Mary L. Padula is a former politician who represented the Second Worcester and Middlesex District in the Massachusetts Senate from 1983 to 1991 and served as Massachusetts' Secretary of Housing & Community Development from 1991 until the post was eliminated in 1996. Prior to serving the Senate, Padula was the executive secretary for the town of Lunenburg, Massachusetts from 1953 to 1983. See also List of former districts of the Massachusetts Senate References Living people Republican Party Massachusetts state senators People from Lunenburg, Massachusetts State cabinet secretaries of Massachusetts Women state legislators in Massachusetts Year of birth missing (living people)