Paula C. Hollinger | |
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| Member of theMaryland Senate from the11th district | |
| In office January 14, 1987 – January 10, 2007 | |
| Succeeded by | Robert Zirkin |
| Member of theMaryland House of Delegates from the12th and11th district | |
| In office January 1979 – January 1987 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1940-12-30)December 30, 1940 (age 84) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Paul |
| Children | 3 |
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Paula C. Hollinger (born December 30, 1940, inWashington, D.C.) is aDemocratic Partypolitician fromMaryland in theUnited States.
She most recently served as the associate director for health workforce in the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, retiring in 2015. Until 2007, she served in theMaryland State Senate as a Senate Committee Chair, and was a candidate forMaryland's third congressional district in2006. The seat was being vacated byBen Cardin, who was seeking the Democratic nomination for theUnited States Senate seat being vacated by SenatorPaul Sarbanes. She came in third place in a field of eight other Democrats, garnering 21.3% of the vote.
Hollinger was in the General Assembly for 28 years. She was elected as a delegate in 1979, and became a state senator in 1986.
Hollinger chaired the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee in theMaryland General Assembly, serving as the only woman to chair one of the four standing senate committees.
Hollinger is a formernurse,teacher andlecturer. She was a delegate for thenGeorgiaGovernorJimmy Carter at the1976 Democratic Convention, she also attended the2000 Democratic Convention as a delegate for formerVice PresidentAl Gore.
Hollinger married her husband, Paul, in 1962. The couple has three children and seven grandchildren.
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