Now retired, Pat spent over 30 years in nonprofit management. She served the American Red Cross as a technical field representative, a general field representative, a district manager, and as the director of recruitment for Blood Services. Later she was the first director of donor recruitment for the newly-chartered Community Blood Center of the Ozarks. These positions involved a myriad of responsibilities, including general management, human resources, budgetary planning and execution and all facets of strategic planning and accountability, as well as daily operational oversight. Pat earned a BA in political science from Iowa in 1963 and she now lives in Estes Park, Colorado.