Paula Boggs

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Paula Boggs
Alma mater Johns Hopkins University, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Known forlawyer, musician, public speaker, writer

Paula Boggs (born 1959) is an American attorney, musician, public speaker, and former military officer. [1] She is the leader of the Paula Boggs Band.

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Boggs is the founder of Boggs Media, LLC, a business that manages her music, speaking, and other creative business activities. [2] She is also a board member of numerous for-profit and non-profit organizations. She served as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of law and corporate affairs at Starbucks Corporation from 2002 to 2012. [3]

Early life

Boggs is the oldest of four, and was born to parents Janice Barber and Nathaniel Boggs Jr. in Washington, D.C. [4] She was raised Catholic. [5] In 1972 her parents divorced and her mother took the kids to Europe, where she accepted teaching and administrator positions in Germany and Italy with the Department of Defense Schools System. [4] Her father was awarded Howard University's first PhD in zoology in 1963. [6]

Career

Boggs served as vice president, legal, for products, operations and technology at Dell Computer Corporation, and as a partner at the law firm of Preston Gates & Ellis, LLP. She served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, and in various capacities as an attorney for the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense and the White House Office of Legal Counsel. She served as a regular officer in the United States Army, and earned Army Airborne wings and a Congressional appointment to the US Naval Academy, among America's first women to do so. [7] She served in the policy-making body of the American Bar Association's House of Delegates. [8] Boggs also served on the Iran-Contra task force during the Reagan administration. [9]

Memberships and affiliations

Boggs serves on the boards of Thinkific, [10] Banzai International, [11] and Newport Festivals Foundation. [12]

She is former board member of Avid, a leading provider of digital media technologies for media organizations and independent professionals, [13] Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, [14] a former governor of the American Bar Association, trustee emerita of The Johns Hopkins University, former board member and secretary of public radio station KEXP and former director of School of Rock LLC. She was named NASDAQ's top general counsel in 2009. [15] Boggs served as a member of the White House Council for Community Solutions from 2010 to 2012. She is also a former Chair of Legal Aid for Washington, and a former board member of the Seattle Art Museum. [16] She was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2013 as a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. [17] [18] She resigned from the President's Committee in August, 2017, co-signing a letter of resignation that said in reference to President Trump, "Ignoring your hateful rhetoric would have made us complicit in your words and actions." [19] She also served on the board of governors for the national American Red Cross., [20] and a former board member of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.

Music career

Paula Boggs has written and recorded four full-length albums fronting the Paula Boggs Band, recorded two EPs and owns over 30 U.S. copyrights. She is also a voting member and a Governor of The Recording Academy, Pacific Northwest Chapter Board [7] and member of the Americana Music Association. Paula Boggs Band is sponsored by Deering Banjos, Breedlove Guitars and Radial Engineering, Inc.

Television Appearances

In 2024, Paula Boggs appeared on PBS News Hour. The segment, titled "How A Seasoned White House Lawyer Is Forging a New Musical Path," explores her transition from a legal career to a musical path.

Writing career

Paula Boggs's essays have appeared in national publications such as HuffPost and National Law Journal.

Education

Boggs received a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, in international studies, where she was on a 4-year Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship and graduated first in her ROTC class. She then attended the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. [17] She also completed the U.S. Army Infantry Airborne School and earlier received a Congressional Appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy. [21]

Awards and recognition

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  1. ↑ "Boggs, Paula, 1959-". id.loc.gov. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Sterling Financial Corporation Appoints Paula E. Boggs and Maria M. Pope to Board of Directors" . Retrieved 20 Jan 2016.
  3. ↑ "Paula E. Boggs Executive Profile". Bloomberg News . Retrieved 20 Jan 2016.
  4. 1 2 "Paula Boggs: Former Starbucks Exec's Unpredictable Life Journey". 9 October 2013. Retrieved 12 Feb 2016.
  5. ↑ "Keith Jarrett and the Power of Identity". paulaboggsband.net. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  6. ↑ "Boggs Fellowship" . Retrieved 7 Mar 2016.
  7. 1 2 "Paula Boggs Biography" . Retrieved 20 Jan 2016.
  8. ↑ "ABA House OKs Lateral Lawyer Ethics Rule Change" . Retrieved 8 Mar 2016.
  9. ↑ "Starbucks to Stage: Seattle Musician Paula Boggs". 2 February 2015. Retrieved 20 Jan 2016.
  10. ↑ "Vancouver's former unicorn Thinkific shakes up board of directors". biv.com. 2024-09-16. Retrieved 2024-10-26.
  11. ↑ "Bonzai Board of Directors". ir.banzai.io. Retrieved 2024-10-26.
  12. ↑ "Newport Festival Foundation, Our Team". newportfestivals.org. Retrieved 2024-10-26.
  13. ↑ "Avid Appoints Paula Boggs to Its Board of Directors" . Retrieved 20 Jan 2016.
  14. ↑ "Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, the world's leading musical instrument manufacturer, marketer and distributor, today announced Paula Boggs has been appointed to the company's Board of Directors beginning 2021". Fender. December 15, 2020. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
  15. ↑ "Starbucks General Counsel and Secretary Announces Retirement" . Retrieved 6 Mar 2016.
  16. ↑ "Meet the Groundbreakers: Paula Boggs" . Retrieved 20 Jan 2016.
  17. 1 2 "President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts". whitehouse.gov . 5 December 2013. Retrieved 20 Jan 2016– via National Archives.
  18. ↑ "President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities: Paula Boggs" . Retrieved 20 Jan 2016.
  19. ↑ "Todo un comité de Trump renuncia por su "retórica de odio" tras disturbios en Charlottesville" . Retrieved 8 Aug 2017.
  20. ↑ "American Red Cross" . Retrieved 6 Mar 2016.
  21. ↑ "Member Spotlight: Paula Boggs" . Retrieved 20 Jan 2016.
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