Patricia Schroeder

Patricia Nell Scott " Pat" Schroeder ( born July 30, 1940 in Portland, Oregon) is an American politician. Between 1973 and 1997, she represented the first electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Patricia Nell Scott, as her maiden name, attended until 1958 the Roosevelt High School in Des Moines ( Iowa), where she had moved with her parents. She then studied until 1961 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, the subject of history. After studying law at the Law School of Harvard University, she was admitted to the bar in 1964. Still in 1964, she moved to Denver, the capital of the State of Colorado, where she worked as a lawyer. Between 1964 and 1966 she served on the National Labor Relations Board. She also worked as a teacher between 1969 and 1972.

Politically, Schroeder was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1972, she was elected as its candidate in the first district of Colorado against the Republican incumbent Mike McKevitt in the U.S. House of Representatives. After it was confirmed in the following eleven congressional elections in their respective mandate, Schroeder was able to complete a total of twelve legislative sessions in Congress between January 1973 and January 3, 1997 3. She was the first woman representing the State of Colorado in Congress. There she was temporarily a member of the Armed Services Committee. Between 1991 and 1995 she was chairperson of the Children, Youth and Family Committee. In 1987, she also competed for the 1988 upcoming presidential elections, but withdrew her candidacy in September of this year back. In 1996 she gave up another run for Congress.

After her time in the House of Representatives Patricia Schroeder 1997 CEO of the Association of American Publishers ( Association of American Publishers). This function they held until the year 2009, when it was replaced by Tom Allen, a former congressman from Maine.