Patricia Clark, a longtime resident of Newtown, Connecticut, lives a couple of miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School where 20 children and 6 adults were shot and killed on December 14, 2012. She has been an NRA board member since 1999. Clark serves as the Chair of the NRA Nominating Committee, Chair of the Air Gun Committee, Vice Chair of NRA's Smallbore Rifle and Youth Programs Committees and as a member of the Executive Committee, Competition Rules & Programs Committee, and Finance Committee. She is a former Director of the Connecticut State Rifle and Revolver Association.