Patrica A. Owens (March 17, 1941 – July 23, 2024) was an American politician who was the mayor of Grand Forks, North Dakota, during the flood that devastated the city in April 1997.

She actively lobbied then-president Bill Clinton for funds to rebuild the city and construct a permanent flood protection system for the city and neighboring East Grand Forks, Minnesota.

[2] Then in 1997, after less than one year as mayor, the city was struck by the 1997 Red River Flood.

That same year, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of North Dakota.

[4] In 2004 when Florida was struck by a string of hurricanes, she was asked by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to act as an ambassador for them by trying to help give the victims some sort of hope.