Dorothy Patterson, a resident of Berkeley, Calif., is a former UUSC board president. Before becoming president in 1993, Ms. Patterson served on the American Civil Liberities Union of Northern California and was on former Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s Advisory Council on Vocational Education. Ms. Patterson has represented UUSC in the international human rights community, including the 1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing and on a fact-finding mission to Haiti while the country was under the rule of dictator Raoul Cedras.