Alberto Torrico

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Alberto Torrico (born March 18, 1969 in San Francisco, California) is the California State Assembly Majority Leader and has been a member of the California State Assembly since December 6, 2004, succeeding term-limited Assemblyman John Dutra.

He represents the 20th Assembly District which includes Fremont, Newark, Union City and Milpitas among other cities in the East Bay. A Democrat, Assemblyman Torrico serves in both the Hispanic Caucus as his father is from Bolivia and the Asian Pacific Island Caucus as his mother is Japanese. This makes him the first California state assemblyman to serve in two different ethnic caucuses. Alberto Torrico is currently sits on the Banking, Business, Social Security and Joint Audit Committees. He currently chairs the powerful Committee on Governmental Organization. In his first term, 17 of his bills were signed into law.

[edit] Pre-Assembly Career

Torrico served on the Newark City Council from 2001 until 2004. He was an attorney who received his undergraduate degree from Santa Clara University and his law degree from UC Hastings.

[edit] Personal

Torrico and his wife Raquel, live in Newark. The Torricos have a 6 year-old son Mateo, and 2 year-old daughter Amy-Elyzabeth.

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Current members of the California State Assembly

District 1: Berg (D) • District 2: LaMalfa (R) • District 3: Keene (R) • District 4: Gaines (R) • District 5: Niello (R) • District 6: Huffman (D) • District 7: Evans (D) • District 8: Wolk (R) • District 9: Jones (D) • District 10: Nakanishi (R) • District 11: DeSaulnier (D) • District 12: Ma (D) • District 13: Leno (D) • District 14: Hancock (D) • District 15: Houston (R) • District 16: Swanson (D) • District 17: Galgiani (D) • District 18: Hayashi (D) • District 19: Mullin (D) • District 20: Torrico (D) • District 21: Ruskin (D) • District 22: Lieber (D) • District 23: Coto (D) • District 24: Beall (D) • District 25: Berryhill (R) • District 26: Aghazarian (R) • District 27: Laird (D) • District 28: Caballero (D) • District 29: Villines (R) • District 30: Parra (D) • District 31: Arambula (D) • District 32: Fuller (R) • District 33: Blakeslee (R) • District 34: Maze (R) • District 35: Nava (D) • District 36: Runner (R) • District 37: Strickland (R) • District 38: Smyth (R) • District 39: Fuentes (D) • District 40: Levine (D) • District 41: Brownley (D) • District 42: Feuer (D) • District 43: Krekorian (D) • District 44: Portantino (D) • District 45: de León (D) • District 46: Núñez (D) • District 47: Bass (D) • District 48: Davis (D) • District 49: Eng (D) • District 50: De La Torre (D) • District 51: Price (D) • District 52: Dymally (D) • District 53: Lieu (D) • District 54: Karnette (D) • District 55: Furutani (D) • District 56: Mendoza (D) • District 57: Hernandez (D) • District 58: Calderon (D) • District 59: Adams (R) • District 60: Huff (R) • District 61: Soto (D) • District 62: Carter (D) • District 63: Emmerson (R) • District 64: Benoit (R) • District 65: Cook (R) • District 66: Jeffries (R) • District 67: Silva (R) • District 68: Tran (R) • District 69: Solorio (D) • District 70: DeVore (R) • District 71: Spitzer (R) • District 72: Duvall (R) • District 73: Walters (R) • District 74: Garrick (R) • District 75: Plescia (R) • District 76: Saldaña (D) • District 77: Anderson (R) • District 78: Horton (R) • District 79: Salas (D) • District 80: Garcia (R)

v • d • e Current Government of California Statewide Elected Officials and Legislative Leaders

Senior United States Senator Junior United States Senator	Dianne Feinstein Barbara Boxer

Governor of California Lieutenant Governor of California California Attorney General Secretary of State of California California State Controller California State Treasurer California Insurance Commissioner California Superintendent of Public Instruction	Arnold Schwarzenegger John Garamendi Jerry Brown Debra Bowen John Chiang Bill Lockyer Steve Poizner Jack O'Connell

Senate President pro tempore Senate Majority Leader Senate Minority Leader	Don Perata Gloria Romero Dave Cogdill

Assembly Speaker Assembly Majority Leader Assembly Minority Leader	Karen Bass Alberto Torrico Michael Villines