Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger named Tom Campbell California's Director of Finance in November, 2005.
Campbell has been a law professor at Stanford University and, more recently, the Dean of Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He was elected five times to represent the Silicon Valley area of California in Congress.
A native of Chicago, Campbell earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in economics at the University of Chicago, and a law degree from Harvard in 1976. He returned to the University of Chicago, earning a PhD in economics there in 1980. His dissertation was the first quantitative measurement of discrimination against women in federal civil service employment.