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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Julie Padilla |
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Land Mark, California , United States |
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| Contributor | SC-Conservative |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | Julie Padilla was born and raised in Sacramento. The daughter of long-time community activists Leonardo Padilla and RosAngélica Moreno, Julie is a first generation Mexican American whose first language was Spanish. Julie attended Natomas grade school then St. Francis High School where she was valedictorian of her graduating class. Having been accepted to Harvard, Yale and Princeton, Julie chose to stay close to her family and to Sacramento and matriculated at Stanford University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies and a Master of Arts in Latin American Literature. Julie went on for further study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she received a Master of Fine Arts in Acting while teaching theatre to undergraduate theatre majors.
Julie has put her performing arts background to public use. Right out of college she directed an at-risk youth theatre group for high school students, and she taught Mexican dance to children at the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco. Here in Sacramento Julie has put on benefit performances for the Sacramento AIDS Foundation; she performed the one-woman musical "Magdalena" to benefit her high school scholarship fund; and Julie is perhaps best known in Sacramento for having written, produced and performed her one-person show "You Don't Look Mexican" which in 1998 toured the western United States. (This show was also staged as a benefit for Cuban relief efforts.)
An outsider to mainstream politics in Sacramento, Julie worked as an intern in Congressman Matsui's Washington D.C. office. It was here that Julie learned not only the value of good government, but the importance of strong, effective leadership as well. Julie has worked with the Women's Civic Improvement Club (WCIC), with the Southside Park and East Sacramento neighborhood associations in their efforts to achieve more equitable distribution of social services, and with the Instituto Mazatlan de Bellas Artes, a fine arts organization that provides cultural arts programs for children. Julie is also currently on the board of directors for the Environmental Council of Sacramento (ECOS).
Julie ran for Mayor in 2000 and received over 10,000 votes; she proved that Sacramento would vote for a Democrat who championed the homeless, the poor, and the politically disenfranchised. "We need to build on our recent local successes such as defeating the publicly financed arena plan, the battle for a living wage and electing a progressive Democrat to the Assembly. Let's work together to remake the Democratic Party into the party that will retake the presidency, the Senate and the House of Representatives."
Since 2000 Julie has been the Executive Dean of the University of Northern California, Lorenzo Patiño School of Law, the most affordable law school in the country. Julie and her husband, Paul Smith, are extremely proud to be the parents of three boys, Río, Kai and Narrah. The family, which includes a 10-pound poodle and two cats, currently resides in Land Park.
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