Adrian Fenty
*Adrian Fenty was born on this date in 1970. He is a Black politician and lawyer.
Adrian Malik Fenty was born in Washington, D.C., the second of the three children of Jeanette Bianchi Perno Fenty and Phil Fenty. He is the middle child of three boys: Shawn, himself, and Jesse. Fenty's mother is Italian-American. His father has roots in Barbados and Panama. Phil and Jeanette Fenty moved to Washington, D.C., in 1967. Fenty was from the Mount Pleasant neighborhood.
He graduated from Mackin Catholic High School, where he ran track. Fenty earned a B.A. in English and economics from Oberlin College and a J.D. from the Howard University School of Law. He is a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. Before becoming involved in local D.C. politics, Fenty was an intern for U.S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II. He then served as an aide to Councilmember Kevin P. Chavous, was elected to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC), district 4C, and was president of the 16th Street Neighborhood Civic Association.
Fenty also participated in the Nation's Triathlon and the Washington, D.C. Triathlon. He served one term as D.C. mayor and lost his bid for reelection at the primary level but won the Republican mayoral primary as a write-in candidate; he declined the Republican nomination and said he would likely not seek elected office again. In 1997, Fenty married Jamaican-British Michelle Cross Fenty, a corporate attorney. The couple have three children.
In 2011, after his term as mayor was over, Fenty signed with Greater Talent Network, an outside adviser and counsel to Heffler, Radetich & Saitta, an accounting and consulting firm, and a visiting professor of the Department of African American Studies at Oberlin College in Ohio. In February 2011, Fenty became an outside adviser to Rosetta Stone and a strategic adviser for the state and local government practice of Capgemini Government Solutions LLC, an information technology consulting firm.
On March 8, 2011, Fenty backed Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker's anti-union efforts. He also said that the Democratic Wisconsin senators should be held accountable by the party for leaving the state to delay the enactment of Walker's legislation. In August 2013, The Washington Post reported that Fenty was in a relationship with Laurene Powell Jobs. Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has three children. The couple was last seen together in 2016.
