Ginger Therese Ortiz

Ginger Ortiz has been a practicing criminal defense attorney in San Luis Obispo County for more than two decades.
Trained as a trial lawyer and having worked as a public defender, Ms. Ortiz leverages her trial advocacy skills on a wide range of cases including:

• DUI
• drug cases
• theft allegations
• crimes of violence
• sex offenses
• juvenile matters
• all other crimes charged in San Luis Obispo County

In addition to private cases, Ginger works as a Conflict Public Defender, choosing to continue to represent those in San Luis Obispo County who cannot afford fair representation reinforcing her record of fighting for each and every client.

As a criminal defense attorney, Ginger Ortiz has worked toward successful resolutions in hundreds of criminal cases.
After graduating from McGeorge Law School, Ms. Ortiz worked for the Santa Clara Public Defenders Office prior to moving to the San Luis Obispo Public Defenders Office. Ms. Ortiz joined the private practice Hurst & Ortiz in 2007 with attorney David Hurst before moving on to open a solo criminal defense practice in 2010 where she has since resolved hundreds of criminal cases, including a police brutality case she and a legal team fought in federal court.

Ms. Ortiz attended the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College (TLC) in 2011, an intensive three-week program run by nationally renowned attorney Gerry Spence that focuses on effective trial advocacy skills for defense attorneys. Since 2014 Ms. Ortiz has remained involved working as a faculty member and is the regional representative on the Alumni Board. Since then Ms. Ortiz has also founded her own TLC working groups in San Luis Obispo and attended seminars throughout California and across the country.

From cases ranging from minor-in-possession (MIPs), petty theft, and DUIs to domestic violence, sex offenses, "three-strikes" life cases and all serious felonies, Ms. Ortiz offers a free consultation to new clients free of obligation.