Name R. Herman | Education Yale University | |
R. Thomas "Tom" Herman is a former columnist for The Wall Street Journal.
Tom Herman wrote for The Wall Street Journal from 1968 until May 2009, when he retired as the newspaper's tax columnist and a senior special writer. Since then, he has continued writing for the Journal on a freelance basis and now writes a tax column for the newspaper's wealth management section. A 1968 graduate of Yale University, Herman was the Political Editor of the Yale Daily News and was in Davenport College, along with President George W. Bush. He taught a seminar on business journalism at Yale in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 and will teach there again in late 2017. He has been an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism since 2009. He also has taught at the University of San Diego during the January-May semester since 2012. He was the tax columnist for The Fiscal Times, a Web site that focuses on taxes, budget issues, personal finance and related issues. He and his wife Marilyn live in New York City.