Name:  Patricia Walsh

Home State:  New York, Adirondack Mountains.  Started In Florida on Marco Island, then St. Petersburg, then to The Villages. 

SCRC: 2014

Professional Background: 

    Bachelors Degree: Political Science Siena College.

    Masters Degree: Public Administration, Russell Sage College.  

    NYS Association of Counties :Legislative Director

    NYS Association of Towns: Manager of Education & Training

    NYS Department of State:  Assistant Secretary of State.

    Collier and Sumter Counties Boards of Elections:  Election worker

    Volunteered on many elections including federal, NY state, congressional, county, town.

    Attended 1996 Republican National Convention in San Diego. 

    Was a TAR (Teen Age Republican) and YR (Young Republican)

Family: Husband, Steve; golden retriever, Toby; one step-son, one step-granddaughter, two step great-grandchildren.

Hobbies: Mountain climbing in the summer in the Adirondack Mountains.  Winter in The Villages: Cardio drumming, lifting weights, working out, biking, & stuffing teddy bears for Camp Boggy Creek.

Book: The Bible, reading and re-reading, haven’t finished.

Favorite Music: Chicago, Earth, Wind & Fire, Moody Blues, Boz Scaggs

Professional Accomplishment:  Serving in NYS Governor George Pataki’s Administration

Passionate:  Girl Scouting, the cookies, the badges, the camping, the camp fires, all of it!!

Travel:  Ireland

Surprise fact:  I feed and ride horses several mornings a week at Camp Wildwood.

Quote: “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself,”