Hector De La Torre is a veteran public servant with significant government and nonprofit experience. He is currently a member of the board and former two-term chair at LA Care (the largest public nonprofit health plan in the United States), a trustee and co-chair of the Obama Scholars Advisory Council at his alma mater Occidental College in Los Angeles, and an Assembly appointee member of the California Air Resources Board. De La Torre served in the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2010, representing the largely Latino 50th District in southeast LA County. He chaired the Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, the Rules Committee, and helped create and chair the Accountability and Administrative Review Committee during his tenure. De La Torre was recently the Executive Director of the nonprofit Gasol Foundation, which focuses on children and wellness, and the national non-profit Transamerica Center for Health Studies. Prior to his service in the Assembly, he served as Mayor and as a member of the South Gate City Council, as Judicial Administrator in the LA Superior Court, as chief of staff to the Deputy Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration, and as a teacher at Edison Junior High in south LA. De La Torre received his bachelor’s degree in Diplomacy and World Affairs from Occidental College and attended the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He lives in South Gate.