IGS National Advisory Council

DAVID CARRILLO

David A. Carrillo is a Deputy Attorney General with the California Department of Justice, where as a member of the Employment, Regulation, and Administration Section (ERA) he represents state agencies in civil litigation, writs of mandate and administrative proceedings on issues of statewide importance in state and federal court.

Before joining the Attorney General's Office, Mr. Carrillo served as a Deputy City Attorney in San Francisco and as a Deputy District Attorney in Contra Costa County, and worked as an associate in private practice. A member of the California bar since 1995, Mr. Carrillo is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Northern, Southern, Central and Eastern District Courts of California.

In addition to earning B.A., J.D., and LL.M. degrees from UC Berkeley, currently Mr. Carrillo is preparing a dissertation on California constitutional law in the J.S.D. program at Boalt Hall School of Law. Since 2007, Mr. Carrillo has served on the State Bar of California Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation, and is a member of the Hispanic National Bar Association, La Raza Lawyers Association, Alameda County Bar Association, Bar Association of San Francisco, and NITA Advocates Society. Mr. Carrillo is the founder and Chief Financial Officer of the California Tau Foundation, and has served as Vice-President of the Tau of Pi Lambda Phi Alumni Association since 1999.

As part of a lifelong commitment to education, Mr. Carrillo is an active supporter of the Constitutional Rights Foundation mock trial program, and has taught courses at Boalt Hall School of Law.