Lydia Patterson

Sarah Lydia Patterson was a Democratic Unionist Party politician who was High [Sheriff of Belfast] from January 2014 to 2015, and a Belfast [City Council]lor for the Castle DEA from 2010 to 2019 [Belfast City Council election|2019].

Background

Patterson was an unsuccessful Democratic Unionist Party candidate at the 2005 Belfast [City Council election|2005 City Council election], running in the Castle District.
She was later co-opted to the council in May 2010, succeeding long-serving Castle representative, Nigel Dodds. She was re-elected in 2011 [Belfast City Council election|2011].
In November 2013, Patterson was nominated to be the next High Sheriff of Belfast, taking office in January 2014.
She was subsequently re-elected in the May 2014 Council election.