Judge Patricia Mayberry earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the University of Missouri – Columbia.  She earned a Juris Doctorate from Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University and a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Houston. 

Her legal career included serving the United States Air Force as a Judge Advocate, a trial attorney with the Immigration and Naturalization Service, an Administrative Law Judge for the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, and, a Labor Law Attorney with the United States Air Force at the Los Angeles Air Force Base. 

Also, she served as the First Vice President of the Fifth Episcopal District Lay Organization and a member of Price Chapel A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles where she served as the parliamentarian of the local lay organization, a member of the Women’s Missionary Society, and as the Vice-Chair of the Steward Board.

Judge Mayberry transitioned on May 2, 2022. She is survived by her mother Mrs. Shirley Hawkins; sister, Marilyn Edmondson; and brother, Rev. Dr. Harold R. Mayberry, Presiding Elder of the Oakland/San Joaquin District of the California Annual Conference and Chair of the Episcopal Committee of the General Conference since 2004.

Please keep the family in prayer at this time. Arrangements are forthcoming.