Felix de la Torre '99 Appointed General Counsel for California Public Employment Relations Board

Felix de la Torre '99 has been appointed general counsel at the California Public Employment Relations Board, California Governor Jerry Brown has announced. De la Torre has been chief counsel at the Service Employees International Union, Local 1000 since 2012, where he was an attorney from 2008 to 2012. He was a shareholder and partner at Weinberg, Roger and Rosenfeld from 2000 to 2008, director of the pesticide and worker safety program at the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation from 1999 to 2000, state policy analyst for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund from 1994 to 1996 and a field representative for California State Assemblymember Rusty Areias from 1992 to 1994.