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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.
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In unusual move, state employs jury consultant
The Maryland State Prosecutor enlisted a private consultant to help select the jury that will weigh the theft charges against Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, a potentially costly move that is unusual for prosecutors in criminal cases. Ronald Matlon, a...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Towson University, Lawyers, State Budgets, Regional Authority
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Gift cards to Dixon from 3rd developer alleged
The jury of nine women and three men selected for Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon's criminal theft trial will begin work Thursday morning, but first a judge will weigh new allegations involving another batch of gift cards said to have been donated by a...Tags: Judges, Demographics, MySpace, Lawyers, Veterans Day
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Baltimore closes largest a-rab stable, seizes 19 horses
Horses that pulled wagons loaded with strawberries and cantaloupe were put out to pasture Tuesday after city animal control and humane society officials closed the largest stable that had housed the animals. Baltimore City Health Department officials, in...Tags: Public Officials, Animals, Horse (animal), Government
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Picking Baltimore mayor's jury:
I met someone at a party once, and when he told me where he worked, I asked if he knew this friend of a friend who also worked there. Mike Somebody, I said, an Asian guy. Oh, my new acquaintance tsk-tsked, I don't really see people as one race or...Tags: Regional Authority, Prosecution, Lawyers
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Jury seated in Dixon theft trial
Baltimore Sun reportersA jury of nine women and three men will decide the guilt or innocence of Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon. The jurors were seated Tuesday afternoon after a lengthy selection process in the criminal theft case. Six alternates were also seated. Dixon's lead...Tags: Campaign Finance, Regional Authority, Theft, Court Preliminary, Prosecution
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Dixon theft trial opens with plea of not guilty
Baltimore Sun reportersMayor Sheila Dixon stood before a judge for the first time Monday, the beginning of a long day of jury selection in her criminal theft trial that will resume this morning. After the mayor's lawyers entered a plea of not guilty on her behalf, much of...Tags: Campaign Finance, Regional Authority, Theft, Court Preliminary, Trials
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Impressions of court: Dixon's 4-inch heels, sense of inevitability
After watching Mayor Sheila Dixon stand for four hours straight at the judge's bench, next to the mostly male lawyers prosecuting her and those defending her, I thought of that famous line about Ginger Rogers. The one about how she did everything her...Tags: Judges, Ginger Rogers, Lawyers, William Donald Schaefer, Fred Astaire
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Mayor Schaefer kept it clean during dirty times
The irony is 7-foot-2 and made of bronze: A statue of William Donald Schaefer goes up along the Inner Harbor promenade just a week or so before the current mayor of Baltimore goes on trial, accused of stealing gift cards intended for the needy. What a...Tags: Corporate Crime, Sculpture, Bribery, Theft, Trials
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Dixon deserves support
As an African-American woman and someone who cares deeply about the health of the city of Baltimore, I am asking for your presence to be felt and your voice to be heard during the trial of Mayor Sheila Dixon. Of course, it is to be expected that The...Tags: Civil and Public Service, Regional Authority, Trials, Government
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Taxpayers shouldn't fund Dixon legal fees
Taxpayers should never have to pay for Mayor Sheila Dixon's many, high priced attorneys. She got herself into this mess, and she needs to be responsible for getting herself out of it. She has more than enough perks from her job already -- for once she... -
1st act of Dixon trial: jury selection
Today begins the process of choosing 12 Baltimore residents who will decide whether or not their mayor is a criminal.
As Sheila Dixon's theft trial gets under way, jury selection is not only the curtain-raiser, but also, perhaps, the most important act,...Tags: Judges, Corporate Crime, Al Sharpton, Lawyers, Regional Authority
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Dixon pleads not guilty to theft charges
Mayor Sheila Dixon is spending her day poring over hundreds of jury questionnaires as she and her attorneys select the 12 citizens to sit for her theft trial.
In her first trip to court since being indicted in January, the mayor walked through the...Tags: Corporate Crime, Judges, Al Sharpton, Lawyers, Regional Authority
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