Patricia L Ross

Patricia L. Ross is a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), where she has served since 2011. Over the past decade, Ross has led a broad domestic policy portfolio in both the Speaker’s Leadership and Congressional Offices, covering veterans’ affairs and military families, agriculture and nutrition, education and labor. She has spearheaded major bipartisan agreements in these arenas, including the COVID-19 response, CHOICE Act, MISSION Act, Forever GI Bill, Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act, Deborah Sampson Act, Every Student Succeeds Act, 2014 and 2018 Farm Bills, and ending the Widows and Kiddie Tax. As Senior Policy Advisor, Ross has supported and helped coordinate multiple bipartisan traveling Congressional delegations, including the 75th anniversary of the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy and Battle of the Bulge, as well as staffed multiple State of the Union addresses, Inaugurations, and Joint Addresses to Congress by heads of state. Ross is the daughter, granddaughter and niece of Veterans and a native Ohioan. Ross is a graduate of The College of Wooster (Ohio) and currently lives in Washington, D.C. with her partner, also a Veteran, and two dogs.