Pam Giarrizzo
Pam Giarrizzo has been an attorney with the Secretary of State’s office since 1993. She currently serves as the agency’s chief counsel. Previously, she served as general counsel to the business programs division, and as senior staff counsel in the elections division. Before joining the Secretary of State’s office, Ms. Giarrizzo held several top-level staff positions during her thirteen-year career in the state Assembly, including chief consultant to the Assembly Committee on Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments, chief of staff to a member of the Assembly, and legislative director in the Speaker’s office of member services. Ms. Giarrizzo is a graduate of San Francisco State University and McGeorge School of Law. She lives in Sacramento with her husband, Phil, and their son, Zack.
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