{{Short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Paula Boland | image = | image_size = 180px | state_assembly = California | district = 38th | term = December 3, 1990 - November 30, 1996 | preceded = Marion W. La Follette | succeeded = Tom McClintock | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|1|17}} | birth_place = Oyster Bay, New York | death_date = | death_place = | party = Republican | occupation = Realtor, City council woman. | spouse = Lloyd E. Boland Jr. | children = 2 | relations = | alma_mater = }} '''Paula L. Boland''' (born January 17, 1940) is an American politician from California and a member of the Republican party.<ref>{{cite web|title=Join California - Paula L. Boland|url=http://www.joincalifornia.com/candidate/4460|website=joincalifornia.com}}</ref>
==State Assembly==
A realtor, Boland won election to the Granada Hills-based 38th district in the California State Assembly in 1990, succeeding Republican Marion W. La Follette. She easily won reelection in 1992 and 1994.<ref name="joincalifornia">{{cite web | last = Vassar | first = Alex |author2=Shane Meyers | title = Paula L. Boland, Republican | work = JoinCalifornia.com | year = 2007 | url = http://www.joincalifornia.com/candidate/4460 | accessdate = 2007-01-25}}</ref>
==San Fernando Valley secession movement==
Boland became associated with an effort by the San Fernando Valley to secede from the rest of city of Los Angeles in 1995. Although she successfully authored the bill to put the referendum on the ballot, it was eventually defeated in a citywide vote.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/29/us/los-angeles-long-fragmented-faces-threat-of-secession-by-the-sanfernando-valley.html |title=Los Angeles, Long Fragmented, Faces Threat of Secession by the San Fernando Valley |newspaper=The New York Times |first=B. Drummond |last=Ayres Jr. |date=May 29, 1996 |access-date=1 October 2016}}</ref>
==State Senate race==
In 1996 Boland moved into the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena-based 21st district in an attempt to succeed veteran Republican Newton Russell in the California State Senate. Russell was barred by state term limits from seeking reelection. Boland was hampered by her relocation into the area and a philosophy that seemed a bit too conservative for the district. She lost to Democrat Adam Schiff, a former Federal prosecutor, by 8 percentage points.<ref name="california journal december 1996">California Journal Vol. XXIII, No.7 (December 1996) "Election 1996". StateNet Publications, December 1996.</ref>
==Post Assembly==
After leaving the legislature, Boland served as an elected member of the Los Angeles Charter Commission, representing her Granada Hills base.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.joincalifornia.com/candidate/4160 JoinCalifornia]
{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | title=California State Assembly, 38th District | before=Marion W. La Follette | after=Tom McClintock | years=December 3, 1990 - November 30, 1996 }} {{s-end}}
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