Regia Maldonado was a female human and reporter for the Federation News Service.

In 2379 Maldonado attended a press conference where Kant Jorel, the Federation Council's liason to the press announced the candidates for the special election for the President of the United Federation of Planets. Maldonado asked why if former president Min Zife had been considering resignation for months, hadn't the press heard anything about it. Kant claimed that the administration was good at keeping secrets despite what the press thought. (TNG novel: A Time for War, A Time for Peace)

A few months later in January, 2380, Maldonado attended another Council press briefing in which she told Kant that she had a source who said that a ship full of Reman refugees was headed for Outpost 22 along the Romulan Neutral Zone. Kant refused to comment, but Maldonado attempted to push him further about what he meant. (ST novel: Articles of the Federation)