Background
Duff, Patricia was born on April 12, 1954 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Daughter of Robert Orr and Mary Williamson.
Duff, Patricia was born on April 12, 1954 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Daughter of Robert Orr and Mary Williamson.
Student, International School Brussels, 1971. Student, Barnard College. Bachelor of Science in International Economics, Georgetown University, 1976.
Duff founded a non-profit, non-partisan organization, The Common Good, in New York in 2007. The organization puts on forums, panels and special events to encourage greater citizen participation in civic life and the political process. Speakers have included national leaders and experts on public policy issues such as Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski on foreign policy.
Nouriel Roubini, Alan Blinder, Peter Peterson on economic issues.
Governors Kathleen Sebelius and Editor Rendell. Senators Mitch McConnell and Amy Klobuchar on domestic issues, among many other speakers and topics.
Immediately after graduation from college, Duff first worked on the House Select Committee on Assassinations as Special Assistant to the Chief Counsel, Senior Researcher, and Public Information Officer. Duff then worked with former Presidential speech writer, John McLaughlin, to produce his live political talk radio show.
She left to work for the re-election campaign of President Jimmy Carter at the Democratic National Committee and with presidential pollster Pat Caddell.
Following her work on that campaign, she was made Vice President of Caddell"s firm and worked on many political statewide campaigns and corporate marketing campaigns until she was hired by Bob Squier to join the Squier-Eskew consulting firm as Vice President. After working on numerous senate and gubernatorial campaigns, Duff moved in 1984 to Los Angeles to work with the Gary Hart Presidential campaign. Duff was an activist in Democratic Party politics and a number of causes.
She was regularly cited in the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times on politics.
She was named a "Rising Star" by the Los Angeles Times in 1986 and one of the "Women we Love" by Esquire magazine for her work in politics as the "conscience" of the entertainment industry. The New York Social Diary called her "the most high profile entertainment industry-related female political figure in Los Los Angeles" Although a lifelong Democrat, Duff has also visibly supported Republicans, notably Richard Riordan for Mayor in Los Angeles and Michael Bloomberg for Mayor in New New York
In the late 1980s, Duff started an entertainment industry-related non-partisan political organization called Show Coalition, which became an important element in the nexus between Washington politics and Hollywood and the precursor to The Common Good.
Founder American Spirit Awards, 1992. Chair New York Governor's Task Force on Teen Pregnancy, 1994—1995, Women Vote Campaign of Emily's List, 1996, Saves Women's Leadership Council, 1999—2004. Member platform committee Democratic National Convention, 1984, 1992.
Member Hollywood Women's Political Committee, 1986. Co-chair New York finance committee Clinton for President, 1996. Board directors People for the American Way, 1996—2002.
Member board councilors Ascus school public policy and administration University Southern California. Founder, chair, board directors Common Good Show Coalition, Los Angeles, since 1988. Member board visitors School Foreign Service Georgetown University, since 1988.
Member private sector advisory board Inter American Development Bank. Board trustees Save the Children, chairman, 2006. Board directors Los Angeles Colors United, Summer of Service, National Service, 1993, Los Angeles Commission on Status of Women, 1994—1996, Women in Film, since 1990, Lincoln Center Film Society, 1995—2000.
Trustee National Public Radio, American Ballet Theatre, 1995—1996. Member Presidential Commission on Library. of Congress Trust Fund, 1994—2000. Founder Families for Justice, 2004.
Married Ronald Perelman. 1 child, Caleigh Sophia Perelman.