Michelle Paige Paterson
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Michelle R. Paige Paterson (born April 1, 1961[1] in Fairfield, California[2]) is the First Lady of New York state. The wife of New York Governor David Paterson, she became the First Lady on March 17, 2008, when her husband was sworn in as Governor, following the resignation of Eliot Spitzer. Paige Paterson is the first African American First Lady in New York's history.
Michelle Paige Paterson spent her early years in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City before moving to Staten Island, another New York City borough.[2] She attended Syracuse University and earned a graduate degree in health-care management from the Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy. She has been married to David Paterson since November 21, 1992; he is her second husband. They have a son together (born February 1994) and Paige Paterson has a daughter from her first marriage, who has been raised by Paterson as well.[3]
Paige Paterson is a "health-care management expert" at the Health Insurance Plan of New York HMO and previously worked at North General Hospital in Manhattan, where she did some work as a lobbyist.[4]
Paige Paterson and her husband have homes in Schenectady and in Harlem.
On March 18, 2008, Paige Paterson and her husband both admitted to having had affairs with other people.[5]
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- Biography on New York state's website
- New York Daily News profile of and interview with Paige Paterson, 15 March 2008
- "1st Lady-in-Waiting Has 'Health'y Ambition" (New York Post profile of Paige Paterson, 12 March 2008)
- "Former Lobbyist, First Lady Paterson a Health Care Booster" (New York Daily News, 12 March 2008)
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| Preceded by Silda Wall Spitzer |
First Lady of New York 2008 –present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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