The Secretary of State of California is a state government official.
 Some other positions such as legislative assistants, paralegals, judicial law clerks, clerks of the court, medical assistants, and medical scribes that require bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degrees to practice, have taken up duties identical to that of specialized secretaries and vice versa where specialized secretaries have taken up some of the research and recordkeeping tasks of persons they assist such as working on deliverables or conduct similar professional duties
  == Duties and functions ==A secretary, also known as a personal assistant (PA) or administrative assistant, can have many administrative duties

