Tom Strickland

Tom Strickland
Assistant U.S. Secretary of the Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks
In office May 2009 – February 2011
President	Barack Obama
U.S. Attorney, Colorado
In office 1999–2001
Personal details
Alma mater	Louisiana State University (B.A.) University of Texas (J.D.)

Tom Strickland is an American lawyer who was formerly chief of staff to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks in the Interior Department. Strickland served as United States Attorney for Colorado and was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate for Colorado in 1996 and 2002. He joined WilmerHale as a partner in September, 2011.

Tom Strickland was born in Texas but attended Louisiana State University where he took a degree in English literature, with honors, and played football.

In 1977 he graduated with honors from the University of Texas School of Law then clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Carl Olaf Bue Jr. in the Southern District of Texas. Prior to his appointment as U.S. Attorney Strickland was associated for 15 years with what was then Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber & Strickland rising to named partner. The firm was a prominent Colorado law firm noted for its political connections.

From 1982 to 1984 Strickland served as director of policy for Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, advising the governor on all policy and intergovernmental issues. He went on to serve and chair the Colorado Transportation Commission from 1985 to 1989. Strickland was, with Ken Salazar, one of the founders and a board member of Great Outdoors Colorado, a lottery-funded endowment for Colorado’s public parks created in 1992.

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