Quin Evans-Segall

Quin Evans-Segall is an at-large member of the Nashville Metro Council in Tennessee. She assumed office on September 30, 2023. Her current term ends in 2027.

Evans-Segall ran for election for an at-large seat of the Nashville Metro Council in Tennessee. She won in the general runoff election on September 14, 2023.

Evans-Segall completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. Click here to read the survey answers.

Elections

2023

General runoff election

General runoff election for Nashville Metro Council At large (5 seats)

The following candidates ran in the general runoff election for Nashville Metro Council At large on September 14, 2023.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Delishia Porterfield (Nonpartisan)	14.4	49,588
✔	Quin Evans-Segall (Nonpartisan)	13.8	47,774
✔	Burkley Allen (Nonpartisan)	13.1	45,317
✔	Olivia Hill (Nonpartisan)	12.9	44,443
	Chris Cheng (Nonpartisan)	12.3	42,644
	Howard Jones (Nonpartisan)	11.5	39,632
	Jeff Syracuse (Nonpartisan)	10.7	37,035
	Russ Pulley (Nonpartisan)	10.6	36,507
	Other/Write-in votes	0.7	2,516

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 345,456
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General election

General election for Nashville Metro Council At large (5 seats)

The following candidates ran in the general election for Nashville Metro Council At large on August 3, 2023.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Zulfat Suara (Nonpartisan)	10.7	40,575
✔		Delishia Porterfield (Nonpartisan)	9.1	34,481
✔		Burkley Allen (Nonpartisan)	8.0	30,314
✔		Olivia Hill (Nonpartisan)	6.8	25,802
✔		Howard Jones (Nonpartisan)	6.7	25,327
✔		Quin Evans-Segall (Nonpartisan)	5.9	22,644
✔		Russ Pulley (Nonpartisan)	5.9	22,386
✔		Chris Cheng (Nonpartisan)	5.8	22,000
✔		Jeff Syracuse (Nonpartisan)	5.4	20,643
	Submit photo	Marcia Masulla (Nonpartisan)	5.3	20,275
	Submit photo	Yolanda Hockett (Nonpartisan)	5.2	19,799
		Arnold Hayes (Nonpartisan)	4.3	16,288
	Submit photo	Chris Crofton (Nonpartisan)	3.4	12,936
	Submit photo	Ronnie Greer Sr. (Nonpartisan)	3.0	11,349
	Submit photo	Tony Chapman (Nonpartisan)	2.7	10,290
		Stephen Downs (Nonpartisan)	2.6	9,998
	Submit photo	Deloris Vandivort (Nonpartisan)	2.4	9,005
	Submit photo	Gilbert Ramirez (Nonpartisan)	2.1	7,924
	Submit photo	Indrani Ray (Nonpartisan)	1.6	6,257
	Submit photo	Jonathan Williamson (Nonpartisan)	1.5	5,797
	Submit photo	Brian Hellwig (Nonpartisan)	1.3	5,115
		Other/Write-in votes	0.4	1,447

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 380,652
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Deborah Hickey (Nonpartisan)
Tim Horne (Nonpartisan)
Charles Townsend Sr. (Nonpartisan)

Note: Because Zulfat Suara received more than 10% of the vote in the general election, she won the election and did not need to advance to the general runoff. Four seats were elected in the general runoff election.^[1]

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Campaign themes

2023

Ballotpedia survey responses

Quin Evans-Segall completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2023. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Evans-Segall's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Quin Evans Segall is an attorney and advocate with more than 15 years of experience in public finance, real estate, and legislative matters. She currently serves as the Vice Chair for Nashville’s Industrial Development Board (IDB), where she uses her knowledge of infrastructure and finance to focus on to support Nashville’s workforce through housing, childcare, transit, and local business grants. Quin co-founded the gun reform coalition Voices for a Safer Tennessee and has been involved in numerous community and non-profit boards over the years, including her neighborhood association’s Steering Committee, where she currently serves as Beautification Chair. Quin is the daughter of two small business owners and grew up in Crieve Hall. Her mom owned her own law practice, and her dad was the President of Evans Glass Company, a three-generational, family business in Nashville. Throughout her life, Quin’s family showed her the value of service to others. Quin spent countless hours at the Glass Company as a kid, from joy rides in a spinning office chair to eventual intern and office worker; Quin learned how important small businesses are to this community. She now lives in Belmont-Hillsboro with her husband, Josh, their three kids, and many pets.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Affordable and attainable housing is a cornerstone of a thriving community. Beyond fully funding affordable housing solutions like the Barnes Fund and fostering stronger collaborations within Metro, we must also do the hard work of modernizing our outdated zoning code.
Transportation is crucial for our community. We must boost bus route frequencies and ensure every neighborhood has access to sidewalks and bike routes. We must expand our bike lane and greenway network for commuters, children, and non-drivers. Traffic calming should be available in neighborhoods where needed, enhancing overall safety and mobility. We need dedicated funding for transit.
Nashville’s parks are essential to the well-being of our communities, from signature landmarks like Centennial down to the smallest neighborhood pollinator pocket. We can increase access to green space by formalizing the process for private investments in our public parks and a program for the use of private spaces for public use; we increase access to parks and greenways, ensuring every resident is able to enjoy our great outdoors.

