Patricia Scott SCHROEDER, Congress, CO (1940)

SCHROEDER, Patricia Scott, a Representative from Colorado; born Patricia Nell Scott in Portland, Multnomah County, Oreg., July 30, 1940; graduated from Roosevelt High School, Des Moines, Iowa, 1958; B.A., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., 1961; J.D., Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., 1964; lawyer, private practice; lawyer, National Labor Relations Board, 1964-1966; teacher, 1969-1972; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-third and to the eleven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1997); chair, Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families (One Hundred Second and One Hundred Third Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Fifth Congress in 1996.

Bibliography

Schroeder, Patricia S. 24 Years of House Work . . . And the Place is Still a Mess: My Life in Politics. Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1998.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present