Senator patrick colbeck biography of william
Patrick J. Colbeck is an American engineer, author, and politician..
Patrick Colbeck is currently serving his second term as state senator for Michigan's 7th district.
Patrick Colbeck
American politician
Patrick J. Colbeck is an American engineer, author, and politician. He is a former Republican member of the Michigan Senate, having represented a northwestern portion of Wayne County from 2011 to 2019.
After reaching the two-term limit in the Michigan Senate, Colbeck unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for Governor of Michigan in 2018, where he came in third, receiving 13 percent of the vote.[1]
Early life
Colbeck was born on October 7, 1965, in Dearborn, Michigan.
He is a graduate of Detroit Catholic Central High School. He later graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with a Bachelors of Science in Aerospace Engineering in 1987 and a Masters of Science in Aerospace Engineering in 1988.[2] He went on to study Life Sciences for a summer at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France.[citation needed]
Colbeck was employed by Boeing as a Senior Design Engineer respon