Community Question Featured local question

Did the COVID-19 pandemic change your approach to local policy issues? If so, please give us an example. If not, why?

The COVID-19 pandemic touched us all in some ways, and it certainly affects how we have to govern going forward. With respect to particular issues, as a mom of three small kids, I personally became even more passionate about early childhood care and the ways in which we support families.

Community Question Featured local question

Do you believe crime rates are changing? Where do you get your crime rate data from? Would you make any changes to existing public safety policy?

I believe that the actual data - where it is going up and coming down - is mixed, and I also believe that it does not matter what the data is if people do not feel safe. Everyone has a right to feel safe. We have to identify whey people do not feel safe and build better community to help foster actual and perceived safety.

Community Question Featured local question

Do you think the downtown area is healthy? What is your definition of a healthy downtown? What changes, if any, would you like to make?

Our downtown is thriving for tourists who want to have a fun time. It is not always working for residents who want to live, work and have fun downtown. There has to be a balance between the needs of our tourism economy and the needs of residents.

Community Question Featured local question

How important is it to involve residents in the government’s decision-making process? What plans do you have regarding resident involvement in this process?

It is fundamental! As an at-large council member, I will be in every district for community meetings regularly, and if meeting are not scheduled, I will make sure they get scheduled. On top of these meetings, we need to layer meetings to discuss growth and development, which will form the foundation to zoning code updates. We also need to layer meetings for transit planning. All of these meetings will work together to form the basis of resident-controlled decision making.

Community Question Featured local question

How should record requests from the public be handled? Do you have any policies around transparency and accountability you want to enact?

Typically these requests are governed by state and federal laws. As a local government, we need to comply quickly with all state and federal requirements.

Community Question Featured local question

How would you address crime and public safety? Do you have a different stance than current city council policy?

When it comes to public safety, we need to make sure we have enough officers to avoid mandatory overtime and the inability to make important HR decisions. We also need to invest in our fire department, social workers, mental health response personnel, alternative traffic enforcement, and other alternative responses so our police are not burdened with every call.
In addition to what we think of as "crime and public safety" funding, we have to work to make sure we reach the root cause of crime. To do so, we need to invest in activities for youth, trades training layered with ways to earn a living wage, and affordable housing and transit for all. When people have access to good paying jobs, jobs training, and free, fun activities, they do not need to find alternative ways to put food on their table and a roof over their head.

Community Question Featured local question

How would you balance the needs and desires of existing business and housing communities with new development? Would you take gentrification and displacement into consideration when planning neighborhood development?

Affordable and attainable housing is a cornerstone of a thriving community. Beyond fully funding affordable housing solutions like the Barnes Fund and fostering stronger collaborations within Metro, we must also do the hard work of modernizing our outdated zoning code. In updating the zoning code, we need to work in communities to ask them how they want to grow and how their needs can be met. The zoning should reflect those desires, which would allow for more housing consistent with the needs and desires of the community.

Community Question Featured local question

How would you set priorities and develop plans in a way that will reflect community values and goals?

As an at-large candidate, I will be in every district for community meetings regularly, and if meeting are not scheduled, I will make sure they get scheduled. I also will look to data, research, and other sources of best practices to see what creative and necessary solutions we can implement that are consistent with community needs and concerns.

Community Question Featured local question

What do you think about the city's current approach to public safety? Would you take any different positions?

Our public safety leadership is working hard to make sure we approach public safety in ways that keep everyone safe and respond to the needs of all Nashvillians. We need to continue to expand on this work. But we also need to make sure we are including fire and EMS in the umbrella of public safety and adequately growing that response service, which currently is undersized.

