James E Patterson

I am a former U.S. diplomat and a life member of the American Foreign Service Association. I reported from Brazil, Mexico, The Netherlands, Canada, the U.K., Chile, Venezuela, Peru, France, Argentina, and Washington DC. I write on financial crime, foreign affairs, finance, and cyber. Memberships include American Society of Journalists and Authors, National Book Critics Circle, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, California State Society, New York State Society. Dad was a Korean vet who served with Alabama's National Guard 1962-67 for Cuban Missile Crisis, Selma to Montgomery March, integration of the Univ of Alabama. I have a role as a reporter in 2015's "Selma." I contribute to Alabama Voices with Montgomery Advertiser. In 1954, Albert Patterson, a relative and an attorney who had won the Democratic nomination for Attorney General, was murdered by mob assassins in Phoenix City, Alabama.

My political battles are legendary. See New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/22/business/at-work-promotions-and-family-matters.html My reporting changed the personnel policies of the U.S. Foreign Affairs Agencies.

See https://glreview.org/supreme-job-blow-to-jesse-helms/ In this case, my reporting eventually led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of LGBT workers. After my encounters with Helms, my work appeared in Bay Area Reporter, Bay Times, [both San Francisco], San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, The Hill, Washington Times, The Advocate, Raleigh News & Observer, many more.