Teresa A. McQueen
Corporate Counsel
Teresa McQueen is Corporate Counsel for Western Growers. In that capacity, she provides advice and counsel to the organization on employment law matters and commercial trade practices. Ms. McQueen also provides legal guidance to Western Growers members on employment law, human resources, and commercial agreements, as well as providing law-related educational opportunities and overseeing annual updates to the “Western Growers Personnel Procedures Manual.” Prior to joining Western Growers, Ms. McQueen founded and was principal attorney at SAFFIRE LEGAL PC, an employment and risk management law firm. Before that, she was a named associate at the employment litigation firm of Pedersen ▪ McQueen. While at SAFFIRE LEGAL, Ms. McQueen applied the skills and strategies learned over 10 plus years as an employment law litigator and general counsel attorney to providing employers and employees with legal advice, education, and training on developing and maintaining successful employee/employer relationships. Ms. McQueen is a recipient of the Orange County Bar Association’s Harmon G. Scoville Award for exemplifying the highest standards of the legal profession and championing our constitutional system of justice. She has presented for CEB and authored several CEB publications on discovery. Ms. McQueen is also the Executive Producer/Host of the podcast “Workplace Perspective Raising The Bar At Workplaces Everywhere!™”
