Lindh, Patricia Sullivan, 1928-

Patricia Sullivan Lindh was born in 1928 in Toledo, Ohio. She received a B.A. from Trinity College in 1950, and worked as a secretary, personnel consultant and adoption case worker in Chicago from 1950 to 1955. She was a teacher at the Singapore American School in 1956, an instructor at Nanyang University in Singapore in 1957, and editor of a Singapore American newspaper from 1957 to 1962. She served as Vice-Chairwoman of the Republican Party of Louisiana from 1970 to 1974, and in 1974 she was a Republican National Committeewoman from Louisiana. In 1974, Lindh served as Special Assistant to Counsellor Anne M. Armstrong in the White House. During the Ford administration, she served as Special Assistant to the President for Women, 1974 to 1976. She was responsible for liaison with women's organizations and overseeing the Office of Women's Programs (OWP). In March 1976, Lindh was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. In that office she promoted programs of international exchange such as the Fulbright Scholarship program and was responsible for administering the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961. She served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State until 1977. After 1978 she was Vice-President and Director of Corporate Communications for Bank of America in Los Angeles, California.