Daniel Ryan Patterson

Biographical Information

The following is from ALIS for the 50th Arizona State Legislature, 1st Regular Session (2011):

Daniel Patterson  
Democrat  District 29
House of Representatives
1700 W. Washington
Room 117
Phoenix, AZ 85007
Phone Number: (602) 926-5342
Fax Number: (602) 417-3169
Email Address: [email protected]
Home City: Tucson
Occupation: Southwest Director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
Member Since: 2009
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Daniel Patterson is a progressive, independent and fiscally responsible Democratic Representative.

Daniel is a family man from south downtown Tucson, where his family generates solar power and grows food. He’s worked with many Arizona legislators, Governor Janet Napolitano, US Reps. Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords, and Republicans, Independents and Greens.

As a former Tucson Planning Commissioner, Center for Progressive Leadership Arizona Political Leaders Fellow, Board Member of the Pima County Board of Adjustment, and Santa Rita Park Neighborhood President, Daniel Patterson has demonstrated government and community leadership.

Mr. Patterson is an Ecologist with strong environmental, water and energy knowledge and planning skills to help quality of life in Tucson’s scenic, fragile and growing south and southeast areas of district 29, and across Arizona.

His priorities include improving the economy, education, health care, jobs, public safety, human & civil rights, water, transportation, energy and the environment.  Patterson's district 29 includes all of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.

Daniel Patterson is the Southwest Director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a national conservation service organization. He formerly worked with the US Department of the Interior-Bureau of Land Management, and later directed a major desert wildlife and natural resources program.  He also has business experience, having helped his family run a successful automotive company, and he ran his own consulting business.  

Daniel is a graduate of Michigan State University’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

April 2, 2012, Rep. Daniel Patterson left the Democrat Party and declared himself an independent. (Jim Small.  "Embattled Patterson leaves Dems; files as independent." azcapitoltimes.com, April 2, 2012:  "An embattled Tucson lawmaker this morning formally left the Democratic Party and became the Legislature’s only independent. Rep. Daniel Patterson announced on Twitter this morning that he was no longer a Democrat....")

April 11, 2012, Rep. Daniel Patterson resigned his seat in the Arizona House of Representatives. (Alia Beard Rau. "Rep. Daniel Patterson resigns from Arizona House: Says the chamber has become a hostile work environment." azcentral.com (Phoenix, AZ), April 11, 2012; Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services. "Facing likely expulsion from house, state legislator Patterson resigns." eastvalleytribune.com (Mesa, AZ), April 11, 2012

Filling the LD29 seat was complicated by the the fact that Rep. Patterson switched his party affiliation back to Democrat but apparently not until after he submitted his letter of resignation. (Associated Press. "Officials weigh timing of registration change for Daniel Patterson." abc15.com (Phoenix, AZ), April 12, 2012: "...And the Secretary of State's Office says computer records indicate Patterson made the change online at 2:01 p.m. That's after Patterson submitted his resignation to Speaker Andy Tobin to head off expulsion proceedings by the House...." ); Jim Nintzel. "Bennett: Supes Must Pick Independent To Fill Patterson's Seat." tucsonweekly.com, April 12, 2012:  "Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has informed Pima County Supervisor Ramon Valadez that state Rep. Daniel Patterson was an independent at the time of his resignation yesterday, so the seat is supposed to go to an independent...."

Education

Bachelor Science: Environmental Communications, Michigan State University, 1994.

Employment

Arizona Legislative Service

Sources

2011 Guide to the 50th Legislature 1st Regular Session (Arizona News Service); Middle Initial: U.S. Public Records

 

Education: 2012 Guide to the Legislature (Greenbook)