Connor has worked hard building the Clinton Area community.

• He served on the board of the Friends of the Clinton Library from 2003 – 2006, serving as President 2005-2006.
• He is a member of the Kiwanis Club of Clinton and is a Member of Kiwanis International.
• He serves on the Clinton Great Places Steering Committee and was part of the team that crafted Clinton’s successful bid to be an inaugural Iowa Great Place in 2005.
• He was named the Volunteer of the Year by the Clinton Area Chamber of Commerce in 2006.
• He also serves on the Gateway Area Cultural Alliance and the Clinton Area Chamber of Commerce, Government Affairs Committee.

Connor Anderson was born in Washington D.C. but has been an Iowa native since the age of six. He graduated Rockwell-Swaledale high school and attended the University of Iowa from 1983 to 1987 majoring in Communications and Political Science.

An internship in the Iowa House with State Representative Betty-Jean Clark (R-Rockwell) in 1983 began a life of political activism that took him to the presidential campaigns of Sens. Joe Biden and Paul Simon, a number of congressional and state races and finally to Czechoslovakia (as it was then known). In 1990 Connor was one of a select number of American political consultants invited to work with the pro-democracy movement there to help candidates prepare to stand in the first post-Communist elections.

After returning to the United States in 1991 Connor made his hobby of working with computers into a new career in information technology. Connor worked for a prominent Chicago management consulting company, Kuczmarksi and Associates, before starting his own I.T. consultancy, Digital Mechanics, in 1997. Connor has worked on projects for a number of high profile companies and government agencies including: Compaq Computer Corporation (now Hewlett Packard), The U.S. Postal Service, The Chicago Board of Trade, The University of Chicago and the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps.

Connor and his wife, Laura moved to Clinton in 2003 where Connor worked as the Eastern Iowa Technology Professional for Clifton Gunderson Technology Solutions until late 2006. He is currently Sr. Director of I.T. Services at Effective Networking in Clinton. Laura Anderson has a home-based business producing hand-made clothing and other crafts. Connor and Laura have three children.

Connor is a Microsoft Certified Network Engineer and a United States Soccer Coaches Association “E” Licensed coach. He coaches soccer and conducts soccer coaching clinics for the Clinton YMCA soccer program.