Pat Layton is the Strategic Advisor to Clemson’s Wood Utilization + Design Institute and a retired professor of forestry. She previously served for 12 years as the Institute’s founding director. She spent the first 14 of her 26 years at Clemson as Director of the School of Agricultural, Forest, and Environmental Sciences and chairing the Forest Resources and Forestry and Natural Resources departments.

Before joining Clemson University, she held various positions with the American Forest & Paper Association, Scott Paper Company, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Owens-Illinois. She served on the Board of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative for the last six years.

Pat is a native of South Carolina and has forestry degrees from Clemson University, Texas A&M University, and the University of Florida.