Dickson voters picked one challenger and one incumbent in the only two contested races for seats on the City Council during the Thursday, Sept. 14, municipal election.
Banker Brett Reynolds unseated 13-year incumbent Betty Lou Alsobrooks in the First Ward race 252-220 (53%-47%), according to the unofficial results released by the Dickson County Election Office. Reynolds received 183 early votes and 69 votes on election day to 168 early and 52 election day votes for Alsobrooks.
A real estate agent and retired teacher, Alsobrooks was first appointed to the City Council in 2010 to complete the term of Bob Rial, who resigned after being elected Dickson County mayor. She was elected to full terms in 2011, 2015 and 2019.
A relationship manager with FirstBank who previously worked at TriStar Bank, Pinnacle Financial Partners and Farmers and Merchants Bank, Reynolds was successful in his first run for public office.
Twelve-year incumbent Horace Perkins III handily won a fourth term representing the Third Ward with 70 percent of the vote 131-54 over challenger Clayton Ellis. Perkins and Ellis both previously represented the 8th District on the Dickson County Commission. After running unsuccessfully for county mayor in 2010, Perkins won his first bid for a seat on the City Council in 2011 and was re-elected in 2015 and 2019. Ellis ran unsuccessfully for Dickson County Clerk in 2010 and has served on the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals since 2012.
In an uncontested race, former Dickson County Commissioner Shane Chandler won the open Second Ward seat on the council with 100 votes. Two-term incumbent Robby Harmon, who has served as vice mayor for six years, decided not to seek re-election. A mechanical inspector for the Greater Dickson Gas Authority, Chandler represented the Third District on the county commission, served as a judicial commissioner and ran unsuccessfully for constable in 2004 and the Dickson County School Board in 2008. He finished second to Councilman Kyle Sanders in a three-way race with former Mayor J. Dan Buckner in 2021 for the other Second Ward seat left open when Joey Turbeville did not seek re-election.
In the Fourth Ward, 16-year incumbent Dwight Haynes received 56 votes in an unopposed race for his fifth term. Employed by the Tennessee Valley Authority and pastor of Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Haynes is currently the longest-tenured member of the City Council.
Dickson Mayor Don L. Weiss Jr. received 730 votes in his uncontested bid for an eighth term. Weiss served six years on the City Council from the First Ward (1987-93) before becoming mayor in December 1993 to complete the term of Tom Waychoff, who resigned to become president of the Dickson County Chamber of Commerce. Weiss won his first election to a full mayoral term in 1995 and in December will mark 30 years as mayor, longer than anyone in the city’s history by 14 years.
When Weiss begins his new term, he will begin his 37th year in elected office, the longest of anyone in the City of Dickson’s 125-year history. The late Robert Blue served a total of 36 years on the City Council and currently holds that distinction.
The unofficial election results show 577 early and absentee ballots and 245 voters going to the polls on election day for a total turnout of 822, or just 8.65 percent of the city’s 9,498 registered voters. More than 70 percent of the votes were cast during the 12-day early voting period.
The election results remain unofficial until certified by the Dickson County Election Commission, which is scheduled to meet Sept. 26.
The winners of Thursday’s municipal election will be sworn in to begin their four-year terms at the Oct. 2 City Council meeting.
The remaining four seats on the City Council held by Jason Epley (1st Ward), Kyle Sanders (2nd Ward), Stacey Levine (3rd Ward) and Michael Outlaw (4th Ward) will be on the ballot Sept. 11, 2025.
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