PERSON: Lynne Patton

Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Minority Outreach

Lynne Martine Patton (born 1973) is an American event planner and former Trump Administration political appointee.

She was designated in June 2017 by President Donald Trump to head Region II of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which oversees New York and New Jersey, and remained in the role until Trump left office in January 2021. She was twice found to have violated the Hatch Act, a federal law restricting the political activities of federal executive-Branch employees, and in 2021 was fined and barred from government service for four years.

Before she was appointed to HUD, Patton worked as an event planner for the Trump family, including planning the wedding of Eric Trump, and helping to run the Eric Trump Foundation. She was a speaker at the 2016 Republican National Convention.

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