Paula Boggs

She is former board member of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, 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. 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. She was appointed by President Barack Obama in 2013 as a member of the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. 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." She also served on the board of governors for the national American Red Cross.

Boggs is the oldest of four, and was born to parents Janice Barber and Nathaniel Boggs Jr. in Washington, D.C. She was raised Catholic. 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. Her father was awarded Howard University's first PhD in zoology in 1963.

Paula Boggs (born 1959) is the founder of Boggs Media, LLC, a business that manages her music, speaking, and other creative business activities. She is a musician, public speaker, writer and lawyer. 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.