Highlights
Sheila Dixon is the 48th mayor of Baltimore and a former member of the Baltimore City Council. She is the first African-American female to serve as the council's president and the city's first female mayor. Dixon won the Democratic mayoral primary in 2007, prevailing over her main challenger, City Councilman Keiffer J. Mitchell Jr., with 63% of the vote. She easily defeated Republican Elbert Henderson in the general election.
Dixon has recently been the focus of an investigation into spending irregularities at City Hall. The probe, which dates to 2006, has examined possible gifts to the mayor from people doing business with the city and her votes on contracts as City Council presiden...
Dixon has recently been the focus of an investigation into spending irregularities at City Hall. The probe, which dates to 2006, has examined possible gifts to the mayor from people doing business with the city and her votes on contracts as City Council presiden...
Sheila Dixon is the 48th mayor of Baltimore and a former member of the Baltimore City Council. She is the first African-American female to serve as the council's president and the city's first female mayor. Dixon won the Democratic mayoral primary in 2007, prevailing over her main challenger, City Councilman Keiffer J. Mitchell Jr., with 63% of the vote. She easily defeated Republican Elbert Henderson in the general election.
Dixon has recently been the focus of an investigation into spending irregularities at City Hall. The probe, which dates to 2006, has examined possible gifts to the mayor from people doing business with the city and her votes on contracts as City Council president that benefited her sister's employer. Dixon's former campaign chairman and the owner of a company that employed her sister have pleaded guilty on tax charges as part of the probe. A raid on the mayor's private residence by state prosecutors on June 17, 2008, marked a more aggressive shift in the investigation, which has included subpoenas issued to city offices and employees.
Dixon attended Baltimore City public schools and is a graduate of Northwestern High School. She holds a bachelor's degree from Towson University and a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University. She began her career as a kindergarten teacher at Steuart Hill Elementary School and as an adult education instructor with the Head Start program. Dixon worked for 17 years as an international trade specialist with the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development. In 1986, she was elected to the Baltimore City State Central Committee representing the 40th Legislative District. In 1987, she won a seat on the Baltimore City Council representing the 4th Council District, where she served for 12 years. She became City Council president in 1999.
Twice divorced, Dixon is a single mom raising her two children, Jasmine and Joshua. She is the aunt of professional basketball player Juan Dixon.
Dixon has recently been the focus of an investigation into spending irregularities at City Hall. The probe, which dates to 2006, has examined possible gifts to the mayor from people doing business with the city and her votes on contracts as City Council president that benefited her sister's employer. Dixon's former campaign chairman and the owner of a company that employed her sister have pleaded guilty on tax charges as part of the probe. A raid on the mayor's private residence by state prosecutors on June 17, 2008, marked a more aggressive shift in the investigation, which has included subpoenas issued to city offices and employees.
Dixon attended Baltimore City public schools and is a graduate of Northwestern High School. She holds a bachelor's degree from Towson University and a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University. She began her career as a kindergarten teacher at Steuart Hill Elementary School and as an adult education instructor with the Head Start program. Dixon worked for 17 years as an international trade specialist with the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development. In 1986, she was elected to the Baltimore City State Central Committee representing the 40th Legislative District. In 1987, she won a seat on the Baltimore City Council representing the 4th Council District, where she served for 12 years. She became City Council president in 1999.
Twice divorced, Dixon is a single mom raising her two children, Jasmine and Joshua. She is the aunt of professional basketball player Juan Dixon.
