Nashville is the capital of the U. S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County.

The population of Davidson County as a whole, including all municipalities, was 626, 681.

In 1806, Nashville was incorporated as a city and became the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee.

This is the case in the City and County of San Francisco, CA, and in the City and County of Philadelphia, PA. A similar arrangement is found in the " Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County " where the metropolis of Nashville has merged into the county of Davidson ( but, other than Nashville, a few municipalities-such as Belle Meade-still exist with some administrative functions ).

* Davidson County, North Carolina-northwest

* Lakewood, Tennessee, a city in Davidson County

** Lakewood Commercial District, listed on the NRHP in Davidson County, Tennessee

Some of those members are University of North Carolina at Asheville ( 1984-present ), Davidson College ( 1990-1992 ), Liberty University ( 1991-present ), University of Maryland, Baltimore County ( 1992-1998 ), University of North Carolina at Greensboro ( 1992-1997 ), Towson University ( 1992-1995 ), Elon University ( 1999-2003 ), High Point University ( 1999-present ) and Birmingham – Southern College ( 2000-2007 ).

Construction, designated as Section 2A, giving a partial cloverleaf interchange to County Route 622, a trumpet interchange to Frelinghuysen Avenue ( the access to Busch Campus ) and a partial cloverleaf to County Route 609 ( Metlars Lane ) and Davidson Road.

* Davidson County ( west )

* Davidson County ( north )

* Davidson County ( southwest )

Rutherford County was formed in 1803 from parts of Davidson, Williamson and Wilson counties, and named in honor of Griffith Rutherford ( 1721 – 1805 ).

* Davidson County ( northwest )

* Davidson County ( south )

Davidson County is a county located in the U. S. state of Tennessee.

In 1963, the City of Nashville and the Davidson County government merged, so the county government is now known as the " Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County ," or " Metro Nashville " for short.

A Davidson County Chancery Court Judge settled the litigation by ordering a new election be held March 15, 2011, on which date residents in Lakewood voted 458 to 447 to surrender their charter and merge services with Metro-Nashville

A few months later on August 2nd, The Davidson County Chancery Court approval a Final Agreed Order that establish joint ownership between the University and Crystal Bridges through the newly established Stieglitz Art Collection, LLC.

Davidson Hall, Murray Hall, Geddes Court, Alexander Court and Muirhead House.

The College has a second campus in Davie County in the city of Mocksville, as well as the Uptown Lexington Education Center, located within a few blocks of the Arts Center of Davidson County and the historic Court House.

Notable contributors to this edition include: Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, who provided some twenty articles on legal topics including " Common Law ", " Contract ", " Corpus Delicti ", " Courts of England and the United States ", " Criminal Law ", " Equity ", " Evidence ", " Jury ", " Law ", " Natural Law ", and " Usury "; John Pickering, who wrote " Agrarian Law ", " Americanism ", " Indian Languages ", and part of " Accents "; and John Davidson Godman, who agreed to contribute articles on natural history, but his work was prematurely ended when he died of tuberculosis in 1830.

* “ Scheme-Content Dualism and Empiricism ”, in Lewis E. Hahn, ed., The Philosophy of Donald Davidson ( Open Court, Chicago and Lasalle, 1999 ), pp. 87 – 104

Billy Graham, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Lt. Col. Oliver North, Steve Forbes, Leonard Davidson, former US Senator Jesse Helms, Sam Donaldson, John R. Rice, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, CEO William S. Simon, Elisabeth Elliot ( wife of the late missionary Jim Elliot ), Skip Erickson, Freddie Gage, Adrian Rogers, governor Tim Kaine, Sean Hannity, Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Pastors ; Mel White, Mark Driscoll, Josh Mcdowell, Miles McPherson, Rick Warren, Steven Furtick and Francis Chan, Entertainers / Athletes in pro-wrestler Lex Luger, Bobby Bowden, Lou Holtz, Carrie Prejean, Allan Houston, and Candace Cameron Bure, Douglas Gresham, Gianna Jessen, Clint Hubbard and 2008 Presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul.

