Thomas Sherman Kerrigan (born 15 March 1939) is an American poet.
He was born in Los Angeles where he still lives.
He has served as President of the Irish American Bar Association and successfully defended a law created in the Great Depression to protect workers before the United States Supreme Court in 2001 (Lujan v. G&G Fire Sprinklers, Inc., 532 U.S. 189, decided April 17, 2001).
1985 His poetry has appeared in important periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic and in the Garrison Keillor anthology, Good Poems (Viking/Penguin 2002) and in Literature and Its Writers (Bedford/St.
He is also the author of two produced plays and a former drama critic affiliated with the Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle.