Former Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), national trade organization of the U.S. book publishing industry. Mrs. Schroeder left Congress undefeated in 1996 after serving in the House of Representatives for 24 years. From January to June 1997, held the rank of Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, before assuming her post at AAP on June 1. She is currently leading New Century/New Solutions, an out-of-the-box think tank, for the Institute for Civil Society in Newton, Massachusetts, and Co-Chairs of the Democracy Online Project's National Task Force, which is funded by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts. Born in Portland, Oregon in 1940, Mrs. Schroeder graduated magna cum laude in 1961 from the University of Minnesota (working as an insurance claims adjuster to support herself through college). Mrs. Schroeder went on to Harvard Law School, one of only 15 women in a class of more than 500 men.