LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.—Orange County officials were mourning on Feb. 14 the death of former Laguna Niguel Mayor Robert Ming in a plane crash in Kansas. Ming, a managing partner and founder of the Quadrant Law Group, crashed a single-engine plane he was piloting on Feb. 13 at Johnson County Executive Airport. The 51-year-old attorney was first elected to the Laguna Niguel City Council in 2006 and re-elected four years later. He served as mayor in 2009 and 2013. Laguna Niguel Mayor Elaine Gennawey said city officials were “simply heartbroken at Robert Ming’s passing.” She added that “words are inadequate to convey the depth of Robert’s character and the force for good that he was in the community.” Gennawey praised Ming as “a man of impeccable ethics whose actions were guided by faith and the belief that when we work together much good can be accomplished. He had vision and the …