Pat Brister

{{Short description|American politician (1946-2020)}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name= Patricia Phillips "Pat" Brister

|caption=

|office= President of St. Tammany Parish

|term_start=2012

|term_end=2020

|preceded=Kevin Davis

|succeeded=Michael B. Cooper

|office2=Chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party

|term_start2=2000

|term_end2=2004

|succeeded2=Roger F. Villere, Jr.

|preceded2=Francis Charles "Chuck" McMains, Jr.

|office3=Member of the St. Tammany Parish Council

|term_start3=2000

|term_end3=2008

|preceded3=New position replacing St. Tammany Parish Police Jury

|succeeded3=Reid Falconer

|birth_date= {{birth date|1946|12|6}}

|birth_place=Le Grange, Georgia, USA

|death_date={{death date and age|2020|2|3|1946|12|6}}

|death_place=Covington, Louisiana, USA

|residence=Mandeville, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana

|spouse=Joseph Stanley Brister, Jr.

|children=

|occupation=[Politician]

|footnotes=Active at all levels of the Republican Party, Brister is the first and thus far only woman to serve as Louisiana state chairman.

}}

Patricia Phillips Beck Brister, known as Pat Brister (1946-2020), a businesswoman and Republican politician from Mandeville, Louisiana, who was the form president of the government in St. Tammany Parish in the New Orleans suburbs.{{cite web|url=http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/10/pat_brister_cruises_to_victory.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026180458/http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2011/10/pat_brister_cruises_to_victory.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 26, 2011|title=Pat Brister cruises to victory in St. Tammany Parish president's race|publisher=nola.com|accessdate=October 23, 2011}}