Patricia Ann Finley McClelland was born in July 1944 in La Junta, Colorado, where her father was serving in the US Army. Her family returned to Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, when she was less than a year old.
McClelland attended the University of Arkansas from 1962 to 1965. She worked for McClelland Consulting Engineers Inc. full time for two years when the office opened in 1977 and continued to assist in the office until 2009.
McClelland was a docent for the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock. She has served on the Arkansas Children's Hospital Auxiliary beginning in 1977 and was on the Arkansas Governor's Mansion Association when Bill Clinton was governor. As a member of the 20th Century Club, McClelland established Hope Away From Home 20th Century Club's Lodge in the early 1980s. She founded Susan G. Komen Arkansas in Little Rock in 1990 and organized their first race in 1994. McClelland and her husband, Jim, support the J. E. and Maurice A. McClelland Endowed Scholarship in Civil Engineering at the University of Arkansas.
#1: Composite image of early photo of Pat McClelland and still frame from Pryor Center video interview
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#2: Pat McClelland's mother, Virginia Finley
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#3: Pat Finley (McClelland) with her mother, Virginia Finley, ca. 1945
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#4: Pat McClelland's grandparents, Mamie and W. K. Gaines, on their 60th wedding anniversary
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#5: Pat Finley (McClelland) in her sorority picture
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#6: Pat Finley (McClelland) (second from right) before her wedding with (from left) Jim McClelland's sister, Linda; his mother, Maurice; and Pat's mother, Virginia Finley; Fayetteville, Arkansas, spring 1965
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#7: Pat Finley McClelland with her father, Joe Finley, Trinity Methodist Church, Little Rock, Arkansas, June 12, 1965
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#8: Pat and Jim McClelland at their wedding, Trinity Methodist Church, Little Rock, Arkansas, June 12, 1965
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#9: Lake House, Hot Springs, Arkansas
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#10: Pat McClelland's parents, Joe and Virginia Finley
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#11: Pat McClelland (2nd from left) with Hillary Clinton (2nd from right)
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#12: Pat and Jim McClelland with their sons, Jay and Kirk, 1991
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#13: Pat McClelland (far right) at Five-a-Day press conference with Governor Jim Guy Tucker (center)
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#14: Pat McClelland (center) with Jane Hartz and Sherry Tuminollo, Race for the Cure, September 1996
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#15: Pat and Jim McClelland (right) with Zeke and Dee Robertson, Kathy and Jim Johnson, First Lady Hillary Clinton (center), and Pat and Bob Torvestad in the Diplomatic Reception Room, White House, Washington, DC; February 5, 1998
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#16: Pat McClelland, Stanley's Camp, Botswana, September 2004
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#17: Pat and Jim McClelland in front of Old Main, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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#18: Pat McClelland, with her daughter-in-law and son, Julie and Kirk McClelland, Towers of Old Main event, June 2017
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#19: Pat McClelland was a founding board member of the new Arkansas Children's Hospital Northwest.
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#20: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Pat McClelland; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2017
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#21: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Pat McClelland; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2017
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#22: Still frame from Pryor Center video interview with Pat McClelland; Fayetteville, Arkansas, 2017
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