Paula Brooks is a Franklin County Commissioner and ninth-generation Ohioan and attorney. She also currently leads a national task force on International Economic Development for the National Association of Counties and is its Chair of the Energy/Renewables Subcommittee.

Her former positions include: Special Assistant to the Ohio Attorney General, an antitrust and charitable fraud investigator, Director of the Ohio Attorney General's Women's Law Project, Chief Counsel for the Ohio Department of Liquor Control, Assistant Director of the Department of Administrative Services, and partner in a private law practice. Prior to her election in 2004 to the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, she was Vice Mayor and Council Member in Upper Arlington.

She received her law degree from Capital Law School.