19 Facts About Patric Verrone

Patric Miller Verrone was born on September 29,1959 and is an American television writer and labor leader.

Patric Verrone served as a writer and producer for several animated television shows, most notably Futurama.

Patric Verrone graduated from Boston College Law School in 1984 after serving as editor of the Boston College Law Review.

Patric Verrone practiced law in Florida and California before becoming a television writer.

Patric Verrone began his career as a variety show writer, which included a late 1980s job as a monologue writer for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

Shortly after his work on The Tonight Show, Patric Verrone wrote for the popular animated program Rugrats in 1991.

The fourth season episode "The Sting," written by Patric Verrone, garnered nominations for an Emmy Award, Annie Award and a Writers Guild of America Award.

Patric Verrone has scripted seven issues of Futurama Comics, published by Bongo Comics.

In 2005, Patric Verrone was elected president of the Writers Guild of America, West with 68 percent of the vote, after pledging to devote up to 30 percent of the Guild's budget to organizing writers in reality television, animation, cable, and independent film.

Patric Verrone had previously served as secretary-treasurer for the organization and on the board of directors.

In 2011, Patric Verrone ran for a third term for president, and lost to Chris Keyser by a 20 percent margin.

In 2013, Patric Verrone ran for and was elected to a seat on the union's board of directors.

In 2019, Patric Verrone was on the negotiating committee for the "WGA-Agency Agreement", and joined other WGA members in firing his agents as part of the guild's stand against the ATA after the two sides were unable to come to an agreement on a new "Code of Conduct" that addressed the practice of packaging.

Patric Verrone has crafted the associate justices currently serving on the US Supreme Court, as well as all the other Chief Justices, and a few historically significant and recent justices.

Patric Verrone says his long term intention is to create a figurine of each of the 110 justices in the Court's history.

Patric Verrone has sculpted figurines of the eight US Presidents that Marx never made, every major party presidential nominee since 1944, and a series of famous American figurines including Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Mark Twain, and Frederick Douglass.

In 1989, Patric Verrone married television writer and novelist Maiya Williams.

In March 2014, Patric Verrone became a candidate for California State Senate in SD 26 on the west side of Los Angeles.

Patric Verrone lost in the primary to Ben Allen and Sandra Fluke.