Background
Griggs, Patsy A. was born on April 9, 1947 in Scottsboro, Alabama, United States. Daughter of Virgil William and Martha Susanna Griggs.
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Patsy A. Griggs
Edit ProfileEducation
Diploma in nursing, Samford U., 1965; diploma in nurse midwifery, State University of New York, 1971.
Career
Staff nurse labor & delivery, Baptist Medical Center, Birmingham, 1968-1969;
from staff to charge nurse labor & delivery, U. Alabama Medical Center, Birmingham, 1969-1970;
intern, Cmty. Hospital, Springfield, Ohio., 1971;
family planning clinician, state nursing consultant, Tennessee Department Public Health, Nashville, 1971-1972;
nurse-midwife, PRIDE Inc., Logan, West Virginia, 1973-1974;
director nurse-midwifery service, Tennessee Department Health Maternal & Infant Care Project, Dyersburg, 1974-1978;
nurse clinician, Memorial Hospital, Johnson City, Tennessee, 1978-1979;
instructor, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, 1979-1980;
consultant, instructor clinical pastoral education, Johnson City Medical Center Hospital, since 1993;
president, Improvements Unlimited LLC, since 1996. Clinical educator U. Mississippi Medical Center Department Ob-Gyn, Jackson, 1976-1978.
Instructor East Tennessee State University, 1978-1979. Professional consultant committee advisory board Department Pastoral Care Johnson City Medical Center, 1992, chair Gay and Lesbian Concerns committee, 1992. Co-founder Tennessee Ballet Theatre, 1992, president, 1993.
Achievements
Membership
Washington County director Dukakis Campaign, Nashville, 1988. Volunteer Rape Crisis Center, Johnson City, 1983-1986. Co-founder Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament of Upper East Tennessee, Inc., 1984, president, 1984-1987, national.bd. directors, Boston, 1985-1992, vice president, United States delegate World Congress Women in Moscow, 1987.
Camp counselor, nurse Watauga Mental Health Center Youth Camp, 1984, 85. Co-founder Women's Vote Project. Board directors Tennessee Freeze Voters.
President Holston Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, board directors, director programs, director finance. Member League of Women Voters, Physicians for Social Responsibility, American College Nurse-Midwives, Unitarian Universsalist Association (board directors Thomas Jefferson district).
Connections
Married Philip Wentworth Ford, May 31, 1980. 1 child, Kevin Virgil.
