About April Connors
A lifelong Tri-Citian, real estate broker, mother of four, and two-term state representative working to keep the 8th District a place where families can put down roots — and stay.
From the Benton-Franklin Fair to Olympia.
April has been a Tri-Citian her whole life. At nine she showed her first steer at the Benton-Franklin County Fair through 4-H, and was one of the first girls to play on her local Little League team. By high school she held local, state, and national leadership posts in Future Farmers of America — including a trip to the FFA State President’s Conference in Washington, D.C., where she watched President Reagan speak in the Rose Garden.
Home in Kennewick.
April and her husband Mike Connors live in Kennewick. Mike serves on the Kennewick School Board. Together they have four children — two of whom they adopted, one from Haiti and one from Guatemala.
Communications, law, and more than 20 years in real estate.
April earned her B.A. in Communications from Washington State University in 1990. Her professional path began in municipal law as a legal assistant, where she helped write city codes and assisted on real-estate and housing cases — including one that went before the U.S. Supreme Court. She later joined Voit Development Company before returning to the Tri-Cities in 1999.
She has spent more than two decades at Windermere Group One/Tri-Cities as a Managing Broker, where she leads The Connors Group. Continuing credentials include completing the Urban Land Institute’s Commercial Real Estate Development School.
Showing up.
April serves on the boards of Visit Tri‑Cities and Tri‑County Habitat for Humanity, has volunteered with the Academy of Children’s Theatre, served as a PTO officer in Kennewick-area schools, and in 2010 helped co-lead a Haiti earthquake relief mission. She has also been a long‑time advocate for the Columbia Valley Center for Recovery — the inpatient behavioral‑health and addiction‑treatment facility the Tri-Cities has needed for years, now gearing up to open. The Connors family is also associated with the Skone and Connors family farm.
From first-time candidate to House Republican Floor Leader.
April had not held elected office before her 2022 campaign. She won the open-seat 8th District race with 55.89% of the vote, then returned to Olympia in 2024 with 70.44%. In November 2024 her caucus peers elected her House Republican Floor Leader — the No. 3 leadership post, earned in only her second term.
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