Tracy Prior

Tracy currently serves as a Chief Deputy District Attorney for the County of San Diego, where she oversees multiple divisions including the Victim Services Division and the Family Protection Division which handles Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, Elder Abuse, Animal Cruelty and Internet Crimes cases and oversees multiple multi-disciplinary teams including the San Diego County Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team.

A project of the San Diego County District Attorney, Tracy developed and launched the opening of One Safe Place North, a Family Justice Center with currently 103 partner agencies, and is currently planning the launch of a second one-stop victim service center for victims and survivors of abuse and trauma.

Tracy has enjoyed a 28-year career as a public prosecutor trying over 75 cases to verdict, including murder, child sexual assault, rape, arson, stalking, and domestic violence cases. Tracy is an adjunct professor at Cal Western School of Law teaching Intimate Partner Violence and the Law, teaches and trains in various topics including teaching leadership courses for Attorney General Alliance-Africa, and recently taught technocrats in Zambia and Kenya. Tracy was instrumental in the development of San Diego County’s Strangulation Protocol which has increased awareness and response to non-lethal strangulation by intimate partners. In 2022, Tracy testified as a subject matter expert before the California Assembly Public Safety Committee regarding legislation that would help domestic violence victims receive forensic examinations, and was a contributor to a US Department of Justice thinktank regarding preventing gender-bias in gender-based violence. In 2018, Tracy testified before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee as an expert on Domestic Violence Best practices for the hearing involving reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Tracy serves on the Board of Directors for the Buddy Bowl, a non-profit that hosts flag-tournaments to raise money for wounded warriors and first responders, and the California District Attorney’s Association as well as the Associates Board of the National District Attorney’s Association and serves as the Women Prosecutors Section Secretary and Domestic Violence subcommittee chair. Tracy received the National District Attorney’s Association “Presidents Award” for her work in Child Abuse, a lifetime achievement award from the San Diego Domestic Violence Council and recently the San Diego County Bar Association’s Award for contributions by a Public Sector Attorney. Tracy has been married 28 years and her proudest accomplishments are her two teenage sons, ages 17 and 15.