Remarkable Women: Patricia Schroeder
When a handful of Democrats in Colorado’s First District were looking for someone to run for the House of Representatives in 1972, no one saw Pat Schroeder as a viable candidate – least of all Schroeder herself. A lawyer by training and mother of two, she agreed to run so she could articulate views she felt weren’t being heard. Schroeder won the primary and went on to defeat the Republican incumbent, and over the next quarter century, helped redefine the role of women in politics.
Corrine Egan has served as Executive Director for the NW PA Labor-Management Council and director of Special Events and Community Education at Mercyhurst University. She graduated from Mercyhurst with a business degree in 1980. She has served on the Board of Trustees for Metro Health Center, as a commissioner for the NW Regional Planning Commission, and is a past member of the Pennsylvania Commission for Women.
