Cynthia S. Conners

Cynthia S. Conners is an associate attorney with Marshack Hays LLP. Ms. Conners has been an attorney for twenty-seven years and has achieved an outstanding trial record.

She was born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated cum laude from UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, completed course work for her Masters Degree in Public Administration at the University of San Francisco, and received her Juris Doctor from the University Of California Los Angeles School Of Law in 1983, graduating in the top one percent of her class. She was a member of the UCLA Law Review in 1981-1982, and a Comment Editor in 1982-1983, Order of the Coif, and received the American Jurisprudence award for Evidence. She served as extern law clerk to the Honorable Richard Hill, Central District of California, in 1982.

Ms. Conners was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1983, to the Nevada Bar in 1999, and to the New Jersey State Bar in 2004.

She served in the United States Army from 1975 to 1985, and served as a Judge Advocate General’s Corps prosecutor for the Second Infantry Division in Korea and as a defense counsel at the Presidio of San Francisco. After serving in the Army she practiced as a litigation associate and partner at several prestigious law firms handling many complex trials.

In December of 2011,  Mr. Conners was inaugurated as Mayor of the City of Laguna Woods, CA. She also serves on the Orange County Waste Management Commission, the Coastal Greenbelt Authority, and the El Toro Water District Advisory Council.