Attorney Cyrenthia Jordan serves interchangeably, where conducive, as outside general counsel, governance strategist, neutral investigator, mediator, executive thought partner, and estate planning resource — providing integrated, senior-level legal judgment. My legal practice experience is substantive across multiple forums, including appellate, district, bankruptcy, housing, conciliation, and juvenile courts. My practice background encompasses civil litigation and commercial transactions, motion practice and first-chair trial experience, transactional drafting, and administrative proceedings.  I have experience in estate planning and alternative dispute resolution as a Rule 114 Qualified Neutral. I’ve demonstrated experience as an independent contractor providing legal representation servicing Hennepin County.

Executive Compliance Leadership
Director on the executive team of a metropolitan planning organization serving 3M+ residents across 7 counties and 182 communities providing bus and rail transit services and infrastructure build, transit police, regional wastewater treatment, community park planning and housing grants. Supported a department of 30+ staff with a $5 million budget in a collective-bargaining environment. Led enterprise-wide Dividends Index survey for organizational assessment and strategic planning.

Director on administrator team as a compliance subject matter expert, principal neutral investigator, coordinator, and trainer for a decentralized public higher education system of 37 colleges and universities, serving a university with 6 academic colleges, residential housing, campus safety department, and collective bargaining groups engaging 18,000+ constituents in the matters of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, accessibility, sexual violence, and due-process.

Local-Government Authority and Administrative Law
Servant leader inside a regional governmental agency and state university institution as AA/EEO Officer; ADA Coordinator; Title VI, Title VII, Title IX Officer; and, DBE Liaison Officer providing daily application and executive advisory guidance of statutes, rules, and administrative standards. 

Owned policy development and quality review of investigations, ethics, fraud, small-business certification/contract awards, sub-recipient oversight, and paratransit appeals (quasi-adjudicative).

Advanced a small-business statutory revisions through approval in the Minnesota legislative process. 

Business/Commercial/Nonprofit Regulatory Knowledge
Transactional practice (corporate formation, asset purchases, licensing, non-competes, executive employment agreements) and DBE/small-business program administration demonstrating business and commercial regulatory fluency. 

Neutral/ADR Practice
Rule 114 Qualified Neutral — Civil roster, Civil Adjudicative/Evaluative category (includes Arbitration, Consensual Special Magistrate, Summary Jury Trial, Early Neutral Evaluation, Non-Binding Advisory Opinion, and Neutral Fact Finder).