Patti is a NYC native who made Charlotte her home more than 30 years ago.

Patti and her husband, Chris Hudson, have two grown sons and were recently blessed with a new daughter-in-law. In addition to her work in the legal and accounting fields, Patti has spent many hours volunteering at her sons’ schools, local charities, and within the Charlotte arts community. She loves art, music, and the performing arts, plays several sports, and even holds her private pilot’s license.

DWTS will be a challenge Patti is excited to undertake, and she feels fortunate to join the fight against breast cancer while helping to promote compassionate, yet greatly underfunded, pediatric and adolescent mental healthcare. Patti’s father lost his mother to breast cancer before he turned five, her own mother is a survivor, and she has lost other beloved women in her life to this devastating disease.