Community Question Featured local question

What do you think about the city's environmental health? Would you make any changes to current policy?

Our environmental health is not where it must be for a sustainable and resilient City. From transit to housing to parks to solid waste, we have to have better, more environmentally sustainable practices throughout our City.

Community Question Featured local question

What plans do you have regarding infrastructure?

We have to be more thoughtful in how we build out infrastructure. It requires consistency in budgeting so we finish the projects we plan. It also requires looking at alternative ways to fund infrastructure, such as improvement districts, dedicated transit funding, and TIFs.

Community Question Featured local question

What plans do you have regarding the police department? Would you make any changes from current policy?

Our police department leadership is working hard to make sure we approach policing in ways that keep everyone safe and respond to the needs of all Nashvillians. When it comes to public safety, we need to make sure we have enough officers to avoid mandatory overtime and the inability to make important HR decisions. We also need to continue to invest in our fire department, social workers, mental health response personnel, alternative traffic enforcement, and other alternative responses so our police are not burdened with every call.

Community Question Featured local question

What policies would you have implemented in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic? Why did you select those policies?

We knew very little about the pandemic when policies are implemented. While we can now look back and talk about best practices, we have to remember that we did not have that information at the time.
In addition, we need to focus on how to address the trauma of the pandemic. It is important we sufficiently fund our schools so kids get what they need to catch up. We also need to make sure those who suffered physically receive appropriate medical care, and that those who suffered emotionally - through loss or trauma - have access to resources to help them

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Quin believes that we have to create and maintain an affordable, resilient, and livable Nashville for all. This requires recognizing that Nashville has grown but our government has not risen to the challenges of our growing City. We have to make Metro government be as creative and caring as the people who live in Nashville. We have to make Nashville's government and infrastructure work for all Nashvillians.

Quin knows task ahead of us is not glamorous. The task ahead requires a commitment to constant engagement by Council, coalition building, and community conversations. The task ahead requires productive collaboration with regional and State partners. The task ahead requires specific attention to the missing parts of Nashville's government, the out-of-date parts of its government, and the parts of government that lead us to repeat our past mistakes. If we want our government to lead on affordable housing, transit, traffic, schools, and public safety, Quin Believes must fix the foundation on which these initiatives are built.

Today that foundation consists of missing programs, bad programs, budgeting issues, and failed relationships. We have to create government processes we have never before needed. We have to reform our outdated systems that currently lead to unnecessary backlogs. We have to fix our budgeting process so we take a long-term view of needs and plan for them. These systems will then support housing, transit, childcare, parks, and other infrastructure needs.

What qualities does this office possess that makes it a unique and important part of the state government and legal system?

I am currently running for Metro Council At-Large because Nashville needs an advocate, defender, and problem solver to get us back on the right track.

My tagline is “Quin Never Quits” because I will never stop fighting for the city I grew up in and call home! Nashville is unique and resilient, and we deserve elected officials who have our best interests at heart. It’s time that Nashville’s government starts serving the city in the same way as Nashvillians serve and care for each other. I would love to earn your support.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

My parents are huge influences on my life, as are my grandparents. Watching them work hard and serve others is an inspiration to me every day.

Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?

I absolutely love reading! There are way too many books and essays that have in some way shaped my philosophy and outlook to name them all here.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Being a good listener and someone who cares are the two most important qualities of any elected official. It is also important that elected officials be advocates and problem-solvers.

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

Quin is an advocate, defender and problem-solver. These qualities will make her successful. She has demonstrated these qualities in many ways:

Advocate
- As co-founder of gun reform non-profit, Voices for a Safer Tennessee, Quin organized 9000 community members for a 3-mile human chain from Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital to the State Capitol in the wake of the Covenant School shooting.
- For years, Quin served as the president of the Family Guidance Center of Alabama and continues to prioritize the well-being of women and children in her work.
- As the current Vice Chair of the Industrial Redevelopment Board, Quin advocates for continuous grant funding to help women and black-owned small businesses thrive.

Defender
- Quin has worked as an attorney and legal advocate for over 17 years and has a passion for equity, opportunity, and justice.
- Successfully helped change a state law to protect affordable housing for teachers, firefighters, and other public servants.
- Supporter of small businesses with experience launching her own woman-owned and -operated legal support services company.

