During her tenure as CAGOP Chairwoman, California Republicans have added over 821,000 new Republicans to the voter rolls and raised nearly $108 million for the Party. She built a robust and in-depth voter contact program that consists of 93,000 volunteers, leading the party to make over 49 million voter contacts in the past three election cycles – a 90 percent increase from the 2020 cycle. Part of the voter contact program’s innovative tactics included an early embrace and utilization of ballot harvesting, making sure the CAGOP was meeting voters where they were and ensuring no votes would be left on the table. To further facilitate the grassroots efforts needed to win campaigns, the CAGOP also developed the C.A.R.E.S. (California Republican Engagement System) program to catalog every contact and volunteer the party has.

Prior to her election as Chairwoman, Patterson was CEO and co-founder of California Trailblazers. Modeled after the national Young Guns program, Trailblazers is an organization that recruits, trains and helps elect Republican candidates across California. Before bringing Trailblazers in house at CAGOP following her election, Trailblazers helped facilitate $6 million in independent expenditures to its candidates. Trailblazers has elevated 184 candidates over the years through its rigorous three-tiered program, setting goals and benchmarks to help Republicans achieve victory. In the last two cycles alone, Trailblazers trained nearly 2,500 candidates and potential candidates. Today, 69 percent of the Republican members serving in the California Legislature, including every freshman member, are alums of the Trailblazers program.

Patterson has held positions with the California Republican Party, Republican National Committee, and statewide and national candidates for nearly two decades, including leadership positions for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and Senator John McCain.