David A. Carrillo

David Carrillo is founding executive director of the California Constitution Center and a lecturer in residence at University of California, Berkeley School of Law. The center is devoted to developing scholarship about the California constitution and the California Supreme Court. He coauthored a casebook on California constitutional law, teaches courses on the California constitution and the California Supreme Court, publishes articles on those subjects, and is editor-in-chief of a blog about the state high court. Before his academic career, he was a deputy attorney general with the California Department of Justice, a deputy city attorney in San Francisco, a deputy district attorney in Contra Costa County, and an associate in private practice. A member of the California bar since 1995, he is admitted to practice before the US Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Northern, Southern, Central, and Eastern District Courts of California. Governor Gavin Newsom appointed him to two terms on the California Law Revision Commission, where he was the 2022–23 chair and the 2021–22 vice- chair. He currently serves on the board of the Northern District of California Historical Society and PPIC’s Statewide Leadership Council. He is a life member of the La Raza Lawyers Association and the Hispanic National Bar Association. His bachelor’s, JD, LLM, and JSD degrees are from the University of California, Berkeley.