Mario Camara serves as the tenth President of the California Bar Foundation, after completing four years as an active member of its Board of Directors. Camara previously served as chair of the Fund Development Committee, playing an instrumental leadership role in launching the Foundation's outreach to the state's leading law firms and increasing the Foundation's proactive fundraising returns by 900% over the past four years.

Camara is a partner at Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP in Los Angeles and is the Senior Member of the Firm's Executive Committee, where he practices real estate transactional law and represents developers, builders, investors, lenders and others involved in a wide range of commercial, industrial, residential, hotel and resort projects. In 1987, he became the first Hispanic managing partner of a Top 50 Los Angeles County law firm.

Camara's involvement in community activities is long and deep. He has served on the boards of directors of a wide range of legal services and other nonprofit organizations, including the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, where he served as President in 1995, Public Counsel, Santa Monica College Foundation, Dale Ride Internship for Achievement of Minority Scholars at Santa Monica College, UCLA Law School Dean's Advocates, UCLA Law Founders, and UCLA Foundation Board of Councillors. He is past President of the Century City Chamber of Commerce. He was the youngest President of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges at age 32 and was legal Co-chair of Rebuild LA after the Los Angeles riots in 1992.

A member of the State Bar of California since 1973, Camara received both his B.A., cum laude, and J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.