Tulsi Gabbard at the 2019 AHC Awards Gala along with Consul General of Greece Evgenia Beniatoglou, AHC Benefactors Demos & Carol Anagnos, and Honorary Consul General of Cyprus Andreas Kyprianides with spouse Mika

The American Hellenic Council would like to congratulate our 2019 Pericles Award Honoree for being nominated as Director of National Intelligence in the incoming Administration. Ms. Gabbard has been a friend of US Allies in the Eastern Mediterranean. She has served in the US Military and has traveled in the region extensively and has spoken favorably for Greece, Cyprus and Israel and against aggression in the Eastern Mediterranean. She had spoken with our Executive Director at the time about her trip to the region. She was honored by the AHC in 2019 with the Pericles Award.

Tulsi Gabbard has served as a Lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve since 2021. She also served in the Hawaii Army National Guard from 2003 to 2020. Before being nominated as the Director of National Intelligence by President Trump, she served as U.S. Representative for Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2021.

Gabbard also ran for president in the 2020 Democratic Primaries. She was the first Samoan-American member of Congress. Gabbard was also the youngest woman elected to the Hawaii state legislature. The 2019 Pericles Award Honoree left the Democratic Party in October 2022 to become an independent before joining the Republican Party in 2024.