Tom Perriello
Thomas Stuart Price Perriello (born October 9, 1974) is an American attorney, diplomat, and politician. For over four years until July 2023, Perriello served as the executive director for U.S. Programs at the Open Society Foundations.
Tom Perriello | |
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| United States Special Envoy for the African Great Lakes | |
| In office July 6, 2015 – December 23, 2016 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Russ Feingold |
| Succeeded by | J. Peter Pham |
| Special Representative for the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review | |
| In office February 24, 2014 – July 5, 2015 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | David McKean |
| Succeeded by | Laurence D. Wohlers |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 5th district | |
| In office January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Virgil Goode |
| Succeeded by | Robert Hurt |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Thomas Stuart Price Perriello October 9, 1974 Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | Yale University (BA, JD) |
Perriello ran for Virginia's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives in 2008. He narrowly defeated six-term Republican incumbent Virgil H. Goode Jr. by 727 votes out of over 317,000 cast. At the time he served, the district included much of Southside Virginia and stretched north to Charlottesville. Perriello was defeated in the 2010 election by Republican state senator Robert Hurt.
In February 2014, he was appointed United States Special Representative for the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, serving until July 2015. From July 2015 to December 2016, he was Special Envoy for the Great Lakes Region of Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo, succeeding former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold. Perriello ran for the Democratic nomination in the 2017 Virginia gubernatorial election, but lost to Ralph Northam.