Mark A. Patterson is an American lobbyist, former vice president and managing director of Goldman Sachs, and former Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of the Treasury. In 2018, he was hired as general counsel for Senator Chuck Schumer, overseeing investigations and appropriations and leaving his position at law firm

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Early life and education

Patterson was born in

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. His mother was a librarian while his father was a high school English teacher. He graduated from the

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in 1984. He received his J.D. degree from

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in 1990.

Career

Patterson was the special assistant of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan from 1984 to 1988 before entering law school. Patterson later served as Moynihan's legislative director (1993-1995), and as Democratic staff director and chief counsel of the Senate Finance Committee (1995-1999). From 1999 to 2004 Patterson was the policy director for Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle. In 2004 Patterson became a lobbyist for Goldman Sachs, with the position of vice president (2004-2007), and managing director (2007-2008). Patterson left Goldman Sachs in April 2008, after which time he served as a volunteer for the Obama-Biden presidential campaign, and as the Senate confirmation coordinator for the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Project. Upon the inauguration of

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, Patterson was in February 2009 appointed chief of staff to the

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. In 2013, after the long-anticipated departure of secretary

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, secretary

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announced Patterson's replacement. Patterson worked as a partner in Perkins Coie's Washington, D.C. office before joining Senator Schumer's team in May 2018.

Personal life

Patterson is married to Jennifer S. Leete, a former assistant director in the Enforcement Division of the

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and, as of 2022, a partner in the start-up Washington, D.C. office of New York law firm

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. The start-up was being led by

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, former chair of the FDIC, and also included Elad Roisman, former commissioner and acting chair of the SEC.Williams, Claire
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'', June 6, 2022. Retrieved 2023-12-19. Patterson is a member of the bar of the

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and of the Supreme Court of the United States.

References

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