Thomas Perez on Principles & Values

	Thomas Perez on Principles & Values

First Latino elected to the Montgomery County Council

Secretary Perez also served the people of Maryland in a variety of roles. He was the first Latino elected to the Montgomery County Council, where he served from 2002 to 2006. Later, as secretary of Maryland's Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation from 2007 to 2009, he helped implement the country's first living wage law and spearheaded a package of reforms to address the foreclosure crisis.

The son of Dominican immigrants, Secretary Perez was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. Public service was the family business. Perez's maternal grandfather was the ambassador to the United States from the Dominican Republic in the 1930s, until he spoke out against his home country's brutal dictator and was declared non grata. Pere's father, a physician, served in the U.S. Army and worked for many years at the Veterans Affairs hospital in Buffalo.

Source: Department of Labor website: Secretary's biography , Feb 29, 2016

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