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Cynthia McClain-Hill, Esq.
Managing partner of Strategic Counsel PLC, Cynthia McClain-Hill leads the firm's regulatory, land use and environmental law practices. She is sought out by public and private sector clients for her expert handling of public-private partnership issues and effectiveness before governmental agencies. Throughout her career, Ms. McClain-Hill has served on a variety of significant public sector boards and regulatory commissions, including the California Coastal Commission, the California Fair Political Practices Commission and the CalEPA Environmental Justice Advisory Working Group. In Southern California, she served on the City of Los Angeles' Community Redevelopment Agency Board, the Small and Local Business Advisory Commission and the Los Angeles Mayor's Economic Advisory Council. She is consistently named one of Southern California's "Super Lawyers" in an annual survey of more than 65,000 of her peers, a distinction reserved for the top five percent of California's practicing attorneys.
A respected authority, Ms. McClain-Hill is frequently featured in a wide range of publications and is interviewed regularly by leading television and radio shows. She is 2008 - 2009 president of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and is past president of the Los Angeles chapter (NAWBO-LA). During the past several years she has been honored repeatedly for her leadership with business and civic organizations. She received the U.S. Small Business Administration's "Women in Business Advocate Award," the 2005 Chapter Public Policy Advocate of the Year Award" from NAWBO, the first annual "Ruth Standish Baldwin Award" from the Greater Sacramento Urban League, and the "Thurgood Marshall Award" from Minorities in Business Magazine. In September 2007, she was featured in ESSENCE Magazine.
Ms. McClain-Hill earned her bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1978, and her juris doctorate from UCLA's School of Law three years later. She was admitted to practice law in the State of California in 1981. |
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