About Paloma

Paloma first ran for public office in 2006, for the United States House of Representatives in the 25th District. Her platform issues included ending the war in Iraq, national security and foreign policy, and fiscal responsibility. Paloma campaigned for nearly a year, yielding to avoid a primary with fellow Democrat Dan Maffei, who went on to win 49% of the vote in 2006 and who is running again in 2008. She ran against incumbent Jim Walsh, who has since announced his retirement.

Paloma is a family law attorney, representing clients in cases involving custody, child support, distribution of assets, and spousal support. She represents clients at the trial and appellate levels. For more than fifteen years, Paloma has worked to find solutions for the increasing financial pressures on working men and women to meet routine household bills, like mortgages, and provide essentials for their families, like health insurance and quality medical care. Paloma started her own law office after receiving her law license in 1992.

Charitable work is also important to Paloma. Paloma has spent considerable hours for more than fifteen years performing pro bono (free) legal work through the Volunteer Legal Services Project of Monroe County. Paloma has also served on the Board to Crisis Nursery of Greater Rochester and Hope Hall School. She is committed to children in poverty and at risk of domestic violence.

Paloma graduated with a Juris Doctor graduate degree from SUNY Buffalo (NY). She received her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Wheaton College (MA) in Political Science and Economic Theory. Her Senior Honors Thesis was on end-stage of life medical decision-making. She was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, an award conferred on less than 1% of college graduates nationwide. Paloma spent one semester of college attending Harvard University (MA) to study macroeconomic policy and holistic medicine. Among her college activities, Paloma worked at the Health Policy Institute (Boston) and interned in hospital administration at Children’s Hospital (Boston).

Paloma lives in Webster with her husband, Peter, and her stepson, Sam. Peter is self-employed as an Engineer in the food and beverage industry.