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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ColoradoSCHROEDER, Patricia Scott
(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.
Falk, Erika A. “Women, Press, and the Presidency.” Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2001.
Lowy, Joan. Pat Schroeder: Woman of the House
. Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 2003.
“Patricia S. Schroeder” in Women in Congress, 1917-1990.
Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991.
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.
Schroeder, Patricia S., with Andrea Camp, and Robyn Lipner. Champion of the Great American Family
. New York: Random House, 1989.
Uhlenkott, Linda Anne. “Women’s Voices in Congress: The Rhetoric of Geraldine Ferraro, Pat Schroeder and Barbara Boxer.” Ph.D. diss., University of Nevada, Reno, 1996.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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