| Sergio de la Peña | |||||||
| Birth Place: | Chihuahua City, Mexico | ||||||
| Allegiance: |  United States | ||||||
| Rank: | Colonel | ||||||
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Sergio de la Peña is an American politician and retired United States Army colonel who was deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs during the Trump administration.[1]
De la Peña retired from the Army as a colonel. During his career, he was also a division chief of the U.S. Northern Command.[2] De la Peña worked for the private military contractor L-3 before founding[3] [2] de la Peña Consulting, LLC in June 2011.[2] He spent five years leading the consultancy.[3]
De la Peña was surrogate for the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign,[2] [3] and was then part of the Trump transition team assigned to the United States Department of Defense.[3] In 2017, Defense Secretary James Mattis appointed De la Peña as deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Western Hemisphere.[3] [2]
On January 11, 2021, de la Peña announced his candidacy as a Republican candidate for the 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election.[4]