Patricia M. Collins

Born Patricia McGuigan in Colombia and raised in Port Jervis, New York, Collins earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Maine in 1970 and a second bachelor's degree in art from the University of Maine at Presque Isle. ==Career==

Collins has been active on many local and state boards and organizations. She was a member of the Caribou School Board from 1967 to 1975, serving as chair of that body in her final year. In 1987 she became a member of the University of Maine Board of Trustees, serving as chairman of that board from 1991 to 1994. In 1993 she was a member of the board's five-person search committee for a new University of Maine chancellor following the resignation of Robert Woodbury. Mayoralty Collins joined the Caribou City Council in 1978. Her appointment made her and her husband the first married couple to each serve as mayor of the city; Donald Collins was the second mayor of Caribou in 1968. ==Other activities==

Collins is an artist. In 1991 she exhibited her portrait series of Maine legislators at several University of Maine venues. ==Honors and awards==

In 2005 she was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame. With the induction of her daughter, United States Senator Susan Collins, in 2011, it marked the first time both a mother and daughter became members of the Maine Women's Hall of Fame. ==Family==

She and her husband Donald had six children. ==References==