Anthony Richard Perkins (born March 20, 1963) is president of the Family Research Council, a self described Christian conservative policy and lobbying organization based in Washington, D.C.
Perkins, a Southern Baptist layman, was previously a police officer and television reporter, served two terms as a Republican member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and unsuccessfully ran for the U.S.
Senate in 2002.
On May 14, 2018, he was appointed to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.