OFFICE OF THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

Paula G. Lettice
Chief Financial Officer

Paula G. Lettice assumed the position of Chief Financial Officer on December 4, 2006. She has financial management and accounting responsibility for all of the AOC’s appropriations including the Capitol Building, Capitol Grounds, the Botanic Garden, the House and Senate Office Buildings, the building and grounds of the Library of Congress and Capitol Police, and the Capitol Power Plant.

Just prior to her current appointment, Ms. Lettice was the Executive Director of the Lanham, Maryland-based Entomological Society of America, the largest organization in the world serving the professional and scientific needs of entomologists.  With approximately 6,000 members, the Society publishes four highly rated professional journals and other publications, conducts an annual meeting at which 2,500 scientists present their research, and administers two professional certification programs. During her tenure, the Society made a dramatic financial turnaround (restoring its operating reserves), introduced many technological improvements such as electronic commerce, received a succession of clean audits, and instituted improved business processes and internal controls.

A career-long federal employee until 2001, Ms. Lettice held the position of Managing Director of Budget and Planning, U.S. Department of State from 1989 to 2001, where she had responsibility for the financial management of over 25 different appropriations and funds and served as the interface with State’s bureaus on all personnel, procurement, logistics, and facilities issues. She became a member of the Senior Executive Service in 1992. Her previous federal career was with the Department of Navy where she began as a Management Intern and rose through progressively more responsible positions with the Naval Air Systems Command and the Naval Supply Systems Command, having departed as the latter’s Director of Programming and Budget.  She received numerous awards throughout her federal career, including the Secretary of State’s Career Achievement Award and the Department of Navy’s Meritorious Civilian Service Award.

Ms. Lettice is very involved in professional organizations and in her local community. She currently serves as a Trustee at Trinity University (Washington, DC) and has been involved for many years in fund-raising for Good Shepherd Housing, a non-profit organization that works to prevent homelessness in the Route One area of Fairfax County.  Her past involvements have included board positions with the American New Women’s Club, Washington, DC, membership on her parish Finance Council, the presidency and other elected positions with Executive Women in Government, an officer with her local civic association, and a volunteer at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.

Ms. Lettice was an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Virginia. Her specialties are public administration and federal financial management.

She earned a B.A. in Political Science from Trinity College, Washington, DC, and a Masters of Public Administration from the George Washington University. She has two grown sons—Jeffrey, a graduate of Georgetown University, who resides in Boston with his wife and daughter, and Stephen, a graduate of the College of William and Mary, who resides in Durham with his wife.