Vickie Turner is a partner at one of California’s largest female-owned firms — Wilson, Turner Kosmo —and handles complex product liability matters for sizable manufacturers, distributors and retailers. They include such firms as Ford, General Motors, Honda and Cummins Inc. For more than 30 years, Turner has represented a wide varietyof companies through mediations, arbitrations and warranty disputes as well as lengthy and often emotional class-action and product liability lawsuits. For 16 years, Turner was an advisory board member and served as president and vice president of the Lawyers Club of San Diego, an organization dedicated to advancing the status of women in law and society. She also is a former president of the Earl B. Gilliam Bar Association. She has served as secretary for the California Minority Council, was a judge pro tem in small claims court and was appointed to the Southern District Judicial Appointment Advisory Committee by Sen. Barbara Boxer. Turner also is an educator. She was an adjunct professor for the University of San Diego School of Law in 2013 and has been an adjunct professor with California Western School of Law since 2011. She has many honors, including being named “Woman of the Year” for the 79 Assembly District in 2015 for her service to San Diego’s youth.