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Nelson William Wolff (born 1940) is a politician from San Antonio, Texas. He represented Bexar County as a Democrat in the Texas House of Representatives from 1971 to 1973 and then the Texas Senate from 1973 to 1975. He served on the San Antonio City Council as the representative of Council District 8 and then as mayor of San Antonio from 1991〔(San Antonio picks Wolff )〕 to 1995 and currently serves as Bexar County Judge. Wolff was initially appointed to this position in 2001 to succeed Cyndi Taylor Krier, a Republican, who resigned to accept an appointment as a regent of the University of Texas System. Wolff has since been elected to this position three times. In January 2012, he announced he would seek a fourth full term in 2014.〔''San Antonio Express-News,'' January 17, 2012. Gonzalez, John W. "Wolff to seek re-election as county judge in 2014" ()〕 to which he was elected once more. Wolff is the author of four books. In "Challenge of Change," Wolff describes his experience in the Texas Legislature and his participation in the 1974 Constitutional Convention which he largely brought about. In "Baseball for Real Men" Wolff reflects on life and his love of the game. "Mayor" is a memoir of San Antonio politics focusing on his time in City Hall. In ''Transforming San Antonio'' (Trinity University Press) Wolff gives an insider's view on signature economic-development projects with which he was involved: the AT&T Center, a Toyota factory, the PGA Village, and the San Antonio River Walk extension. He is married to Tracy Wolff and has four children (Kevin, Lyn Marie, Scott, and Matthew) and two stepchildren. His oldest son, Kevin Wolff, a Republican, serves with him on the Bexar County Commissioners' Court as Commissioner for Precinct Three. Nelson Wolff is only the second person to serve as both the Mayor of San Antonio and County Judge of Bexar County. (The first was Bryan Callaghan, Jr., who became mayor in 1885 and county judge in 1892.)〔Wolff, Nelson W. ''Transforming San Antonio: An Insiders View of the AT&T Center, Toyota, the PGA Village, and the River Walk Extension.'', Trinity University Press, 2008〕 Wolff is interested in baseball, poker, cigars, and is a lifelong reader with an extensive collection of books. With his late father and two brothers, he participated in and owned several businesses, most notably Sun Harvest Farms grocery stores and Green Fields Market, a health foods and organic grocery store in San Antonio, Texas, which Wolff sold in 2011. He is a graduate of St. Mary's University and St. Mary's University School of Law. Wolff is working with the commissioners court to restore the former Hot Wells hotel, spa, and bathhouses, which flourished in the first two decades of the 20th century, along the San Antonio River in the southside of San Antonio. In October 2015, the commissioners authorized $4 million to begin the partial restoration of the facility, which once attracted celebrities from throughout the nation.〔John W. Gonzalez, "Hot Wells poised to spring alive again: County OKs first phase of improvements for new park", ''San Antonio Express-News'', October 10, 2015, pp. 1, A12〕 Nelson W. Wolff Municipal Stadium, home field of the San Antonio Missions located off Texas State Highway 151 near the intersection with Interstate 410, is named in his honor. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nelson Wolff」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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