Marilynn Mika Spencer

Marilynn Mika Spencer is the founding and managing attorney of Spencer Johnson McCammon LLP. The firm practices
exclusively in the fields of labor law, employment law, employee benefits, and personal injury. Ms. Spencer
represents clients in the public and private sectors in most areas of labor and employment law including wage
and hour claims, union law, disability discrimination and reasonable accommodation, other discrimination,
administrative compliance, contract and intellectual property matters, employee benefits, and selected class
actions. She regularly appears in federal and state courts and in administrative agencies including the
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), the Department of
Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) including
Federal Sector Hearings, the California Labor Commissioner, the Department of Labor (DOL), the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Cal-OSHA, the Unemployment Insurance Appeals
Board (UIAB), the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), and the State Personnel Board (SPB). Ms. Spencer
earned her law degree at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law. She earned a
Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics, cum laude, from UCLA. Ms. Spencer was on the Executive Board of the
California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA) for 12 years, ending in December 2014. She was the first chair of CELA’s Education Committee and was a member of that committee for over a
decade. She was a Member of and then Advisor to the State Bar of California Executive Committee, Labor and Employment
Section. Ms. Spencer is a Past Chair of the Personnel Appeals Board of the City of
La Mesa. She is a published author in several legal journals and periodicals, is a 2007 San Diego SuperLawyer
(Employment & Labor; Employment Benefits/ERISA).

• Labor Union
• Disability Rights
• Federal Employees
• Employment Discrimination

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California

Since 1990

9th Circuit

Since 1990

D.C. Circuit

Since 1992

Founding Partner; Managing Partner

Spencer Johnson McCammon LLP

Current

Previously: The Spencer Law Firm; Spencer Law Office

University of California - Los Angeles

B.S. | Linguistics

Honors: cum laude

UCLA School of Law

J.D. (1990) | Labor and Employment

1987 - 1990

Employment; Employee Benefits

Super Lawyers

2007

San Diego County Bar Association

Member

Current

California Employment Lawyers Association

Member; former Member, Board of Directors; former Chair, Education Committee

1996 - Current

Activities: Former Member, Board of Directors; former Chair, Education Committee; former Co-Chair, Public Sector Committee; Member, Wage and Hour Committee; Lobby Day

National Employment Lawyers Association

Member

1994 - Current

California State Bar  # 149941

Member

1990 - Current

State Bar of California

Member

1990 - Current

Activities: Former Member, Executive Committee, Labor and Employment Section

Sheppard v. North Orange County Regional Occupational Program, 191 Cal. App. 4th 289 (Cal. App. 4th Dist. 2010)