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Thomas Perez

Tom Perez
Official portrait of United States Secretary of Labor Tom Perez.jpg
Chair of the Democratic National Committee
Assumed office
February 25, 2017
Deputy Keith Ellison
Preceded by Donna Brazile (Acting)
26th United States Secretary of Labor
In office
July 23, 2013 – January 20, 2017
President Barack Obama
Deputy Chris Lu
Preceded by Hilda Solis
Succeeded by Ed Hugler (Acting)
United States Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
In office
October 8, 2009 – July 23, 2013
President Barack Obama
Preceded by Wan Kim
Succeeded by Joycelyn Samuels (Acting)
Secretary of the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation
In office
March 15, 2007 – October 7, 2009
Governor Martin O'Malley
Preceded by James Fielder
Succeeded by Alexander Sanchez
Personal details
Born Thomas Edward Perez
(1961-10-07) October 7, 1961 (age 55)
Buffalo, New York, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Ann Staudenmaier
Children 3
Education Brown University (BA)
Harvard University (MPP, JD)
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Thomas Edward "Tom" Perez (born October 7, 1961) is an American Democratic Party politician, consumer advocate, civil rights lawyer, and Chair of the Democratic National Committee since 2017. Perez was the United States Secretary of Labor from 2013 to 2017. Prior to that he served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice.

Born in Buffalo, New York, Perez is a graduate of Brown University, Harvard Law School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He worked as a law clerk for the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado before serving in the Department of Justice from 1989 to 1995, where he worked as a federal prosecutor, and as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights under Attorney General Janet Reno. He worked as a Special Counselor for Senator Ted Kennedy until 1998 when he served as the Director of the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the final years of the Clinton administration.

Perez was then elected to the Montgomery County (Maryland) Council in 2002, serving as the council's president from 2005, until the end of his tenure in 2006. He attempted to run for the Democratic nomination for Attorney General of Maryland, but was disqualified for not having 10 years of legal experience in Maryland (he was admitted to the Maryland bar in 2001). Perez was appointed by Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley to serve as Secretary of the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation in January 2007, until his October 2009 confirmation by the United States Senate as Assistant Attorney General.


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