Todd Kaestner Announces Bid for County Mayor

Former Williamson County commissioner and health care executive Todd Kaestner on Tuesday launched his bid for county mayor.

Mayor Rogers Anderson announced in August that he would not seek reelection in the position he held as the longest-serving county mayor in Williamson County history. Kaestner is the first to enter the race for the open spot.

Kaestner will be on the Republican Primary ballot, for which the election will be hosted in May. He has seeded his campaign with $250,000, according to a press release, and will leave his position as executive vice president at Brookdale Senior Living at the end of September to focus on his campaign full-time.

A alumnus of Vanderbilt University and the University of Louisville, Kaestner also spent five years as a Williamson County commissioner.

“Our neighbors to the north in Davidson County have a laundry list of problems: crime, unfettered illegal immigration, high taxes — the list goes on. We must protect Williamson County by ensuring Nashville’s problems never become our own,” he said in a statement, echoing sentiments from U.S. Rep Andy Ogles.

Kaestner continued, “With a lean county government, low taxes, smart growth and infrastructure, safe streets, and world-class public and private schools, we will protect Williamson County from external threats and those who seek to change it. We will preserve what makes it the best place in America to live, raise a family, and do business, while creating a community where prosperity for all is achieved.”