Steve Gill

Steve Gill
Basic facts
Organization:	•Gill Media, Inc.
Role:	CEO and Co-owner
Location:	Nashville, Tenn.
Education:	University of Tennessee-Knoxville, B.A. in History and a B.A. in Law; J.D. in History, University of Tennessee College of Law

Steve Gill is an attorney and CEO of Gill Media, Inc. based in Nashville, Tenn. He is also a political commentator and conservative talk show host, appearing on shows such as CNN and Fox News, and co-authored a book entitled “The Fred Factor: How Fred Thompson May Change The Face Of The '08 Campaign.”

Gill was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Tennessee. Gill was one of 16 delegates from Tennessee bound by state party rules to support Ted Cruz at the convention. Cruz suspended his campaign on May 3, 2016. At the time, he had approximately 546 bound delegates. For more on what happened to his delegates, see this page.

Career

Steve Gill received a B.A. in History and a B.A. in Law from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and then went on to obtain a J.D. in History from University of Tennessee College of Law in 1982.

In 1992, President George H.W. Bush appointed Gill to a White House Fellowship, and he acted as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for the U.S. Trade Representative in the Executive Office of the President. Gill’s fellowship role went on for the Bush and Clinton administrations.

Gill ran against Rep. Bart Gordon as the Republican nominee for one of Tennessee’s U.S. House of Representatives seats in 1994 and 1996. He started work as a radio talk host for Gaylord Entertainment’s WWTN in 2000. He moved to WLAC Nashville in June 2006 and started Gill Media, Inc. that same year, hosting the Steve Gill Show beginning in 2008. He worked at WLAC until February 2013, when he joined M924, LLC, a business consulting firm, as Vice President, and he continues to work at both M924, LLC and Gill Media, Inc.

Gill’s influence has been consistently recognized, as he was listed as part of Business Tennessee Magazine’s “100 Most Powerful People in Tennessee” as well as Talker Magazine’s “100 Most Important Talk Radio Hosts in America,” and was recognized twice as a “Hero of the Taxpayers” by Americans for Tax Reform. He has also received several Achievement in Radio (AIR) awards.

In addition to being an attorney and acting as CEO of Gill Media, Inc., Gill is a member of the International Advisory Board for the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development and an analyst for WKRN News 2 (ABC).

2016 Republican National Convention

See also: Republican National Convention, 2016

Gill was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Tennessee.

Delegate rules

See also: RNC delegate guidelines from Tennessee, 2016 and Republican delegates from Tennessee, 2016

Delegates from Tennessee to the 2016 Republican National Convention were elected directly by voters in the state primary election in March and approved by the State Executive Committee of the Tennessee Republican Party in April. Delegates from Tennessee to the national convention were bound for up to four ballots. All Tennessee delegates were bound on the first two ballots. On the third ballot, a presidential candidate needed to receive at least 20 percent of the total vote for his or her delegates to remain bound on the fourth ballot. Delegates were to be unbound after the fourth ballot.

Tennessee primary results

See also: Presidential election in Tennessee, 2016

Tennessee Republican Primary, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes	Delegates
Donald Trump	38.9%	332,823	33
Ted Cruz	24.7%	211,234	16
Marco Rubio	21.2%	181,059	9
Ben Carson	7.6%	64,855	0
John Kasich	5.3%	45,258	0
Jeb Bush	1.1%	9,548	0
Mike Huckabee	0.3%	2,418	0
Rand Paul	0.3%	2,349	0
Other	0.2%	1,849	0
Chris Christie	0.1%	1,254	0
Carly Fiorina	0.1%	717	0
Rick Santorum	0.1%	713	0
Jim Gilmore	0%	269	0
Lindsey Graham	0%	257	0
George Pataki	0%	189	0
Totals		854,792	58
Source: Tennessee Secretary of State and CNN

Delegate allocation

See also: 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules

Tennessee had 58 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 27 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's nine congressional districts). District-level delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the district vote in order to be eligible to receive any of a district's delegates. If a candidate won more than 66 percent of the vote in a district, he or she received all of the district's delegates. If the winning candidate in a district won between 20 and 66 percent of the district vote, he or she received two of the district's delegates; the second place finisher received the remaining delegate (if the second place finisher did not meet the 20 percent threshold, all three delegates were allocated to the first place finisher). If no candidate met the 20 percent threshold in a district, the top three finishers each received one of the district's delegates.

Of the remaining 31 delegates, 28 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated on a proportional basis; a candidate had to win at least 20 percent of the statewide primary vote in order to be eligible to receive any at-large delegates. If a candidate won more than 66 percent of the statewide primary vote, he or she received all of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.

See also

• Nashville, Tenn.

External links

• Steve Gill Facebook
• Steve Gill Twitter