Rica V. Garcia is a Senior Associate in the San Francisco office of Baker Botts. She has experience advising and representing public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and federal Indian tribes on a wide range of environmental and land use matters.

Prior to joining Baker Botts, Rica served as an Environmental Justice Clinical Fellow at Stanford Law School's Environmental Law Clinic and as Deputy Attorney General in the Bureau of Environmental Justice in the California Attorney General's Office. She also represented both public and private interests in matters related to environmental, land use, and public agencies at a boutique and midsize law firm in California.

Rica graduated from UCLA School of Law with a focus on Public Interest Law and Policy and Critical Race Studies. As a law student, she worked as Chief Comments Editor for the UCLA Law Review. She also has a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs.