Anabel Martinez (she/her/hers/ella) currently serves as Justice Deputy/LGBTQ+ Advisor for Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis. In this role, she leads cross-agency initiatives and develops policies to advance justice, equity, and public safety for communities across the First District. Her work spans issues of criminal justice reform, human trafficking, gender-based violence, LGBTQ+ equity, and immigrant rights, always centering the voices of people with lived experience and elevating community-driven solutions.

Previously, Anabel was Senior Policy Counsel with the Sunita Jain Anti-Trafficking Policy Initiative at Loyola Law School, where she advanced local, state, and national anti-trafficking strategies that promoted evidence-based public health and community-based alternatives to carceral systems. She also served as an attorney with the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic, representing low-income immigrant community members, and as a Victims’ Rights Staff Attorney with the Legal Advocacy Project for Survivors at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, providing holistic legal services to LGBTQI+ survivors of violence, trafficking, and other crimes.

Her legal career also includes representing parents in juvenile dependency proceedings as an attorney at Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, Inc. She is an active leader in the profession and currently serves as the Vice President of the Latina Lawyers Bar Association.

Anabel earned her Juris Doctor with a concentration in Public Interest Law from Loyola Law School and her undergraduate degree from Dickinson College.