įrom 1995 to 1998, Perez worked as Democratic Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy's principal adviser on civil rights, criminal justice, and constitutional issues. Perez chaired the interagency Worker Exploitation Task Force, which oversaw a variety of initiatives designed to protect workers. He later served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights under Attorney General Janet Reno. įrom 1989 to 1995, he worked as a federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division. Early career Īfter graduating from Harvard, Perez worked as a law clerk for Judge Zita Weinshienk of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado from 1987 to 1989. In 1986, while a student at Harvard, Perez worked as a law clerk for Attorney General Edwin Meese. In 1987, Perez received a Juris Doctor cum laude from Harvard Law School and a Master of Public Policy from the John F. He worked in Brown's dining hall and for the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights. He covered the cost of attending Brown with scholarships and Pell Grants and by working as a trash collector and in a warehouse. He joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity there. Perez received his Bachelor of Arts in international relations and political science from Brown University in 1983. Perez graduated from Canisius High School, an all boys Jesuit school in Buffalo, in 1979. He attended Christ the King in Amherst, NY until the 8th Grade. His father died of a heart attack when Perez was 12 years old. Perez is the youngest of five brothers and sisters, all of whom but Perez followed their father in becoming physicians. Brache was initially an ally of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, but after disagreements with the regime, he was declared an enemy of the state, forcing him and his family to remain in the United States. His mother, Grace, came to the United States in 1930 after her father, Rafael Brache, was appointed as the Dominican Republic's Ambassador to the United States. Army after World War II, worked as a doctor in Atlanta, Georgia, before moving to Buffalo, where he worked as a physician at a Veterans Affairs hospital. Rafael Antonio de Jesús Pérez Lara, who were both first-generation immigrants from Dominican Republic. Thomas Edward Perez was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, to parents Grace ( née Altagracia Brache Bernard) and Dr. 8 Chair of the Democratic National Committee.6 Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.In June 2021, Perez announced that he would be running for the Democratic nomination in the 2022 Maryland gubernatorial election, but lost to Baltimore author Wes Moore in the Democratic primary. Perez declined to run for re-election in 2021, and Jaime Harrison was elected to succeed Perez on January 21, 2021. After a tight race against Keith Ellison, Perez was elected Chairman on the second ballot and immediately appointed Ellison as deputy chair. In 2013, Perez was nominated by President Barack Obama to be the United States Secretary of Labor, replacing outgoing Secretary Hilda Solis.Īfter the 2016 elections, Perez announced his candidacy for Chair of the Democratic National Committee in the 2017 party election. 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. He attempted to run for the Democratic nomination for Attorney General of Maryland, but was disqualified for not having sufficient time as a member of the Maryland state bar. 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 next worked for Senator Ted Kennedy and then served as the Director of the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services in the final years of the Clinton administration.
He clerked for Judge Zita Weinshienk in Colorado prior to serving as a federal civil rights prosecutor for the Department of Justice. īorn in Buffalo, New York, Perez is a graduate of Brown University, Harvard Law School, and the John F. He was a GU Politics Fellow at the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service in 2021. Perez was previously Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (2009–2013) and United States Secretary of Labor (2013–2017). Thomas Edward Perez (born October 7, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the Chair of the Democratic National Committee from February 2017 until January 2021.
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