Dana Perino

Dana Marie Perino ( born May 9, 1972 in Evanston, Wyoming) was from 14 September 2007 to 20 January 2009, the press officer of the White House under the administration of President George W. Bush. It replaced Tony Snow, and was thus by Dee Dee Myers, the second woman in this function. Her successor was Robert Gibbs. Since the end of Bush's presidency it operates, among others, as a TV commentator

Early career

Perino grew up in Denver and attended Ponderosa High School in Parker, a suburb of Denver. She attended the University of Southern Colorado, where she graduated in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in mass communication and minor degrees in political science and Spanish. Even at the university, she worked among others for a resident on the campus of the University television station that sent weekly analysis of Colorado's policy. Then Perino was enrolled in a postgraduate course at the University of Illinois at Springfield ( UIS). The completion of this degree reached Perino when she reported for a spin-off from CBS about the politics in Illinois.

Perino moved to Washington, DC to work for the Republican Congressman Scott McInnis of Colorado as an assistant before she worked for almost four years for Daniel Schaefer, who also sat as a Republican for Colorado House of Representatives.

In 1997 she met her future husband on a flight Peter McMahon know, one born in 1954 in Blackpool businessman, whom she married eleven months later. After his retirement in 1998 Schaefer announced, Perino and McMahon moved to the United Kingdom. After a year both moved to San Diego, where they lived for three years and Perino worked for a high-tech company in the field of public relations.

In November 2001, Perino returned to Washington, where she became a spokeswoman for the Justice Department, a position she held two years. My solution was applied then a position as associate director of the Council on Environmental Quality ( CEQ) of the White House for public relations.

Spokeswoman for the White House

On March 31, 2006, President George W. Bush Perino appointed to his deputy and assistant deputy spokeswoman for the White House, in whose sphere fell environmental issues. From 27 March to 30 April, she was acting spokeswoman for the White House, as incumbent Tony Snow underwent a medical treatment.

President Bush announced on 31 August 2007 that Snow was resigning for health reasons from his post and will be replaced by Perino. Perino had held the post of 14 September 2007 to the end of the reign of President Bush.

International attention Dana Perino at a press conference at which they publicly declared as acting spokeswoman for the White House, the U.S. led a war in Iraq, but had been "invited": " The U.S. does not occupy Iraq [ ... ] we are there at the invitation of a democratically elected government. "

After Bush's presidency

With the change of presidency to Democrat Barack Obama she retired from her position and has since mainly worked as a TV commentator for the conservative news and opinion transmitter FoxNews, among other things, a permanent member of the team of the talk show The Five.