Ronnie Dunn is one of the twelve nominees for the 2012 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Dunn is nominated in the Singer/Songwriter category. Other nominees include Brooks & Dunn partner Kix Brooks, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Larry Gatlin.

Dunn got his start in music as a country singer in Tulsa for nearly two decades, writing songs like “Neon Moon” and “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” as a solo artist before using them for Brooks & Dunn. He also wrote “She’s Not The Cheatin’ Kind”, “She Used To Be Mine” and “Hard Working Man” and co-wrote “Brand New Man”, “Working On My Next Broken Heart”, “Cowgirls Don’t Cry”, “Ain’t No Way To Go”, “Believe”, “Play Something Country”, “Red Dirt Road”, “A Man This Lonely”, “Whiskey Under The Bridge”, “Little Miss Honky Tonk” and “Proud Of The House We Built”.

Two nominees from the Songwriter category and one from the Songwriter/Artist category will be honored with induction on Sunday, October 7 at the Hall of Fame Dinner and Induction Ceremony.

If chosen for induction, Dunn would become the twentieth Oklahoman in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, joining Gene Autry (1970), Johnny Bond (1970), Albert E. Brumley (1970), Floyd Tillman (1970), Merle Travis (1970), Bob Wills (1970), Jimmy Wakeley (1971), Roger Miller (1973), Carl Belew (1976), Dallas Frazier (1976), Woody Guthrie (1977), Jimmy Webb (1990), Conway Twitty (1993), Hank Thompson (1997), Merle Kilgore (1998), Tommy Collins (1999), Wayne Kemp (1999), Vince Gill (2005) and Garth Brooks (2011).