Career
She was the minority leader in the California State Assembly. Prior to serving in the Assembly, Conway served as a Tulare County Supervisor from 2000 until 2008. Conway serves on the State Board of Directors for California Women Lead, a women"s nonprofit, nonpartisan organization.
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 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 Grand Old Party assembly leader since 1981.
Prior to serving in the Assembly, Assemblywoman Conway served on the Tulare County Board of Supervisors for 8 years.
She chaired the Board in both 2005 and 2008. In 2006, Assemblywoman Conway served as president of the California State Association of Counties, which represents California"s 58 counties at the state and federal levels. She later became a director of the National Association of Counties, chaired its membership committee, and worked on its economic development committee.
Assemblywoman Conway attended, but did not graduate from, Fresno State University.
Her father, John Conway also served on the Tulare County Board of Supervisors from 1981 until his death in 1991. In 2014 she produced the song "How You Lie,Lie,Lie" featured in the movie Unfriended.