Dana Perino

About

Dana Marie Perino (born May 9, 1972) is an American political commentator and author who was the 26th White House press secretary, under President George W. Bush from September 14, 2007, to January 20, 2009. She was the second female White House press secretary, after Dee Dee Myers, who served during the Clinton administration.
Perino is a political commentator for Fox News, while also serving as a co-host of the network’s talk show The Five, and was a book publishing executive at Random House. On October 2, 2017, she began hosting The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino on Fox News. In early 2021, Perino left The Daily Briefing to co-anchor America’s Newsroom with Bill Hemmer.

Born in Evanston, Wyoming, on May 9, 1972, she grew up in Denver, Colorado. Two of her paternal great-grandparents were Italian immigrants from Turin, Piedmont. She attended Ponderosa High School in Parker, a suburb southeast of Denver. Perino graduated from Colorado State University Pueblo with a bachelor’s degree in mass communications and minors in both political science and Spanish. She was on the university’s forensics team and worked at KTSC-TV, the campus-based Rocky Mountain PBS…