Paula Trainor

Paula Trainor is the best friend of Amy Barksdale in Brother Grimace's A Path Of Roses And Thorns. She is the Associate Dean of Military Sciences at Tennyson University, and a full Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. Paula is an Black woman, very attractive and slightly vain about her appearance, and not at all reluctant to speak her mind. Paula is also a lesbian, but does not let her sexuality act as the primary focus of her life (she saves that position for hr quest to get Amy married). She is a native Rhode Islander and presumably wealthy (according to the car she owns - a custom-made BMW roadster), and she has a dislike of Southerners (Or perhaps just of Daniel St. John).

Paula was to be Amy's Maid of Honor at her wedding to Reese Wyatt, but was called away to the White House on important business and returned for the reception. (Not wanting to take away from Amy's special day, Paula didn't tell her that she had been promoted to Brigadier General and selected to become the Director of DELPHI.