Thomas M. Sullivan

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Tom Sullivan (Thomas M. Sullivan, b. about 1949) is an American radio talk show host and former stock broker. A Seattle native, he moved to the Sacramento, California area in 1975, and he now resides in Granite Bay, California.

After graduating from Seattle University, Sullivan was a tax accountant for Price Waterhouse.

According to anecdotes on his radio talk show, he served with the Washington State Patrol before moving to Sacramento.

Sullivan is a managing director of The Sullivan Group, a brokerage he founded in 1980 and sold to Prudential Securities in 1986, so it is now is affiliated with Wachovia.

Sullivan is widely recognized in the Sacramento area since he has served as financial editor for KFBK radio since December of 1980 and for KCRA television since 1982.

Sullivan began a radio talk show in July of 1988 on weekday afternoons from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Pacific on KFBK, and the show took and has held number one ratings ever since. Self-described as "fiscally conservative, socially it-depends", the success of his show, and his personal friendship with Rush Limbaugh whom he met at KFBK in the early 1980s, has resulted in his occasional appearance as a stand-in host on The Rush Limbaugh Show. Sullivan's brokerage is The Sullivan Group that Limbaugh cites as the official auditor of his claim to be "documented to be almost always right" some specific percentage of the time.