Utica, Mich. — Today, Southeast Michigan native and military and business leader Tripp Adams — a United States Navy and Army Veteran with three decades of leadership experience in the public and private sectors — announced his campaign for Michigan’s 10th Congressional District. His campaign’s launch video can be viewed here.

“In the Army and the Navy, we didn’t fight over politics — we worked together to protect and defend the country we love,” said Adams. “I’ve dedicated my life to public service and worked to make our country safer and stronger. I took an oath to protect and defend our country and communities. Now, I’m running because Michiganders deserve a new generation of patriotic leadership that’s committed to delivering results for our families and fixing our broken political system.”

“Our country is at a crossroads, and Michigan’s working families are tired of politicians in Washington playing games with their health care and threatening Social Security while doing nothing to ease the cost of groceries, housing, and prescription drugs.”

“For too long, politicians have ignored the real causes of the cost-of-living crisis— listening to wealthy donors instead of the working families who made Southeast Michigan into the ‘Arsenal of Democracy.’ It’s time that our district had a fighter in Congress again — someone working to lower costs, protect our health care, stand up for our right to organize, safeguard our Veterans and their benefits, and make life just a little bit easier for Michiganders struggling to get by,” he continued. Tripp grew up in Southeast Michigan, where his mom was a public school teacher and his dad earned his college degree at GMI and then worked at GM for 40 years. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Tripp served our nation with two deployments in the Navy before heading to the University of Michigan to earn his law degree. During law school, he joined the Michigan Army National Guard, serving as a combat engineer, and then joined the Army Reserve, where he deployed again and has served as a two-time battalion commander.

After his active duty service, Tripp brought his long history of duty and leadership to the private sector, leading a team of nearly two thousand as Chief Operating Officer at Emagine Entertainment and building a health care startup that manufactured technology right here in Southeast Michigan. As an advocate, Tripp is passionate about preventing Veteran suicide through increased awareness and destigmatizing of mental health, and he worked to evacuate Afghan-American U.S. Army soldiers’ families during the Afghanistan evacuation.

Tripp has a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, an M.A. in Economics from Old Dominion University, and a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy. He lives in Utica and continues to serve as a U.S. Army Reserve battalion commander focused on Asia-Pacific security.