Pat Collier Frank Explained

Pat Collier Frank
Office:Member of the Florida Senate
Term:1979–1988
Birth Date:21 November 1929
Birth Place:Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Party:Democratic
Occupation:business economist
Spouse:Richard Harlan Frank
Children:three
Alma Mater:University of Florida
Georgetown University School of Law

Pat Collier Frank (born November 21, 1929) is an American politician in the state of Florida.

Frank was born in Ohio and came to Florida in 1935. She attended the University of Florida and Georgetown University School of Law. A business economist, she served in the Florida State Senate from 1979 to 1988, as a member of the Democratic Party (23rd district).[1] [2] She also served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1976 to 1978. She was elected to her fourth term as Clerk of the Court in Hillsborough County, Florida, (Tampa), where she has resided since 1961.

She was among the first class of women admitted to Georgetown University School of Law, where she met her husband, the late Judge Richard Harlan Frank, Second District Court of Appeals, (Florida). Judge Frank and Pat Collier met while in law school in a contracts class, where they later decided, "to make one of their own", (as Pat Frank phrased it). They were married 93 days after meeting in that Contracts class, on December 22, 1951, at the Washington National Cathedral, in Washington, D.C.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Florida Senators. uflib.ufl.edu. September 21, 2014.
  2. http://archive.flsenate.gov/data/Publications/Archive/SenateHandbooks/pdf/82-84%20Senate%20Handbook.pdf Florida Senate Handbook 1982–84