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Paula Boggs is the founder of Boggs Media, LLC, a business that manages her music, speaking, and other creative business activities. She is a philanthropist, fundraiser, public speaker, and musician. She is also a Board Member of numerous for-profit and non-profit organizations. She served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Law and Corporate Affairs at Starbucks Corporation from 2002 to 2012.
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Early life
Boggs is the oldest of four, and was born to parents Janice Barber and Nathaniel Boggs Jr. in Washington, DC. In 1972 her parents divorced and her mother took the kids to Europe where she accepted a teaching position in Germany and Italy. Her father was awarded Howard University's first PhD in Zoology in 1963.
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. She served in the policy making body of the American Bar Association's House of Delegates. Boggs also served on the Iran-Contra task force during the Reagan administration.
Memberships and affiliations
She is a member of The Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees, Peabody Institute’s National Advisory Board, a former Director of School of Rock LLC, and is Secretary of the Board of KEXP Radio, an affiliate of National Public Radio and the University of Washington. 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 was also a former Chair of Legal Aid for Washington, and a 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. In 2015 she was appointed to the board of Avid, a leading provider of digital media technologies for media organizations and independent professionals. She also served on the Board of Governors for the national American Red Cross.
Music career
Paula Boggs has written and recorded two albums fronting the Paula Boggs Band, and owns the U.S. copyrights. She is also a Voting Member, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Pacific Northwest Chapter.
Education
Boggs received a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, where she was on a Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship. She then attended the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. She also completed the U.S. Army Infantry Airborne School.