Susie Patton is a California native and lifelong horse and mule owner. She comes from a rodeo background and traveled that circuit as a child with her parents and brother. Her father was a rodeo clown and bullfighter and later produced rodeos. She met her husband Troy as a kid, working around the rodeo. She worked as a rodeo secretary for 15 years. Susie later worked as a school secretary for 30 years and, upon their retirement, Troy and Susie moved to the Eastern Sierra. She continued her involvement with schools and served as president of her local school board. Troy and Susie have been married over 50 years and have one son, four granddaughters, two great-granddaughters, and two great-grandsons. Susie has served as a BCHC Eastern Sierra Unit Secretary, Treasurer and Public Lands Chair. At the State level she was Public Lands VP then State Secretary, and served on the Bylaws Committee, before taking on the new role of Rendezvous Secretary.