Molinari served as president of a local Parent Teacher Association, and was elected to the York Catholic District School Board in 1988.
[2] Molinari's bid for election was almost derailed early in the campaign when one of her pollsters asked constituents how they felt about being represented by a candidate who was the son of a Holocaust survivor (Ronen's father had survived internment at Auschwitz, and Thornhill has a large Orthodox Jewish population).
[3] There were some who believed that Molinari would be re-elected in the provincial election of 2003, because of her party's support for a tax credit to parents who send their children to private or denominational schools.
While she polled better than most other Tories in the Greater Toronto Area, Molinari was not able to overcome a provincial shift to the Liberals and lost to local councillor Mario Racco by 796 votes.
[7] On May 18, 2007, Ontario's Attorney General Michael Bryant announced Molinari's appointment as a justice of the peace.