Eileen Padberg
Eileen Padberg has managed public affairs and political campaigns for over 35 years from her Orange County office. She also provides strategic planning and corporate communications for some of the nation's top corporations and organizations, including several of Orange County's most prestigious businesses and industries. Most recently she spent 22 months in Iraq, developing and implementing a groundbreaking women's development program that provided more than 64,000 career development training hours to more than 1,900 Iraqi women in government and created a small business development program that resulted in Iraqi WOB's winning over 500 substantial reconstruction related contracts.
On behalf of the distilled spirits industry, Padberg implemented a national grassroots effort to bring third party credibility to the industry's effort to stop drunk driving and illegal underage alcohol use. Padberg led a national field team, whose responsibilities included developing and implementing active community coalitions responsible for implementing local anti-drunk driving programs in 28 cities across the U.S. She also was the lead consultant on a 3-year multi-state communications outreach effort for the Missouri River Recovery Program for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Clients have included a 6,000-member employee association, three law enforcement associations, a large school district that included nine high schools, a leading transportation authority, three law firms, several non-profit organizations and several local developers.
On a local level, Padberg has managed over 100 local political campaigns including those of Congress, Sheriff, District Attorney, Board of Supervisors, judicial, city council and numerous local referendums and initiatives.
Padberg is a former officer of both the American and International Associations of Political Consultants. She has served as a political consultant and strategist to elected officials at all levels of government, including managing the 1986 campaign of Clint Eastwood for Mayor of Carmel and serving as regional political director of the 1988 George Bush for President campaign for California, Hawaii and Nevada, as well as two statewide ballot campaigns.
Active in several groups and political institutions, Padberg traveled worldwide with an organization out of Washington, DC to provide political training for emerging democracies such as the former Soviet Union, Guatemala, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Republican Majority for Choice and is the former Chair of the California Commission on the Status of Women,Women in Leadership, (an Orange County organization that promotes and supports women candidates) and is an active member of International Women's Forum. Padberg also served as an appointee of Governor Schwarzenegger to the State Bar Board of Governors Examining Committee. She recently completed UC Berkeley's Corporate Directors Enterprise 2009 Program in Board of Directors Leadership.
Padberg has been honored by numerous organizations including, WISEPlace for Empowering Women, the South Orange County YWCA as Woman of the Year, Women Sage, NAWBO's Remarkable Women 2010, The Links and the Frances Hesselbein Excellence in Leadership award. She is a noted speaker and author of various articles on life in Iraq, public policy and politics.
WJF 2-25-17
Eileen Padberg has managed public affairs and political campaigns for over 35 years from her Orange County office. She also provides strategic planning and corporate communications for some of the nation's top corporations and organizations, including several of Orange County's most prestigious businesses and industries. Most recently she spent 22 months in Iraq, developing and implementing a groundbreaking women's development program that provided more than 64,000 career development training hours to more than 1,900 Iraqi women in government and created a small business development program that resulted in Iraqi WOB's winning over 500 substantial reconstruction related contracts.
On behalf of the distilled spirits industry, Padberg implemented a national grassroots effort to bring third party credibility to the industry's effort to stop drunk driving and illegal underage alcohol use. Padberg led a national field team, whose responsibilities included developing and implementing active community coalitions responsible for implementing local anti-drunk driving programs in 28 cities across the U.S. She also was the lead consultant on a 3-year multi-state communications outreach effort for the Missouri River Recovery Program for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Clients have included a 6,000-member employee association, three law enforcement associations, a large school district that included nine high schools, a leading transportation authority, three law firms, several non-profit organizations and several local developers.
On a local level, Padberg has managed over 100 local political campaigns including those of Congress, Sheriff, District Attorney, Board of Supervisors, judicial, city council and numerous local referendums and initiatives.
Padberg is a former officer of both the American and International Associations of Political Consultants. She has served as a political consultant and strategist to elected officials at all levels of government, including managing the 1986 campaign of Clint Eastwood for Mayor of Carmel and serving as regional political director of the 1988 George Bush for President campaign for California, Hawaii and Nevada, as well as two statewide ballot campaigns.
Active in several groups and political institutions, Padberg traveled worldwide with an organization out of Washington, DC to provide political training for emerging democracies such as the former Soviet Union, Guatemala, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Republican Majority for Choice and is the former Chair of the California Commission on the Status of Women,Women in Leadership, (an Orange County organization that promotes and supports women candidates) and is an active member of International Women's Forum. Padberg also served as an appointee of Governor Schwarzenegger to the State Bar Board of Governors Examining Committee. She recently completed UC Berkeley's Corporate Directors Enterprise 2009 Program in Board of Directors Leadership.
Padberg has been honored by numerous organizations including, WISEPlace for Empowering Women, the South Orange County YWCA as Woman of the Year, Women Sage, NAWBO's Remarkable Women 2010, The Links and the Frances Hesselbein Excellence in Leadership award. She is a noted speaker and author of various articles on life in Iraq, public policy and politics.
WJF 2-25-17
Women in Politics
The U.S. has one of the lowest representations of women in developed countries - 19%.
We are #97 on the list of 187 countries with parliaments or legislatures
We are just above Kyrgyzstan at 98%.
Rwanda 39%; So. Africa 36%; Cuba 36%; and even Afghanistan at 27%
We have a lot of work to do here.
Women must have a seat at the table. Their expertise with negotiations, collaboration and cooperation is not generally seen as a "I won, or I...
A Civilain in Iraq During the War Helping Iraqi Women
A few -- and only a few -- of those Pentagon RECONSTRUCTION contracts required a plan to include the Iraqi women in the reconstruction process.
Building support for the invasion, President Bush promised Iraqi women that he would restore their rights, repair their country, and get rid of Saddam.
I believed from the beginning that unless Iraqi women had a stake in the economy, democracy didn't have a chance! I based my plan on that...
