Deval L. Patrick

Deval Patrick served as the 71st Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015. Under his leadership, Massachusetts ranked first in the nation in student achievement, health care coverage, energy efficiency, and entrepreneurial activity; became the global hub for the life sciences and biotech industry; achieved the highest bond rating in its history; and emerged from recession to achieve a 25-year employment high. Since 2015 he has been a managing director at Bain Capital, where he launched and oversees its Double Impact Fund, a private equity fund that invests in companies for both financial return and measurable social or environmental impact. 

Earlier in his career, he served as a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Los Angeles, as a staff attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund working on voting rights and death-penalty cases, and then as a partner in the commercial litigation group at the Boston law firm Hill & Barlow. In 1994, President Bill Clinton named him assistant attorney general for civil rights, the nation's top civil rights post, where he prosecuted hate crimes and enforced laws on employment discrimination, fair lending, and rights for the disabled. Before running for governor, Patrick served as a senior executive and general counsel in two Fortune 50 companies, Texaco and The Coca-Cola Company.