Patricia A. King
Patricia Ann King | |
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| Born | June 12, 1942 Norfolk, Virginia, U.S. |
| Education | Wheaton College (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
| Occupation | Professor of law emeritus |
| Employer | Georgetown University Law Center |
| Known for | First African-American tenured Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, Bioethics and the law |
| Movement | Civil Rights |
| Board member of | National Academies of Science Board on Health Sciences Policy, Harvard Corporation (2006 – 2012) |
| Spouse | Roger Wilkins |
| Children | Elizabeth Wilkins |
Patricia A. King (born June 12, 1942) is an American lawyer, educator and civil rights activist who is a professor of law emeritus at Georgetown University Law Center and an adjunct professor in the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Her expertise lies at the intersection of law, medicine, ethics, and public policy. In 1979, she became the first African-American woman law professor to receive tenure at Georgetown.