Pat Stack

A native of NYC, Pat Stack has lived in Northern Virginia since 1980 and in Oakton since 1991. Pat is the daughter of a New York City firefighter, who left County Waterford, Ireland to find opportunity in the US. She and her two siblings grew up in a modest apartment in the Bronx. Pat was always academically inclined and intellectually curious. Graduating first in her class from an all-girls Catholic high school in 1971, Pat won a National Merit Scholarship and an additional scholarship to Princeton University and was one of only a small number of women admitted to the class of 1975 at Princeton (the third class to admit women to Princeton). She later left Princeton to return to her native city and completed her degree at Columbia University, cum laude. Pat then went on to earn a JD Degree in 1980, at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Marrying in 1980, Pat and her husband ...