Tom Perriello | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| United States Special Envoy for Sudan | |
| Assumed office February 26, 2024 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| 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[1] |
| 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) |
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.[2]
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.[3]
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.[4] Perriello ran for the Democratic nomination in the 2017 Virginia gubernatorial election, but lost to Ralph Northam.[5]
On February 26, 2024, Perriello was appointed as U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan.
- ^ "Wohlers, Laurence D". www.state.gov. Archived from the original on January 25, 2017. Retrieved January 13, 2022.
- ^ Stein, Sam; Stokols, Eli; Egan, Lauren (April 18, 2023). "Soros Foundation's top man moves on". POLITICO. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
- ^ E.J. Dionne Jr. (November 3, 2010). "The Perriello Way". The Nation. Retrieved March 22, 2016.
- ^ "Perriello, Thomas". State.gov. February 24, 2014. Archived from the original on April 12, 2014. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
- ^ "Live Election Results: Virginia Primaries". The New York Times. June 13, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2017.