Mary L. Padula is a former politician who represented the Second Worcester and Middlesex District in the Massachusetts Senate from 1983 to 1991[1] and served as Massachusetts' Secretary of Housing & Community Development from 1991 until the post was eliminated in 1996.

[2] Prior to serving the Senate, Padula was the executive secretary for the town of Lunenburg, Massachusetts from 1953 to 1983.

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