Patricia Lofton Hardaway is an American labor lawyer and academic administrator who was the 19th president of Wilberforce University from 2008 to 2013.
[1][2] Hardaway is a labor lawyer who as worked on employment discrimination cases in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey.
After conflicts with the faculty association and student protests over dormitories and living conditions, Hardaway announced in July 2013 that she would resign on December 31.
[2] Hardaway was the interim provost of Mills College at Northeastern University and oversaw the academic affairs division.
[2] On August 7, 2023, she became the acting interim chief human resources officer of the University of California, succeeding Nancy Pluzdrak.