Richard North Patterson was honored with an alumni achievement award from Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Mr. Patterson, a 1968 graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, joined the fraternity as an undergraduate in 1965. The award was presented during the fraternity’s Karnea convention held in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Patterson has served as an assistant attorney general for the State of Ohio; a trial attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco; and was the SEC’s liaison to the Watergate special prosecutor. More recently, Mr. Patterson was a partner in the San Francisco office of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, now Bingham-McCutchen. In 1993, he retired from the practice of law to devote his time to writing.

He has served on the boards of his undergraduate and law schools, the National Partnership for Women and Families, the Family Violence Prevention Fund, PEN Center West, and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, and was Chairman of Common Cause.