Paula Boggs Band blends jazz and Americana, releasing a steady stream of music since 2010. Six years ago they released their 3rd album Elixir, The Soulgrass Sessions, produced by Grammy©️ winning Trina Shoemaker, and after Elixir, multi-instrumentalists Paul Moore and Darren Loucas, bassist Alex Dyring and drummer Jacob Evans joined original members Boggs, on vocals, guitar and ukulele, percussionist Tor Dietrichson and banjo player Mark Chinen. Paula Boggs is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law and earned a bachelor’s degree in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University. She was also an adjunct professor at the University of Washington School of Law. Paula Boggs served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at Starbucks Corporation, Vice President Legal at Dell Computer Corporation, and had a 14-year career in public service, including as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, and in various capacities as an attorney for the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense and the White House Office of Legal Counsel. She served eight years as a Regular Officer in the United States Army, earned Army Airborne wings and a Congressional appointment to the US Naval Academy – among America’s first women to do so.  

In 2013, President Obama appointed her to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities