Patty works at Old National Bank as the Community Outreach Officer and has been with ONB since 2005, where she started as a writer in the newly-created Creative Services Department.
Prior to joining Old National, she spent a total of 15 years serving homeless adults and children in Europe and Brazil. After moving to Evansville in 1999, she took the role of education, consumer and medical reporter and producer for Fox 7 News for two years. She then joined the Vanderburgh County Commissioners’ office, where she developed a number of events and programs, including County Government Week and Girls in Bloom, a day of activities focused on building healthy self-esteem through the arts in fifth- through eighth-grade girls. She served as director of this program, which debuted in 2003, for its first five years.
Patty was the lead editor on the task force that produced The Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness in Evansville and Vanderburgh County. She currently serves as a member of the City-County Commission on Homelessness and co-chairs the Homeless Youth Coalition, a task-force charged with implementing recommendations designed to end homelessness among youth 13-23 in the Evansville community. She serves on the board of Aurora and chairs its education committee. She volunteers for Art for Life, United Methodist Youth Home, SWIRCA, and works with a number of other civic and charitable organizations, including serving as Indiana’s Lead volunteer for the American Cancer Society’s advocacy arm, the ACS Cancer Action Network.
Because of her work in creating solutions for homelessness and to public policy advocacy Old National Bancorp President and CEO Bob Jones asked her to research ways the company could strengthen its impact in strengthening low- to moderate- income areas within its footprint. The company identified the Bank on Cities model for implementation, and Patty served for nine months as a loaned executive to the City of Evansville to manage the “Bank on Evansville” project, an initiative designed to help area residents outside the banking system keep more of the money they’ve earned through access to second chance and starter bank accounts. She is currently working with the Indiana State Treasurer to create and execute Bank on Indiana.
She is the recipient of Old National’s 2007 Wayne Henning Old National Volunteer of the Year award, USI Phenomenal Women of the Community award, National Daily Points of Light award, Leadership Evansville recognition for individual achievement in government and public service, the 2009 American Cancer Society Great Lakes Division IN-MI Heart of Advocacy award, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network’s 2009 State Lead Volunteer of the Year award, and the 2009 Tri-State Alliance Thomas R. Earley Humanitarian Award for service to the HIV/AIDS community.
