Paula Hollinger

Paula C. Hollinger
Member of the Maryland Senate from the 11th district
In office January 14, 1987 – January 10, 2007
Succeeded by	Robert Zirkin
Member of the Maryland House of Delegates from the 12th and 11th district
In office January 1979 – January 1987
Personal details
Born	(1940-12-30) December 30, 1940 Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Paul
Children	3
Occupation	politician nurse educator

Paula C. Hollinger (born December 30, 1940, in Washington, D.C.) is a Democratic Party politician from Maryland in the United 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 the Maryland State Senate as a Senate Committee Chair, and was a candidate for Maryland's third congressional district in 2006. The seat was being vacated by Ben Cardin, who was seeking the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Senator Paul 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 the Maryland General Assembly, serving as the only woman to chair one of the four standing senate committees.

Hollinger is a former nurse, teacher and lecturer. She was a delegate for then Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter at the 1976 Democratic Convention, she also attended the 2000 Democratic Convention as a delegate for former Vice President Al Gore.

Hollinger married her husband, Paul, in 1962. The couple has three children and seven grandchildren.

See also

• Maryland Congressional election, 2006

External links

• Hollinger's Maryland General Assembly Website
• Appearances on C-SPAN