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Thomas Edward Perez (born October 7, 1961) is an American politician, consumer advocate and civil rights lawyer who is the current United States Secretary of Labor. A member of the Democratic Party, Perez previously 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 and Harvard Law School. Perez 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. After a failed campaign for the Democratic nomination for Attorney General of Maryland, 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. On March 18, 2013, Perez was nominated by President Barack Obama to be the United States Secretary of Labor, replacing outgoing Secretary Hilda Solis. He was confirmed by the Senate on July 18 and sworn in on July 23, 2013. ==Early life and education== Thomas Edward Perez was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, to parents Rafael and Grace (née Brache) Perez, who were both first-generation Dominican immigrants. His father Rafael, who earned U.S. citizenship after enlisting in the U.S. Army after World War II, worked as a doctor in Atlanta, Georgia before moving to Buffalo where he worked as a physician at a VA hospital. 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. She later remained in the U.S. after Ambassador Brache was declared persona non grata by his own government, for speaking out against Dominican President Rafael Trujillo's regime. Perez, who was the youngest of four brother and sisters (all of whom followed their father in becoming physicians), suffered the loss of their father when he died of a heart attack, when Perez was 12 years old. He graduated from Canisius High School, an all men's Roman Catholic Jesuit private school, in 1979.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez '79 to address Downtowners in October )〕 Perez received his Bachelor of Arts in international relations and political science from Brown University in 1983. Perez covered the cost of attending Brown with scholarships and Pell Grants and by working as a trash collector and in a warehouse. He also worked in Brown's dining hall and for the Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights. In 1987, he received a Juris Doctor ''cum laude'' from Harvard Law School and a Master of Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Civil Rights in 2010 and Beyond: Tom Perez ’87 & the Future of Civil Rights Work )〕 In 1986, during his time at Harvard, Perez worked as a law clerk for then Attorney General Edwin Meese.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title =Department of Justice STATEMENT OF THOMAS E. PEREZ ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OVERSIGHT HEARING ON THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Perez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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