Board of Directors
Cynthia Coffman
is a member of the State Center’s Board of Directors. Cynthia was Chief Deputy Attorney General and Attorney General for the State of Colorado.
Trish Conners
is a member of the State Center’s Board of Directors. Trish spent 36 years in the Florida Attorney General’s Office in various positions, including 25 years as Division Director for the Antitrust Division, Chief Deputy and other senior executive positions in which she had oversight of all enforcement units, including the Antitrust, Consumer Protection, Civil Rights, and Lemon Law Arbitration Divisions. Between 2001 and 2005, she chaired the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) Multistate Antitrust Task Force. Trish has also served in leadership positions within the ABA Antitrust Law Section, currently serving on the Executive Council of the ABA’s Government and Public Sector Lawyers’ Division and is a member of the Advisory Board for the American Antitrust Institute. Trish holds an undergraduate degree in Telecommunications and a law degree from the University of Florida.
Thomas Greene
is a member of the State Center’s Board of Directors. Tom is currently a trial attorney with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He previously served as special trial counsel for the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition. For the prior 25 years, Tom served in the California Attorney General’s Office, including as Chief Assistant Attorney General of the Public Rights Division. In that capacity, Tom supervised the office’s 300-attorney affirmative litigation arm responsible for numerous substantive areas including both consumer protection and antitrust. Tom also chaired the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) Multistate Antitrust Task Force. Tom holds undergraduate and law degrees from the University of California, at Berkeley and Davis respectively.
Mihir Kshirsagar
is a member of the State Center’s Board of Directors. Mihir is Clinic Lead at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, a first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary technology policy clinic that gives students and scholars an opportunity to engage directly in the policy process. Previously, he served in the New York Attorney General’s Bureau of Internet & Technology as the lead trial counsel in cutting edge matters concerning consumer protection law and technology and obtained one of the largest consumer payouts in the State’s history. He has also worked at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and Cahill Gordon Reindel LLP in New York City on a variety of antitrust, securities and commercial disputes involving emerging and traditional industries. Before law school he was a policy analyst at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C., educating policy makers about the civil liberties implications of new surveillance technologies. Mihir attended Deep Springs College and received an A.B. from Harvard College in 2000 and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006.
Kevin J. O’Connor
is Chairman of the State Center’s Board of Directors. Kevin is a shareholder in the Wisconsin-based law firm of Lafollette Godfrey and Kahn, where he chairs its Antitrust and Trade Regulation Practice Group. Kevin served in the Wisconsin Department of Justice for many years, where he was Assistant Attorney General in charge of antitrust enforcement and head of the Office of Consumer Protection. While at the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Kevin chaired the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) Multistate Antitrust Task Force and led numerous multistate working groups litigating a broad range of antitrust cases. Kevin holds an undergraduate degree and a Ph. D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.
Tam Ormiston
is a member of the State Center’s Board of Directors. Tam was a member of the Iowa Attorney General’s Office from 1998 to 2017, where he served as Chief Policy Deputy Attorney General. In that capacity, he concentrated largely on national multi-state consumer and antitrust cases and served as the Acting Iowa Consumer Advocate. From 2007 to 2010, he was also Deputy Director of Columbia Law School’s National State Attorneys Program and an adjunct lecturer at the law school. Prior to his most recent service in the Iowa Attorney General’s Office, Ormiston practiced securities law, was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in Asia, and was a member of the Iowa Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division. He later served as the Director of the nation’s first Farm Division. In addition, Ormiston served as legal consultant and Representative for the Korea office of The Asia Foundation (TAF), helping to found and promote critical legal institutions (such as the Korean Constitutional Court) and establishing TAF offices and legal programs in Russia and Central Asia. Ormiston earned a J.D. and a Masters degree in American Studies at the University of Iowa.
John Pitts
is a member of the State Center’s Board of Directors. John is the Global Head of Policy for Plaid, a financial services technology company. Plaid helps consumers connect their financial services accounts to popular apps like Venmo, Betterment, and Acorns. In his role as Global Head of Policy, John advocates for consumers’ right to access, share, and control their financial data. He also advocates for financial data practices based on consumer-first principles of transparency, permission, and privacy. He has consulted on financial data and consumer protection laws and regulations in the United States, Canada, the UK, the European Union, and Australia. Before joining Plaid, John served as the Deputy Assistant Director for Intergovernmental Affairs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. At the Bureau, John worked with the state Attorneys General to promote cooperation and coordination between the states in enforcing the Dodd-Frank Consumer Financial Protection Act. He was a regular speaker on NAAG, CWAG, and State Center panels on topics including student lending, payday lending, and emerging financial technologies like cryptocurrencies. John started his career as an attorney with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.
Greg Zoeller
is a member of the State Center’s Board of Directors. Greg currently serves as the Chairman of the World Trade Center Indianapolis and maintains a private practice focusing on governmental litigation often serving as settlement counsel. He was elected Indiana Attorney General (2009-20017) during the terms of Governors Mitch Daniels and Mike Pence. Prior to his election Greg also served as the chief deputy attorney general. Throughout his fifteen years in the office Greg developed systems for alternative dispute resolution and served on numerous multistate cases focusing on settlement opportunities throughout litigation. During his years in office Greg served as adjunct faculty at the Indiana University School of Law in Indianapolis having received both his undergraduate B.A. and his J.D. from IU in Bloomington.
Executive Director
Anne E. Schneider
is the State Center’s Executive Director. Anne served in the Consumer Protection Division of the Missouri Attorney General’s Office for nearly 29 years; from 2002 to 2016, she also served as Antitrust Counsel. She handled civil and criminal prosecutions in state and federal courts and oversaw numerous local and multistate investigations, frequently serving on executive committees in multistate matters. Anne participated on the NAAG Antitrust Task Force and served as Chairperson of the Joint Enforcement Committee and on the Federal State Cooperation Committee. She participated on the Advisory Board for the State Center. Anne handled a variety of other matters, including securities fraud prosecution, professional licensing cases, and various educational initiatives. Anne graduated from Westminster College in Fulton, MO and the University of Missouri School of Law.