Paula Farrell

Paula F. Farrell currently serves as Director of the Office of Policy and Legislative Review at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. This office is composed of four financial economists and is responsible for performing policy analysis and developing policy recommendations for senior Treasury officials on legislative and other proposals involving the Government borrowing, lending, and investing. She joined the Treasury in 1975 as a mathematician in the Office of the Government Actuary. She later moved to Treasury's Legislative Review Unit and became its manager in 1982. In 2002, she became Director of the Office of Policy and Legislative Review. Prior to joining the Treasury, Paula taught Algebra I for several years. Paula holds a B.A. in Mathematics (received cum laude) from Trinity College (D.C.) and a M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Maryland. She also did graduate work in Mathematics at the University of Delaware. Paula is married and has two children, a daughter, 20, who is a junior at the University of Maryland, and a son, 25, who graduated from the University of Delaware and is studying to be an actor. Paula has been a member of Executive Women in Government (EWG) since Marylouise Uhlig encouraged her to join when they met at a training course at the Federal Executive Institute in March 2003. She has greatly enjoyed it and is very grateful to Marylouise for encouraging her to join the EWG. During the past year, she has served as the EWG Secretary, a member of the Status of Women Committee, and most recently, the chair of that committee's newly formed Mentoring Subcommittee. Her subcommittee is working on having workshops that would be helpful to GS-15 members who want to move into the Senior Executive Service.