PAT BINNINGER
About Pat
1967 – 1972: After graduating from Grace Institute Secretarial School in Manhattan in 1967, I worked for W. R. Grace and Company for a year and then took a job in the Chemistry Department of SUNY Stony Brook for several months. Went back to Manhattan with NY Community Trust until 1971, then headed back to Long Island for a position in the Computer Center at Suffolk Community College in Selden.
1972 – 1979: Recruited by FBI to work in administrative assistant positions at their headquarters in Washington, DC, and spent almost seven years with them, including five years at their training academy in Quantico, VA. Returned to FBI HQ in Washington, DC, until April 1979, when I moved to a position at the U.S. Department of Justice.
1979 – 1996: Spent seventeen years (1979 – 1996) with DOJ in increasingly more responsible administrative positions, including in the Offices of the Attorney General (under Attorney Generals William French Smith, Edwin Meese) and Deputy Attorney General (Edward Schmultz, William Barr, Phillip Heymann and Jamie Gorelick), as well as served as primary administrative assistant on the House Bank Investigation (1992 -1993).
1985 – 1987: Also worked as an AA at the White House Office of the Counsel to the President (1985) and Office of the Secretary of the Treasury (1985-1986).
1996 – 2004: Left DOJ for the U.S. Marshals Service in 1996 to head up the Management Support Team for their Executive Services Division and retired in 2004 as the Executive Secretary for the U.S. Marshals Service.
2004 – 2006: Within two months of retirement, returned to USMS Office of Internal Affairs as a contractor with Pitney Bowes Government Services.
2006 – 2014: Accepted position as Middle School Secretary for St. Mary Catholic School in Alexandria, VA. Finally retired in 2014.
Volunteer Activities:
Served as Secretary and President of Edsall Terrace Council of Co-Owners (condo board) between 1986 – 1988;
Treasurer of Wakefield-Tarleton Civic Association (periodically between 1999 – 2003)
Basilica of St. Mary, Alexandria, VA –
2000 – Present:
Collection Counter
Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion
Parish-School Liaison with Arlington Diocese Office for the Protection of Children
Travel:
National (23 states and Puerto Rico)
International – Bermuda, England, Switzerland, Ireland, Italy, Israel.
Received an Associate of Science degree from Northern Virginia Community College in 2001 – took one course per semester since 1979 to avoid college debt
Little free or down time – travel to visit siblings in South Carolina, Indiana, California and New York; attend Deep Water Aerobics classes twice a week; movies, plays, concerts
Blessed to have met many good people over the years and hope to continue doing so as long as I’m healthy!
Followed my aunt’s advice “Love many, trust few, always paddle your own canoe!”
