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Peattie Appointed Executive Director of Fair Housing of Marin

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Caroline Peattie

The Fair Housing of Marin (FHOM) Board of Directors has appointed Caroline Peattie as executive director, effective immediately.
Prior to her appointment Peattie was serving as the housing director of the organization. She has 17 years of experience at FHOM and 26 years in the fair housing field.Peattie began her fair housing work in 1987 at ECHO Fair Housing in Hayward and eventually became executive director of Sentinel Fair Housing in Oakland. Nancy Kenyon, FHOM’s founding Executive Director, hired Peattie as a Fair Housing Specialist in 1996.
She eventually became housing director at FHOM, supervising the fair housing and foreclosure counseling programs. She planned, researched, and co-authored Marin County’s 2010 Analysis of Impediments.
She also played an integral part in planning and conducting innovative fair housing investigative projects, such as the HUD-award winning Residential Care Facility Race Audit, numerous Voice Identification Audits, and a full range of other audit investigations across insurance, mortgage lending, sales, and rental housing markets.
In 2009, Peattie was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Fair Housing Alliance.
“The board is thrilled to have Caroline as the head of the FHOM team,” said Paula Allen, Fair Housing of Marin’s board president.
Peattie received her undergraduate education from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and earned a masters degree in the Management of Human Services at the Florence Heller School of Social Welfare at Brandeis University.

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Oakland Post: Week of November 26 – December 2, 2025

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IN MEMORIAM: William ‘Bill’ Patterson, 94

Bill devoted his life to public service and education. In 1971, he became the founding director for the Peralta Community College Foundation, he also became an administrator for Oakland Parks and Recreation overseeing 23 recreation centers, the Oakland Zoo, Children’s Fairyland, Lake Merritt, and the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center.

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William "Bill" Patterson, 94. Photo courtesy of the Patterson family.

William “Bill” Patterson, 94, of Little Rock, Arkansas, passed away peacefully on October 21, 2025, at his home in Oakland, CA. He was born on May 19, 1931, to Marie Childress Patterson and William Benjamin Patterson in Little Rock, Arkansas. He graduated from Dunbar High School and traveled to Oakland, California, in 1948. William Patterson graduated from San Francisco State University, earning both graduate and undergraduate degrees. He married Euradell “Dell” Patterson in 1961. Bill lovingly took care of his wife, Dell, until she died in 2020.

Bill devoted his life to public service and education. In 1971, he became the founding director for the Peralta Community College Foundation, he also became an administrator for Oakland Parks and Recreation overseeing 23 recreation centers, the Oakland Zoo, Children’s Fairyland, Lake Merritt, and the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center.

He served on the boards of Oakland’s Urban Strategies Council, the Oakland Public Ethics Commission, and the Oakland Workforce Development Board.

He was a three-term president of the Oakland branch of the NAACP.

Bill was initiated in the Gamma Alpha chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.

In 1997 Bill was appointed to the East Bay Utility District Board of Directors. William Patterson was the first African American Board President and served the board for 27 years.

Bill’s impact reached far beyond his various important and impactful positions.

Bill mentored politicians, athletes and young people. Among those he mentored and advised are legends Joe Morgan, Bill Russell, Frank Robinson, Curt Flood, and Lionel Wilson to name a few.

He is survived by his son, William David Patterson, and one sister, Sarah Ann Strickland, and a host of other family members and friends.

A celebration of life service will take place at Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center (Calvin Simmons Theater) on November 21, 2025, at 10 AM.

His services are being livestreamed at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1250167107131991/

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Euradell and William Patterson scholarship fund TBA.

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