The Pistons court was previously named the " William Davidson Court ", in honor of the late owner, prior to the home opener on October 28, 2009 ; however Davidson's signature, along with the retired numbers, were removed from the hardwood when Tom Gores took over the Palace ownership, and were re-retired instead atop the Palace rafters as replacement banners.

The trial of Terrence Davidson started on May the 22nd in Belfast Crown Court.

In 1969, while assigned as commanding General of the Army training center at Fort Ord, California, Davidson was the respondent in the United States Supreme Court decision Parisi v. Davidson.

Davidson was educated at the Banister Court School in Southampton and the Whitgift School in Croydon, moving there to live with his maternal aunts and grandmother.

Davidson won a temporary order from the High Court to prohibit his arrest.

Parisi v. Davidson, 405 U. S. 34 ( 1972 ), was a United States Supreme Court case resulting in the grant of habeas corpus relief to a soldier, Joseph Parisi, seeking an honorable discharge as a conscientious objector.

Indeed, sense-data have been dismissed by some philosophers of mind, such as Donald Davidson, as mythological entities that are more troublesome than the entities that they were intended to replace.

As a result, Davidson was first removed from fleet command, and then eventually dismissed from the navy.

* 2003 – Alan Davidson, British author ( b. 1924 )

* Davidson, Neil, Discovering the Scottish Revolution, 1692-1746, Pluto Press, London, England ( 2003 ).

* 1917 – Donald Davidson, American philosopher ( d. 2003 )

* March 30 – Alan Davidson, British author ( d. 2003 )

Davidson County gained national attention when Gerald Hege, Sheriff from 1995 – 2003, became a minor celebrity for his unconventional prisoner treatment methods.

He was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and educated at Davidson College and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law, where he has taught Law and Literature as an adjunct faulty member since 2003.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

* Donald Davidson ( philosopher ) ( 1917 – 2003 ), American philosopher

Farr is also a designer of America's Cup competitors, including New Zealand's entries in 1986 ( co-designed with Ron Holland and Laurie Davidson ) and 2000, and Larry Ellison's United States's BMW Oracle Racing Challenger in 2003 ( accepted as Challenger of Record for the 2007 Cup ).

Nicolas Freeling, born Nicolas Davidson ( March 3, 1927 – July 20, 2003 ), was a British crime novelist, best known as the author of the Van der Valk series of detective novels.

* " Difficult Writings: AIDS and the Activist Aesthetic in Reinaldo Arenas ' Before Night Falls ," By: Diana Davidson, Atenea, 2003 Dec ; 23 ( 2 ): 53-71.

* Understanding the Economic Burden of Scholarly Publishing, by Cathy N. Davidson ( 2003 )

Alan Eaton Davidson ( 30 March 1924 – 2 December 2003 ) was a British diplomat and historian best known for his writing and editing on food and gastronomy.

In 2003 Davidson was awarded the Erasmus Prize.

The review was commissioned by Jane Davidson of the National Assembly for Wales in June 2003 and undertaken by a group led by Professor Richard Daugherty from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

In 2003 Aqil Davidson launched the indie label Control Records, and continues to perform under the name EmperA.

Since 2003, he has served as an appointee of the Governor on the Board of Trustees of Davidson County Community College.

* In 2003, the Memphis Adam's Mark was sold to a joint venture of Dallas-based Crow Holdings, manager of the real estate holdings of the Trammell Crow family, and Wilton D. ' Chick ' Hill, the president of Memphis-based Davidson Hotel Co.

Former Commissioners include: DeForest Soaries, Jr. ( 2003 – 2005 ); Ray Martinez, III ( 2003 – 2006 ); Paul S. DeGregorio ( 2003 – 2007 ); Caroline Hunter ( 2007 – 2008 ); Rosemary E. Rodriguez ( 2007 – 2009 ); Gracia Hillman ( 2003-2010 ); Donetta Davidson ( 2005-2011 ); Gineen Bresso ( 2008-2011 ).

From 1998 through 2003, Davidson served as a host of the annual Tournament of Roses Parade.