Sarah Patterson has practiced law for over 25 years, and represented her first Social Security disability claimant in 1983. Since then, she has represented thousands of claimants in a dozen states, focusing her practice exclusively on Social Security disability and SSI cases, She now works exclusively in claims involving HIV and AIDS.
 
She is a member of the National Organization of Social Security Representatives, and served as the elected board representative of the Ninth Federal Judicial Circuit to that organization.  She has served on many nonprofit boards, and was an elected member of the Board of Governors of the Kentucky Bar Association.  Sarah began her career working for Legal Services in Louisville, KY after graduating from the University of Louisville School of Law and Marquette University. 
 
In 1990, Sarah Patterson relocated to San Francisco, where she was the founding partner of Patterson & McCombs, a firm dedicated to representing people with Social Security and SSI claims and appeals.  In 1998 she went to Portland to do a year of volunteer work at the Cascade AIDS Project, where she coordinated the legal clinic.  Ms. Patterson has practiced Social Security disability law in California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Arizona, Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina, Nevada, Montana, Colorado and Tennessee.
 
Phone: 503-239-8846 
Email PDXSSCLAIMS@aol.com