Vanessa Holton is a managing attorney at the California Department of Industrial Relations, where she has practiced for 25 years in the areas of public employment, public works/prevailing wages, workers' compensation, Cal-Warn, apprenticeship, privacy and ethics laws. For 15 years she was a subject matter consultant to the State Bar of California's examinations unit in the Rules of Professional Conduct, the State Bar Act and the ABA model rules. Holton earned her bachelor's degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and a law degree at the University of California Hastings College of the Law.