31 Facts About Paula Broadwell

Paula Dean Broadwell is an American writer, academic and former military officer.

Paula Broadwell is the co-founder and co-director of the Think Broader Foundation, a media consulting firm that focuses on addressing gender bias in the media and society.

Paula Broadwell is most notable for her involvement in the Petraeus scandal.

Paula Broadwell was born in Bismarck, North Dakota on 9 November 1972.

Paula Broadwell attended Century High School, where she was homecoming queen, valedictorian of the class of 1991, and an all-state basketball player.

In 2006 Paula Broadwell was inducted into the Century High School Hall of Fame.

Paula Broadwell graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering and political geography.

Paula Broadwell was a research associate in the Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership Fellows, a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Distinguished Young Leader in the French-America Foundation and American Council on Germany, and a national finalist in the White House Fellows program.

Paula Broadwell was elected as the Harvard student representative to the Academy of Achievement in 2006.

In 2008, Paula Broadwell entered the PhD program at the Department of War Studies at King's College London.

Paula Broadwell served in the United States Army and the United States Army Reserve as a military intelligence officer on four continents, serving in the disciplines of electronic warfare, document exploitation, counterterrorism analysis and operations, and human intelligence work.

On 14 November 2012, Paula Broadwell was stripped of her clearances to access classified information; her promotion to lieutenant colonel was revoked and she was demoted back to major.

Paula Broadwell was then classified by the Army as being ineligible for further promotion due to her being under investigation by the Army for the Petraeus affair scandal.

Paula Broadwell applied for a position with the FBI in 2001, passing the polygraph, academic, and life-experience requirements.

Paula Broadwell met Petraeus in 2006 while he was a speaker at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Paula Broadwell was a graduate student at the University of Denver at that time.

Paula Broadwell handed her his card and offered his help.

Paula Broadwell began a doctoral dissertation that included a case study of his leadership, with Petraeus fully cooperating.

Paula Broadwell then co-authored a biography of Petraeus, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus which was published in January 2012.

Paula Broadwell was deputy director of the Jebsen Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Paula Broadwell worked with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Paula Broadwell has written for The New York Times, CNN Security Blog, and The Boston Globe, as well as publishing book chapters in edited volumes.

In June 2009 and June 2011 Paula Broadwell attended meetings on Afghanistan-Pakistan policy in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is part of the White House complex.

Paula Broadwell was married to Dr Scott Paula Broadwell, an interventional radiologist who graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine in 1996.

Scott Paula Broadwell at the time was a physician and commander of the Mannheim military clinic in Germany and Paula Broadwell was completing a military intelligence deployment.

Paula Broadwell became notable after her extramarital affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus was exposed.

In mid-2012, Paula Broadwell sent a series of emails to General Mattis, General John Allen, and Admiral Harward, cautioning them about Jill Kelley.

Paula Broadwell sent harassing emails to Kelley, apparently warning her to stay away from Petraeus.

The emails were prompted after Paula Broadwell alleged that Kelley intimately fondled Petraeus under a table at a restaurant at the Georgetown Four Seasons.

Kelley denies the claim that she fondled Petraeus and alleges that Petraeus made those statements to the FBI to spare Paula Broadwell from serving time in prison.

The Department of Justice investigated Paula Broadwell for possessing classified information by illegally accessing the CIA director's emails to learn the confidential schedules of the generals she was emailing.