Brooke Torton is the managing director of the Legal Resource Center for Public Health Policy and a senior staff attorney for the Network for Public Health Law at Maryland Carey Law. In these positions, she develops toolkits and policy papers on specific issues, drafts model legislation, conducts in-person and virtual training sessions for public health professionals, and generally supports the development of public health law. She also supervises students enrolled in the Clinical Law Program working on public health law projects, students working as externs for the Legal Resource Center for Public Health Policy or the Network for Public Health Law, and research assistants for the two centers.

She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a BA in Psychology in 2009. In 2012, she graduated from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where she served as co-president of the Maryland Public Interest Law Project (MPILP) and executive symposium editor for the Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class. Subsequent to graduation and prior to her employment with the network, she worked as a judicial law clerk followed by three years of litigation in criminal and domestic law.