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| Name | Patricia Barnes |
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| Info | Patricia Barnes is the founder and vice president, product development and manufacturing, for Sister Schubert’s Homemade Rolls, a subsidiary of Lancaster Colony’s T. Marzetti Co. specialty foods division.
Barnes was nicknamed Sister “at birth” by her older sister, who couldn’t pronounce Patricia. A native of Troy, Alabama, Barnes attended Troy University and studied interior design at the University of Alabama and Auburn University. She enjoyed brief careers as an airline flight attendant and an advertising agency media buyer before marrying and settling down to raise daughters Charlotte and Chrissie. She returned to her hometown of Troy to work as an interior designer in the family furniture business.
In 1992, Barnes founded Sister Schubert’s Homemade Rolls as a home-based business using her grandmother’s heirloom roll recipe. With the guidance of food broker George Barnes, she led the company through several years of explosive growth, opening a state-of-the-art bakery and expanding production to more than a million rolls a day. The couple married in 1995. They sold the stock of the company to Lancaster Colony Corporation in 2000 but continue to oversee operations of Sister Schubert’s Homemade Rolls.
In addition to her leadership role at Sister Schubert’s, Barnes serves as Culinary Ambassador for the State of Alabama and sits on the Board of Directors of the Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame. She was presented the Woman of Achievement Award at the 2005 Kappa Delta sorority convention. The author of Sister Schubert’s Secret Bread Recipes, published in 1996 by Oxmoor House, Barnes is currently working on two new cookbooks.
A strong supporter of education, Barnes serves Auburn University as a Visiting Executive in the Lowder School of Business, as a member of the Women’s Philanthropy Board and as a member of the Dean’s Board of the School of Human Sciences. She has participated in the Ben H. Williams Distinguished Speaker Series at Baylor University and sits on the Foundation Board at Troy University.
She also serves as president of the board of the Barnes Family Foundation, which she and husband George Barnes founded in 2001.
Today, Barnes resides in Andalusia, Ala., with husband George, 7th-grade-son, Evans, and newly adopted son Alex, who is six. Daughter Charlotte is pursuing a career in medical sales, and daughter Chrissie recently opened her own bakery business, Chrissie Schubert’s Homemade Treats, in Andalusia. Daughter Laura is pursuing a degree in psychology at Auburn University.
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