Jody Allen

Jody Allen
Born	Jo Lynn Allen
Residence	Mercer Island, Washington
Other names	Jody Patton, Jo Lynn Patton, Jo Allen, Jody Allen Patton, Jo Allen Patton
Alma mater	Whitman College (class of 1980)
Occupation	Vice-Chair of First & Goal Inc. President of Vulcan Productions
Spouse(s)	Brian Patton (m. 1988–2009)
Children	3

Jo Lynn "Jody" Allen (formerly Jody Patton) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is Microsoft co-founder billionaire Paul Allen's sister and served as the chief executive officer of his investment and project management company, Vulcan Inc., based in Seattle, Washington until October 2015. She is also the co-founder and president of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.

Allen is the younger sister of Paul G. Allen, co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation. She grew up in Wedgwood, a middle-class neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Her mother, Edna Faye Allen, was a Seattle school teacher and her father, Kenneth Sam Allen, was an associate director of the University of Washington Libraries. Allen graduated from Lakeside School in 1975 and was a member of the class of 1980 at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, where she studied drama.

In 1986, she co-founded Vulcan Inc. with her brother to manage their family's business and charitable endeavors. Vulcan's former Chief Financial Officer described her as being "responsible for having the trains run on time" and said Allen had "a particular passion for real estate development, building things in general."

She is the Vice-Chair of First & Goal Inc., which oversees operations of the Seattle Seahawks. She was involved in negotiating the public-private partnership that led to the construction of CenturyLink Field in Seattle, and was an adviser to her brother when he first considered buying the Seattle Seahawks. In 1997, a Seattle reporter wrote: "Jody Patton thought buying the Seahawks was a great idea; thus was born Allen's efforts to acquire the team and build a new football stadium."

Allen also supervised building the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon, renovating the Seattle Cinerama, and bringing the EMP Museum to Seattle.

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