Carrin Patman

Carrin Foreman Patman (born April 20, 1956)

Career Patman has a distinguished record of civic engagement, which includes service as a member of the Houston Chapter of the International Women’s Forum, and on the boards of the Greater Houston Partnership and the Houston-Galveston Area Transportation Policy Council. Patman was also a Founding Board Member of The Center for Women in Law, as well as an executive committee member of Girls, Inc. of Greater Houston and Sheltering Arms Senior Services. She was a member of the board of Houston Metro from 2010 to 2022 and was appointed chair by Sylvester Turner in 2016. Patman was a major fundraiser to the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign and Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign.

Ambassador to Iceland On February 11, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Patman to be the next United States ambassador to Iceland. She presented her credentials to President Guðni Th. Jóhannesson on October 6, 2022.

Awards and recognitions Patman has received multiple awards and was the first woman to receive the Karen H. Susman Jurisprudence Award, given by the Anti-Defamation League Southwest Region. Her paternal grandfather Wright Patman also served in the U.S. House, and her maternal grandfather Fred Mauritz was a Texas state senator.

In 1997, Carrin Patman married James V. Derrick Jr, former executive vice president and general counsel to Enron Corporation.