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Tina C. Torres is following in the footsteps of her parents who instilled the importance of public service and giving back to the community.
“My father, a marine, educator and life long lawyer, Peter Torres Jr. was elected to served on the San Antonio City Council in 1967 as the voice of the people. My mother, Yolanda P. Torres, a dedicated parent of four, a devoted teacher and advocate of public education, became he first Hispanic woman to be elected to the Texas State Board of Education.”
As a young child, when people would ask what she wanted to be when she grew up, she’d say, "My Daddy’s Secretary," and her Daddy’s secretary she became after she aced a typing class with Mr. Zelinski in 7th Grade at Longfellow Junior High.
Tina makes concerted efforts to stay involved in a number of bar and civic activities.
- Healthy Families San Antonio (Board Member)
- Bexar County Dispute Resolution Center (Advisory Board Member )
- Consumer Credit Counseling Service of San Antonio (Board Member)
- League of Women Voters (Member)
- Greenspaces Alliance (Member)
- Hispanic Issues Section of the State Bar of Texas (Past Vice chair)
- Inman Christian Center ((Board Member)
- Mexican-American Bar Association of San Antonio (Past President)
- San Antonio Bar Association/San Antonio Bar Foundation (Member and Fellow)
Building on her passion for public service, Tina recently made the decision to run for Civil District Court Judge and is running for the 288th District Court bench in 2010.
Tina Torres was born and raised in San Antonio and attended schools in the San Antonio Independent School District until her family moved her Sophomore year and Tina began attending Churchill High School where she graduated in 1985.
After graduating from Churchill, Tina moved to Austin, attended the University of Texas at Austin, and received a Bachelor’s of Arts in English with a minor in psychology. She worked in Austin for a few years as a meeting planner with a trade association and then as a technical writer with the Texas General Land Office before coming back to San Antonio at the urging of her father, who said, "Well, if you’re working as hard as you’re working, you may as well work for me!" She attended St. Mary’s School of Law under the tenure of Dean Barbara Bader Aldave where she graduated with a Doctorate of Jurisprudence in 1996.
After working her entire time through law school, she joined the "family" practice as an associate in November 1996 and immediately got thrown into the world of consumer litigation and protecting individual’s rights against big business interests. During her tenure working with her Dad, Tina says she learned not only to protect individual’s interests, but she learned the importance of respecting your adversary, respecting the system, and respecting the law.
After her father’s passing in 2007, Tina and her brother, Paul A. Torres, also a St. Mary’s Law alum, became partners, and focus their practice on consumer litigation, including Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and debt collection practices issues, family law, and small business defense.