Lynne Patton - Biography
Lynne Patton currently serves as Senior Advisor and Director of Coalitions, Donald J. Trump for President 2024, Inc.
She has worked for the former President and his family since 2009, earning her role as accomplished corporate executive, trusted aide, longtime confidante and family insider – a real-life “Apprentice.”
Patton was a Presidential Appointee and Regional Administrator under Secretary Ben Carson at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Trump Administration. She received national recognition for her achievements in the affordable housing industry, most notably for living in New York City Public Housing (NYCHA), which generated over 700 unique media hits per week on its dilapidated conditions and helped result in permanent federal oversight.
Named Commercial Observer’s “Power 100 in New York City,” Roll Call Magazine’s “17 Rising Political Stars in Washington DC,” and Newsmax’s “Top 20 Most Influential Black Republicans,” Patton has earned bipartisan credibility as an outspoken, prominent voice of the black conservative movement.
Patton was a keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention and Director of Trump’s National Diversity Coalition in 2016.
As former Vice President of the Eric Trump Foundation, Patton played an integral role in helping Eric Trump raise over $30 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
She appears regularly on Fox News, Newsmax, CNN, OANN, and is a prominent speaker at national conservative conferences, such as CPAC, Faith & Freedom Coalition, Black Conservative Federation and the Frederick Douglass Leadership Institute.