Problem Solver
- Collaborated with Metro and developers to approve over 500 new affordable housing units in Cleveland Park and Bellshire Area while serving as Vice Chair of the Industrial Development Board.
- Supported and approved the establishment of the North Nashville Transit Center to enhance neighborhood connectivity.
- Currently collaborating with trusted neighborhood partners on initiatives to eliminate food deserts and improve childcare access across the city.

- Partnered with the Tennessee Environmental Council and Nashville Beautification and Environment Commission to create Portland Park, a refuge for bees, butterflies, and other pollinators

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

Council At-Large members should be leaders in the community and County when it comes to solving problems and making sure residents are given opportunities to be heard and helped. Council At-Large members also need to proactively work with the mayor's office to help shape community vision and goals. Finally, Council At-Large members must reach out to other jurisdictions to make sure we are working on regional issues in a regional way.

What legacy would you like to leave?

I want to make sure the City I know and love - the one I have chosen to raise my family in - is one where everyone can live and thrive.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

The first event I remember was watching the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests on TV the summer I turned 8.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

I worked at a summer camp on Percy Priest lake. I did it for 2 summers, and it was incredibly fun! I still have friends today from camp.

What is your favorite book? Why?

I love reading (I double majored in English and Political Science!) but have never had a favorite book.

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

Definitely some type of super hero, though the power I would have would depend on the day!

What was the last song that got stuck in your head?

I have 3 kids so they tend to pick our playlists these days! Rain, Rain Go Away is the most recent song to get stuck in my head.

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

Like a lot of moms, I found the pandemic incredibly difficult. When the world shut down, I had a 6-week-old newborn, as well as 4 and 8 year olds. Suddenly I was working full time with 3 kids at home. We were lucky to have our health and our jobs, but it was still really hard to get through.

Are there any little-known powers or responsibilities held by this office that you believe more people should be aware of?

The at-large council members represent us all and have a duty to focus on the holistic ways we can improve the lives of all Nashvillians. I will work to do just that.

Do you believe that it's beneficial for holders of this office to have previous experience in government or politics?

I believe experience comes in all forms, not just elected office. As an attorney who has represented governments and serves as Vice Chair of the Industrial Development Board, I have over 15 years experience in infrastructure and government needs. This experience is beneficial to being on council even though it is not a prior office.

What kind of skills or expertise do you believe would be the most helpful for the holders of this office to possess?

Being a good listener and someone who cares are the two most important qualities of any elected official. It is also important that elected officials be advocates and problem-solvers. Having a thorough working knowledge of Nashville is also critically important.

Tell us your favorite joke.

Knock, knock.

Who is there?
Boo.
Boo who?

Don't cry, it is just a joke!

What organizations or individuals have endorsed your campaign?

Central Labor Council

Davidson County Young Democrats
The Equity Alliance
International Association of Firefighters
LiUNA - Laborer's Union
Metro Nashville Education Association (MNEA)
Nashville Justice League
National Building and Construction Trades
National Women's Political Caucus
International Union of Painters and Allied Trades
Planned Parenthood
Plumbers and Pipefitters
SEIU
TIRCC
Aftyn Behn, Candidate - House District 51
Alex Jahangir
Bob Freeman, State Representative
Bob Mendes, Council Member At-Large
Brenda Gadd, Council-Elect District 24
Caleb Hemmer, State Representative
Caroline Randall Williams
Chris Crofton
Dave Rosenberg, Council Member District 35
Diego Eguiarte
Emily Benedict, Council Member District 7
Erin Evans, Council Member District 12
Erin O’Hara Block, School Board District 8
Fiona Prine
Freda Player, School Board District 17
Ginny Welsch, Council Member 16
Hal Cato
Ingrid McIntyre
John Ray Clemmons, State Representative
Lonnell Matthews, Jr., Juvenile Court Clerk
Mary Mancini
Maryam Abolfazli
Megan Barry
Mel Fowler Green
Rollin Horton, Council-Elect District 20
Russ Bradford, Council Member District 13
Sandra Sepulveda, Council Member District 30
Sean Parker, Council Member District 5
Terry Vo, Council-Elect District 17
Thom Druffel, Council Member District 23
Tom Cash, Council Member District 18
Vincent Dixie, State Representative
Whitney Pastorek

Zach Young, Council Member, District 10

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↑ The Tennessean, "Nashville election results: Zulfat Suara wins At-large Council seat, runoff set for remaining seats," August 3, 2023

[RunoffRule-1] The Tennessean, "Nashville election results: Zulfat Suara wins At-large Council seat, runoff set for remaining seats," August 3, 2023

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