Cynthia L. Clack, JD
A Call for Justice for the Victims of Sex Trafficking and Those Left Vulnerable by the System
For over four decades, Cynthia L. Clack, a Texas Board Certified Family Law specialist, has been uncovering a disturbing pattern. She’s consistently observed how court outcomes failed to reflect the existing evidence in cases involving child sexual abuse, trafficking, and coercion. Again and again, investigations stalled, decisions were reversed, and critical voices were ignored. The result is a system where the most vulnerable are too often left unprotected.
In her book, Discovering the Club, Clack draws on decades of documented case files, court transcripts, depositions, and law enforcement records to examine how systemic failures can intersect with influence, silence, and institutional breakdown. Set in one of the wealthiest regions in Texas, the picture that this evidence presents challenges assumptions about where exploitation occurs and who is protected, highlighting patterns of abuse which demand closer scrutiny.
More than an exposé, Discovering the Club challenges readers to confront difficult realities and consider what meaningful accountability requires. For those willing, acknowledging the uncomfortable truths revealed in these pages will be the first step in vindicating the voiceless, and uplifting the unprotected.
With a Texas Supreme Court justice, a state district judge, and three more attorneys in the family, Cynthia L. Clack has an inside track in Texas courtrooms and a passion for impossible cases.
Ms. Clack was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1978, becoming only the third woman to practice law in the West Texas city of Odessa. To get her solo practice off the ground, Ms. Clack served as a part-time municipal judge and a city attorney and taught business law at the local community college.
She now serves clients throughout Texas, the United States, and internationally in divorce, child custody, child abuse, and other family law matters, as well as catastrophic personal injury lawsuits.
Her advocacy for underdog clients has resulted in victories in high-dollar child custody trials, an acquittal of a man who confessed to a horrific murder that he did not commit, and an international kidnapping case that made Ms. Clack and her client, Emily Wu, celebrities in China. Ms. Clack is certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in family law and in mediation, but it is her extrajudicial work that connects her with people from all walks of life.
Cynthia wrote the libretto and song lyrics for the 2005 rock opera Eye of the Tiger, performed at Odessa’s Globe of the Great Southwest Theater. She wrote and published Doodles the American Poodle, a series of books for children of US servicemen and women, as well as a memoir, The Other Side of Life—An Angel’s Story. She teaches an office-management seminar for attorneys and their staff and is a sought-after public speaker.
She has served as a member of multiple boards and community service organizations, including the Goodwill-West Texas board of directors, the board of directors of the Midland/Odessa Symphony and Chorale, the Baylor Law Alumni Executive Committee, and the Advisory Council for Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
Cynthia graduated from Baylor University School of Law in Waco, Texas, in 1978. Her late father, James H. Clack, served as a Texas district judge. Her late mother, Knoxine Campbell Clack, taught school in Texas Independent School Districts for over thirty years. Cynthia’s late stepmother, Barbara Culver Clack, was the second woman appointed to the Texas Supreme Court. Her brother Steve is a Texas-based attorney, as was her late brother Gene. Cynthia Clack lives and works in Odessa, Texas.
