Leadership
Minority Leader
Committees
Appropriations and Budget
Children, Youth and Family Services
Conference Committee on Children, Youth and Family Services
Conference Committee on General Government
Conference Committee on Rural Development
GCCA
General Government
Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget
Joint Committee on Pandemic Relief Funding
Joint Committee on Pandemic Relief Funding - Health and Human Services Working Group
Joint Committee on Pandemic Relief Funding - Transportation, Infrastructure and Rural Development Working Group
Rural Development
Special Conference Committee on HB 2775 and HB 1935
Special Conference Committee on SB 1835
District Information
District 85
County(s) Represented in District
Oklahoma
Municipality(s) Represented in District
Nichols Hills, Oklahoma City, The Village
Zipcode(s) Represented in District
73112, 73114, 73116, 73118, 73120, 73132, 73162
Year Elected
Year: 2015
Term Limited
Year: 2028
PERSONAL:
Originally from Lawton, Cyndi Munson developed her passion for public service at an early age. Her father’s military service taught her the importance of giving back to the community around her.
A first generation college student, Cyndi graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and was awarded the Presidential Gold Medal for Leadership and Public Service. She used a semester of her undergraduate career to study non-profit and voluntary services at Georgetown University and then attended the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, where she earned a Master of Science in Leadership Education.
Cyndi has spent over a decade working in the non-profit community. Passionate about education and criminal justice reform, she most recently served OK Messages Project, a non-profit working to improve children’s lives through shared reading with their incarcerated parent, as the Development and Community Engagement Coordinator. Prior to joining OK Messages Project, she served in a variety of professional roles in her five years with Girl Scouts of Western Oklahoma. Her insight helped to provide leadership programs for thousands of girls in low-income schools, juvenile detention centers, and public housing.
She was appointed by Speaker Charles McCall to serve on the Oversight Committee for the Legislative Office for Fiscal Transparency (LOFT), Oklahoma’s first state evaluation office created by Senate Bill 1 in 2019. She also serves on the Occupational Licensing Advisory Commission, State Capitol Repair Expenditure Oversight Committee, Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women, Alzheimer’s State Planning Committee, Children and Families Council Foster Care Task Force, State Advisory Group on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and is Co-Chair of the Waiting List Caucus and the Early Childhood Education Caucus. Cyndi is a graduate of Youth Leadership Oklahoma Class III, Leadership Oklahoma City’s LOYAL Class VIII, and Leadership Oklahoma Class 31. In 2019, she was selected to participate in the Council of State Governments Henry Toll Fellowship Program, one of the nation’s premiere leadership development programs for state government officials.
Elected in September of 2015, Cyndi became the first Asian-American woman elected to the Oklahoma Legislature. In December of 2018, she was elected by her Democratic colleagues as the House Democratic Caucus Chair for the 57th Legislature. She primarily focuses on issues pertaining to children, women, working families, public education, criminal and juvenile justice reform, election and voter reform, and Alzheimer’s.
In her free time, she enjoys running, reading, practicing yoga, hiking, painting, puzzles, and mentoring young women across the state.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE:
House of Representatives, 56th Legislature to present