Patricia Layton

Strategic Advisor, Wood Utilization + Design Institute, Clemson University

Pat Layton is Vice President of BlackBriar Environmental LLC. She serves part-time as the Strategic Advisor to Clemson’s Wood Utilization + Design Institute and a Professor Emerita of Forestry. She previously served for 12 years as the Institute’s founding director. The first 14 of her 26 years at Clemson were spent as Director of the School of Agricultural, Forest, and Environmental Sciences and as chair of the Forest Resources and Forestry and Natural Resources departments.

Before joining Clemson University, she held various positions for 21 years with the American Forest & Paper Association, Scott Paper Company, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Owens-Illinois. Much of her industrial career focused on forest policy, product marketing, sustainability, and forest genetics.