Teresa Trucchi

Teresa Trucchi was admitted to the State Bar of California on September 22, 1988, and holds an active license under bar number 135543 ^[1]. She is a partner at Suppa, Trucchi & Henein, LLP in San Diego, where her practice includes personal injury, family law, and general civil litigation ^[2]. She joined the firm in 1994 and became a partner in 2000; before that she was an associate at Bauer and Schultz, APC in Bonita from 1988 to 1994. Trucchi is a Certified Family Law Specialist, a designation she earned in 2012 through the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization ^[2]. She has served as lead counsel in numerous jury trials, practicing primarily in San Diego County with additional litigation in Los Angeles, Orange, Imperial, San Bernardino, Shasta, and Riverside counties, and she has handled contested evidentiary hearings in the family courts. She is admitted before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Central Districts of California, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the California and United States Supreme Courts. Trucchi earned her Juris Doctor from California Western School of Law in 1988, attending on a Presidential Scholarship, and received a Bachelor of Science with distinction in secondary education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1984. Since 2007 she has taught as an adjunct professor in the San Diego Community College legal assistant program ^[3].