Displaying items 1-12 of 350
» View baltimoresun.com items only
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-20
•
Next >
-
November was deadliest month of '08
A flurry of shootings and killings over the weekend capped Baltimore's deadliest month of 2008, prompting city officials and police to consider new tactics to curtail a spike of violence that threatens to undermine gains they have been publicizing all...Tags: Murder, Gang Activity, Law Enforcement, Charles Village, Christianity
-
Forget crime — Jablow's got better stories
Murder and mayhem were Matt Jablow's bread and butter as a WBAL newsman, Baltimore police spokesman and America's Most Wanted producer. Now he's offering more life-affirming fare as a "Webumentarian." Jablow left America's Most Wanted in July to start a...Tags: Public Employees, Regional Authority, Christmas, Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Game Playing
-
City health chief part of Obama transition team
Baltimore Health Commissioner Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein will be reviewing policies at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as a member of President-elect Barack Obama's transition team, said Nick Shapiro, an Obama spokesman. The city health...Tags: 2009 U.S. Presidential Transition, Healthcare Policies, Henry A Waxman
-
Depression dwarfs our current woes
Recently Mayor Sheila Dixon characterized the current economic crisis as "worse than the Great Depression" ("Mayor orders cuts," Nov. 15). This is simply not accurate. During the Great Depression, the unemployment rate reached more than 25 percent....Tags: Great Depression, Unemployment, Government Health Care, Medicare, Medicaid
-
Away from the camera, into the crisis for WJZ's Sher
Richard Sher, who announced his departure from WJZ this week after 33 years of reporting and anchoring, says he isn't completely done with the news biz. I'm not sure he was ever completely in it. Among the "many accomplishments" listed on his new Web...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Ceremonies, Summer Olympics, Government
-
Bank of America, Zurich planning moves from city locations
Two large Baltimore employers are planning to either move some jobs from the city or sell their buildings, creating new office vacancies in a difficult real estate market. Bank of America will move a portion of its city operations and an estimated 200...Tags: National Government, Downtown (Baltimore, Maryland), Public Officials, Harbor East, Banking
-
Dixon tells residents she's troubled by rising violence
Baltimore is in the midst of its worst stretch of violence "in a long time," Mayor Sheila Dixon told a group of residents tonight in the Southwestern part of the city. "It disturbs me the same way it disturbs you," Dixon told residents of the Southwest...Tags: Murder, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control
-
Dallas V. Smith
Dallas Varden Smith, a retired Baltimore businessman who had owned and operated several clothing stores, died Thursday of cancer at his Pikesville home. He was 73. Mr. Smith was born in Baltimore and raised in Pigtown and on West Lexington Street. He was...Tags: Atlantic City (Atlantic, New Jersey), National or Ethnic Minorities, Pikesville, Pigtown, Randallstown
-
Student slain
A 15-year-old student was stabbed and killed outside his West Baltimore middle school yesterday afternoon, the first killing of a youth on city school grounds during school hours in more than 20 years.
Police got a call for an injured person shortly...Tags: Public Officials, Georgetown, People, Juvenile Delinquency, Government
-
School officials say help was offered to two teens involved in fatal stabbing
In recent days, teachers and administrators at William H. Lemmel Middle School learned of a rift between two boys they thought were friends. They tried, unsuccessfully, to get their parents to come in for a conflict-resolution session.
And then on...Tags: Lawyers, Family, Assault, Murder, Metal and Mineral
-
By popular vote, dolphin will be named Bayley
The voters have spoken and the nearly 4-month-old female dolphin at the National Aquarium in Baltimore finally has a name. It's Bayley. Late yesterday morning - with the assistance of an aquarium dolphin - Mayor Sheila Dixon did the honors and read the...Tags: National Aquarium Baltimore
-
Freewheeling art
Like most cities, Baltimore offers urban cyclists a fairly limited range of parking options - a lonely metal stanchion outside a coffee shop, perhaps, or an innocuous group rack outside an office building. If it offers anything at all.
But starting...Tags: Upton Sinclair, Tupac Shakur, Edgar Allan Poe, Energy Saving, Ray Lewis
Dec 2, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 30, 2008
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Nov 25, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 26, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 26, 2008
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Nov 26, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 25, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 25, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 22, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 25, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 23, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 23, 2008
|Story| Baltimore Sun
