Perkins is a graduate of both the United States Military Academy at West Point and Harvard Law School, and is an Army veteran.

[4] Upon graduation from West Point, Perkins was commissioned as a field artillery officer and posted at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

[12] In July 2019, Indiana-based SuperATV announced a $4.35 million investment at its Shreveport site, bringing 117 direct and indirect jobs.

[18] Perkins called for a monthly sanitation fee for residential and commercial garbage pick-up to be added to municipal water bills to provide sanitation workers with a pay raise and to reduce the $8.4 million subsidy from the general fund for curbside solid waste collection.

[19] As a result of the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic, the City of Shreveport experienced a projected $25 million shortfall.

The Perkins administration was able to avoid furloughing or laying off city employees or eliminating essential services by proposing $25 million in cuts, including everything from "non-personnel-related expenditures to deferred capital projects and funded vacancies in nearly every department.

He utilized technology to geo-locate cases of COVID-19 in the City of Shreveport, noticing a concentration in densely populated, predominately African-American neighborhoods.

Mayor Perkins immediately shifted resources and messaging to increase awareness of the virus and promote safe practices in these areas.

His stated goal was to "inject competition into the process and ensure that minorities, disadvantaged business owners, and Shreveport’s middle class—people who have been excluded from government work for decades—received the same opportunities as everyone else.

[28] On July 22, 2020, Perkins announced that he was running for the United States Senate in 2020, challenging incumbent Republican Bill Cassidy.

The pain and suffering I've seen has driven me to this decision...we can't afford to give Sen. Cassidy another chance.

[40] On Nov. 8, 2019, the Pat Tillman Foundation honored Perkins with the organization's 2019 Make Your Mark Award "for embodying the values of service, scholarship, humble leadership and impact in [his] work and daily life.