Maurine C. Padden

Maurine Padden is CBA's chief operating officer. After serving as CBA’s lead lobbyist in the most active state legislature in the country, she became CBA's chief administrative office in 2008. Maurine continues to manage CBA’s legislative advocacy efforts. Immediately prior to joining CBA in 1989, Maurine was counsel for the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS), and also served as trial counsel for the Department of Industrial Relations. Maurine received her law degree from University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law and holds her bachelor’s degree in Government and Economics from California State University, Sacramento.