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Top Women Lawyers

May 10, 2012

Sylvia Torres-Guillen

California Agricultural Labor Relations Board Sacramento Practice type: Litigation


Torres-Guillen was working as a deputy federal public defender, as she had for the past 18 years, when she received a call from Sacramento.


"It was out of the blue," she said.


Gov. Jerry Brown asked her to be general counsel of the California Agriculture Labor Relations Board, and he said he needed her to start right away. Less than a month later, Torres-Guillen had uprooted her family from her native Los Angeles and was out in the fields tryi...

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