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Jeffery Patterson Executive Director  
PO Box 13285 Austin TX 78711    Patterson brings nearly 30 years of experience in political communications and institutional public affairs management. He comes to TCC from The University of Texas at Austin, where he served for six years as Assistant Dean for Administration at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, and eight years as Program Officer/ Communications Director for the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. Previously, he served in the U.S. Congress as a Deputy Press Secretary for U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen and as a Legislative Aide and Press Secretary for U.S. Congressman Michael A. Andrews. During his career, Patterson has received a number of professional honors, most recently an Eyes of Texas Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Life at the LBJ School of Public Affairs in 2010 and a Lone Star Emmy Award in 2005 as executive producer of the PBS documentary Are the Kids Alright? Tales of Mental Health Services in Texas while at the Hogg Foundation. As a reporter and editor in Houston during the 1980s, he received a number of awards for news reporting, feature writing, and newspaper and magazine design from the Associated Press Managing Editors Association, the Texas Press Association, the Texas Daily Newspaper Association. Patterson is a doctoral candidate in the UT College of Communication and teaches graduate courses in public affairs communications, writing for the mass media, and public relations management at the University. He has a master’s degree in journalism and public affairs from The American University in Washington, D.C., a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Houston, and an associate’s degree in journalism from San Jacinto College. |
