Thomas Andrew McEnery (born September 23, 1945) is an American author, businessman, and teacher from San Jose, California, who served as the 61st mayor of that city from 1983 to 1991.
After his term in office, he served on the board of directors of the San Jose Sharks hockey team and continued to pursue his business and writing career.
He is an owner of the Irish Innovation Center and Silicon Valley Global in Downtown San Jose which houses and funds start-up technology ventures.
Tom's maternal grandfather, "Honest Ben" Sellers, was a San Jose city councilman, mayor and leader of the progressive reform movement in the early twentieth century.
Attending local schools, including Bellarmine College Preparatory, McEnery earned a BA in business administration and an MA in history from Santa Clara University.
San Pedro Square, which includes the Paul Masson Champagne Cellars and the Farmers Union and Lyndon Buildings, has a lively restaurant row, offices and apartments.
The San Pedro Square Market, opened in the fall of 2011, is a longtime dream of the McEnery family and has been heralded as the key ingredient to the vibrant and revitalized downtown as the catalyst from the thousands of housing units and office development.
A reformist leader, McEnery led the statewide fight for the Clean Government Initiative, which included reasonable term limits for elected officials and campaign finance reform.
In 1992, he led a coalition of community groups, city officials and Silicon Valley corporations in working on the problems of drug and gang violence.
The comedy was scheduled to make its U.S. premiere on St. Patrick's Day 2020 at 3Below Theaters & Lounge in downtown San Jose but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Silicon Valley Business Hall of Fame selected McEnery as its first politician inductee, and Focus magazine put him on the 100-member Bay Area "Brain Trust" in 1995.
Tom McEnery and his wife Jill have three grown daughters and six grandchildren, and still reside on the same downtown San Jose street where he was raised and four generations of their families have lived.