PERSON: Michael Signer

Charlottesville, VA

Mayor

Michael Signer is a lecturer at the University of Virginia, where he teaches in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics and the Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy; Managing Principal of Madison Law & Strategy Group, PLLC, where he practices corporate and regulatory law; and Mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, a triple-A bond rated city of nearly 50,000 frequently rated as one of America’s best places to live. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from U.C., Berkeley, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow; a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law; and a B.A. in politics, magna cum laude, from Princeton University. He previously served as counsel to Governor Mark Warner of Virginia, as chief national security advisor to the 2008 John Edwards for President campaign, and as senior policy advisor at the Center for American Progress. He was a 2009 candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and USA Today. He has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, the BBC, and NPR. He lives with his wife and twin boys in Charlottesville, Virginia. <br> <br> — politics.virginia.edu