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Pat has responsibility for the People Division for Wal-Mart Stores Division. She was promoted to her current position in 2007.
Pat has a distinguished background with Wal-Mart, beginning her career in 1983 as an hourly associate in the pets department and then moving on to Department Manager, Assistant Manager, Co-Manager and Store Manager. Pat has also worked as a Regional Personnel Manager, District Manager, Operations Coordinator, Regional Vice President, and Divisional Merchandise Manager. In 2003, she was promoted to Senior Vice President of Wal-Mart store operations for the division that included Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Delaware, and Ohio. She was promoted to Executive Vice President of Wal-Mart store operations in 2005. In that position she had responsibility for the operations of the retailer’s more than 3,800 Discount, Supercenter, and Neighborhood Market stores in the United States.
Pat is active in many organizations and boards. She is a member of the Center for Retailing Excellence at the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, the Network of Executive Women, Coca-Cola Retailing Research Council, and the Single Parent Scholarship Fund of Washington County. She also is the executive sponsor of PRIDE, Wal-Mart’s gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender associate resource group, and the executive sponsor of Speaking of Women’s Health, Wal-Mart’s educational initiative for women’s health. | 