She was among the first class of women admitted to Georgetown University School of Law, where she met her husband, the late Judge Richard Harlan Frank, Second District Court of Appeals, (Florida). Judge Frank and Pat Collier met while in law school in a contracts class, where they later decided, "to make one of their own", (as Pat Frank phrased it).[citation needed] They were married 93 days after meeting in that Contracts class, on December 22, 1951, at the Washington National Cathedral, in Washington, D.C.