During her tenure, voters have also sided with Republicans on a majority of ballot initiatives, including seven of the 11 on which the CAGOP took a position in 2020, two thirds of the ballot initiatives on which the party took a position in 2022, and 89 percent of the ballot initiatives on which the party took a position in 2024.

While serving as CAGOP Chairwoman, California Republicans have added over one million new Republicans to the voter rolls. She raised over $122 million for the Party. She built a robust and in-depth voter contact program that consists of more than 93,000 volunteers, leading the party to make nearly 50 million voter contacts in the past three election cycles. Part of the voter contact program’s innovative tactics included an early embrace and utilization of early voting, ballot harvesting, and ballot curing, 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.

Chairwoman Patterson made diverse community engagement a priority, recruiting and supporting candidates who reflect the districts they hoped to serve. She brought the Republican Party to communities where it may have never been before to engage voters about the party’s mission and learn about the issues that matter most to residents. During her three terms, the party made major strides within California’s Latino and AAPI communities.

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 three cycles alone, Trailblazers trained nearly 2,500 candidates and potential candidates. Today, 79 percent of the Republican members serving in the California Legislature are alums of the Trailblazers program.

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