’s not too difficult to gain a reasonable approximation of net worth using publicly available documents. Generally though, ferreting out the information to estimate a private citizen’s net worth isn’t an easy task.

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