About Jim Patterson, writer and speaker
James (Jim) Patterson JEPWriter.com James (Jim) Patterson is a life member of the American Foreign Service Association. He served in diplomatic posts and assignments in Mexico, Europe (UK, France, The Netherlands), Brazil, Chile, and Washington, DC. He reported from many other countries. Patterson is an international economist (Auburn University, Foreign Service Institute, Georgetown). Prior to the Foreign Service, he served as an economist at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC, under the leadership of Secretary Howard Malcolm "Mac" Baldrige Jr. Patterson's father, James G. Patterson, served in Korea in the 1950s, and later with the Alabama Army National Guard during the civil rights struggle. The senior Patterson served at the integration of the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa in June 1963 and in March 1965 at the third civil rights march led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. The junior Patterson has a non-spea...