Beth Cisneros

Mary Elizabeth Cisneros is an attorney at Holland & Knight representing charitable organizations primarily in trust and estate matters.

 

Before returning to private practice, Ms. Cisneros served as the Deputy General Counsel at the Barack Obama Foundation and the American Red Cross.  For over twenty years she has advised board members and senior leaders in all areas of nonprofit operations and legal compliance, including labor and employment law, trusts and estates, fundraising, governance, and corporate transactions.  Ms. Cisneros has also represented nonprofits in connection with Congressional investigations and inquiries from federal and state agencies, as well as state attorneys general.  Prior to working as an in-house counsel, she was a labor and employment lawyer at Epstein Becker & Green in New York.

After graduating from Amherst College with a B.A. in American Studies, Ms. Cisneros received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.  She is a member of the Board of Trustees of Amherst College, a former board chair of Girls on the Run of Montgomery County, and a former board co-chair of the Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington D.C.

She and her husband Michael Rosenman live in Maryland and have three children.