George A. Dean

George Dean is an attorney practicing law in Nashville, Tennessee. His practice concentrates in the area of land use planning and zoning law. He graduated from the Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1979 and began practicing with Nashville's Metropolitan Government representing the Metro Board of Zoning Appeals, the Metro Planning Commission, the Metro Codes Administration, and the Metro Historical Zoning Commission. In private practice, Mr. Dean has been involved in a large number of land use planning cases, representing both governmental interests and private parties. Many of the cases in which he has been involved have been extremely significant in terms of the development of land use planning law in Tennessee.

Mr. Dean was the original author of Legal Aspects of Codes Administration published by the International Code Council.

He enjoys writing, reading, computers and chess and openly acknowledges the somewhat mundane nature of the exquisitely small area of the law that he works in. He remembers a Judge, who when asked by a group of young students, if they could come into the courtroom and watch the zoning trial, replied, "You sure can, but this stuff is so boring that you'll be asleep in just a few moments." The Judge was right, but it's all George knows.