Dana Perino
| Dana Perino | |
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| Member of the Broadcasting Board of Governors | |
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In office June 30, 2010 – December 31, 2012 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Ted Kaufman |
| Succeeded by | Matt Armstrong |
| White House Press Secretary | |
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In office September 14, 2007 – January 20, 2009 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Tony Snow |
| Succeeded by | Robert Gibbs |
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Dana Marie Perino May 9, 1972 Evanston, Wyoming, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Peter McMahon |
| Education |
Colorado State University, Pueblo (BA) University of Illinois, Springfield (MA) |
Dana Marie Perino (born May 9, 1972) is an American political commentator and author. She was White House Press Secretary, serving under President George W. Bush from September 14, 2007 to January 20, 2009. She was the second female White House Press Secretary, after Dee Dee Myers, who served during the Clinton Administration. She is currently a political commentator for Fox News, while also serving as a co-host of the network's talk show The Five, and is a book publishing executive at Random House.
Born in Evanston, Wyoming, she is the daughter of Janice "Jan" and Leo Perino, and grew up in Colorado in the Denver area. Two of her paternal great-grandparents were Italian immigrants. She attended Ponderosa High School in Parker, a suburb southeast of Denver. Perino graduated from Colorado State University-Pueblo in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in mass communications and minors in both political science and Spanish. In college, she was on the forensics team, worked at KTSC-TV, the campus-based Rocky Mountain PBS affiliate, and also worked at KCCY-FM on the 2 to 6 a.m. shift. Perino went on to obtain a master's degree in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS). During her time at UIS, she also worked for WCIA, a CBS affiliate, as a daily reporter covering the Illinois Capitol.
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