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).