Career<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nShe worked as a staff assistant for Rep. Scott McInnis after moving to Washington, D.C. As a result, she was hired as the press secretary for Rep. Dan Schaefer, a position she held for over four years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She relocated to England with her husband Peter McMahon in 1998 and returned to Washington two months after the September 11 attacks in November 2001. She then moved on to become the Department of Justice’s spokesperson in 2001. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perino later worked for the White House Council on Environmental Quality as the Associate Director of Communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under George W. Bush, she eventually rose to the position of Deputy Press Secretary. Perino served as Acting White House Press Secretary when Tony Snow was undergoing cancer treatment in 2007. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
From 2007 to 2008, she was the full-time Press Secretary. A TV journalist named Munstadhar al-Zaidi threw two shoes at President Bush during a press conference in Bagdahd in December 2008, and Perino’s eye was wounded by a microphone stand during the scuffle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
From September until January 2009, when the Bush administration ended and President Obama took office, Perino served as Assistant to the President and White House Press Secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n