Connie Conway is an American politician who served as a member of the California State Assembly from 2008 to 2014. Prior to serving in the Assembly, Conway served as a member of the Tulare County Board of Supervisors from 2000 until 2008. Conway is a member of the Republican Party. She is a candidate in the 2022 special election in California's 22nd congressional district to replace Devin" https://ballotpedia.org/Connie_Conway. Conway entered the race to succeed termed out Bill Maze. In the primary, she faced two candidates, Rebecca Maze (wife of the incumbent) and Bob Smith, a retired sheriff's deputy. Following her successful re-election to the state assembly on November 2, 2010, Conway was elected by her Republican colleagues as the Assembly Republican Leader after a closed-door meeting of Assembly Republicans on November 4, 2010. Conway stated that outgoing Minority Leader Martin Garrick had voluntarily stepped down and she had been elected unanimously. Conway is the first woman to serve as GOP assembly leader since 1981.
