ARB Board Member Biographies
Hector De La Torre
This page last reviewed December 12, 2011
Appointed October 2011 by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.
Hector De La Torre served in the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2010,
representing the largely Latino 50th District in Southeast Los Angeles County.
He chaired the Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, the Rules Committee
and helped create and chaired the Accountability and Administrative Review
Committee during his tenure. De La Torre is currently the Vice President
of communications and public affairs for FreeConferenceCall.com. Prior to
his service in the Assembly, he served as Mayor and as a member of the South
Gate City Council, Judicial Administrator in the Los Angeles Superior Court,
chief of staff to the Deputy Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration,
and a teacher at Edison Junior High in South Los Angeles. De La Torre
graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Diplomacy and World Affairs from
Occidental College and attended the Elliot School of International Affairs at
The George Washington University. He lives in South Gate with his wife and three children.
