{{short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Patricia Blevins | office = President pro tempore of the Delaware Senate | term_start = 2013 | term_end = 2017 | predecessor = Anthony DeLuca | successor = David McBride | state_senate1 = Delaware | district1 = 7th | term_start1 = 1990 | term_end1 = 2017 | predecessor1 = Robert T. Still | successor1 = Anthony Delcollo | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | party = Democratic | alma_mater = Temple University }} '''Patricia "Patti" Blevins''' is an American politician and the former President pro tempore of the Delaware Senate. A Democrat, she represented the 7th district from 1990 until 2016, when she lost her reelection campaign by 282 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elections.delaware.gov/archive/elect16/elect16_general/html/election.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223223533/http://elections.delaware.gov/archive/elect16/elect16_general/html/election.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 23, 2016|title=State of Delaware General Election Official Results|date=November 8, 2016|publisher=Delaware Commissioner of Elections|location=Dover, Delaware|accessdate=January 2, 2019}}</ref> Blevins served as Majority Leader of the Delaware Senate from 2009 to 2012 and Majority Whip from 2007 to 2009.<ref>{{cite web |title=Senator Patricia M. Blevins (D) |url=https://legis.delaware.gov/AssemblyMember/148/Blevins |website=Delaware General Assembly |access-date=June 17, 2021}}</ref> She was on the town council and mayor of Elsmere, Delaware from 1985 to 1990. She attended Mount Pleasant High School and received her BA in psychology from Temple University in 1975.<ref>{{cite web|title=Senator Patti Blevins's Biography|url=http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/5727|publisher=VoteSmart|accessdate=4 September 2012}}</ref>
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