Celebrating The Patman Center!
The Patman Center's annual Leadership Symposium brings friends, students, and former speakers together to celebrate the year's accomplishments, build fellowship and offer networking opportunities to our students, and hear from real-world civic leaders about public service, civic engagement, and policy. We welcome our Patman Scholars at the event, as well as our Advisory Committee, and Research Award recipients.
After a networking reception attendees were invited to dinner and a fireside chat with bipartisan speakers about civic leadership. In Fall 2024, our speakers were former United States Trade Representative and Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk (D) and former U.S. Representative Mimi Walters (R-California).
The 2nd Annual Leadership Symposium will be held November 11, 2025. Our keynote speakers will be Dr. Molly Beth Malcolm (D) and Johnny Sutton (R) in conversation about the foundations of their bipartisan friendship across political divides.
November 11, 2025
5:00 pm Networking Reception
5:45 pm Dinner
6:30 pm Program begins
