Cynthia Holmes, a graduate of Washington University Law School is engaged in the general practice of law in St. Louis having litigated matters in both state and federal courts. Cynthia has served as Board member of the St. Louis Bar Foundation, and on the Board of Governors of Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, chairing BAMSL’s Bench Bar Conference, Speaker’s Bureau and Trial Practice Institute, and has received its Award of Merit and Award of Achievement.
Cynthia has served as a condemnation commissioner by appointment of the St. Louis County Circuit Court, and has served on the Clayton Missouri Futures Committee. Past national Board service includes Americans United for Separation of Church and State, serving as Vice President, and Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, Washington, D.C. Cynthia has served as the elected Moderator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
She is a member and Past Chair of the cabinet of the Interfaith Partnership of St. Louis, and serves on the Steering Committee of the Missouri Jobs With Justice, Worker’s Rights Board and is a member of the Board of the Great Rivers Environmental Law Center.
Cynthia has been an instructor with St. Louis Community College, has testified on church state issues before Missouri Legislative committees and presented programs for the Jewish Community Relations Council, Anti-Defamation League, NCJW, Cooperating School Districts. She has appeared as a guest on KWMU radio and Fox 2,
television.