Adrian Perkins

Mayor Adrian Perkins is Senior Vice President at Prospect Park, a merchant bank based out of Chicago, IL that specializes in capital formation and financial and government advisory. He is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana. In the wake of 9/11, he accepted a nomination and eventually graduated from West Point as Class President. In 2008 he entered the United States Army, serving three tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, achieving the rank of Captain and Company Commander, and receiving the Bronze Star for his service. After transitioning from the military, Adrian was accepted into Harvard Law School, where he was elected Student Body President and a Pat Tillman Scholar.   

On December 31, 2018 Adrian was elected the 56th Mayor of the City of Shreveport. Unfortunately, his mayoral term was disrupted by the global pandemic. As the youngest Mayor of any major American city in 2021 he led with distinction and was highlighted by the Washington Post as being the first to identify COVID's disproportional impact on minority communities. Also of note, Mayor Perkins hired the Shreveport’s first CTO, was a founding member of Mayors for Guaranteed Income, and transformed a 1.2 million dollars deficit into a 55-million-dollar surplus in three years.  

In addition to serving as Mayor, Mayor Perkins also served on several boards including the Federal Communications Commission’s Intergovernmental Advisory Committee; United States Conference of Mayors Board of Trustees; and Northwest Louisiana’s Metropolitan Planning Organization.  

After leaving the Mayor’s Office in 2022, Mayor Perkins became a University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics Prtizker Fellow, Stanford Veterans Fellowship Program, and continues to serve on the boards of Service 2 School; US Mayoral Roundtable, and the Southern Rail Commission.