American politician, Pat Schroeder has died. She died at the age of 82 on March 13, 2023. She died from complications of a stroke at a hospital in celebration.

A member of the US Democratic Party, Schroeder was the first female US Representative elected for Colorado. Also while in Congress, she became the first woman to serve on the House Armed Services Committee.

Schroeder was also a Congress member of the original Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families that was established in 1983.

Schroeder sat on the board of The League of Women Voters of Florida. She was also a supporter of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an organisation which advocates for the democratic reformation of the United Nations.