Blanca Estela Rubio (born September 15, 1969) is an American politician serving in the California State Assembly since 2016.

She is a Democrat representing the 48th Assembly District, encompassing parts of the eastern San Gabriel Valley, including Baldwin Park, Covina, and Glendora.

Prior to being elected to the assembly, she was a board trustee for the Baldwin Park Unified School District, and a schoolteacher for 16 years.

[1] Blanca Rubio was born in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and first came to the United States with family to Winnie, Texas, where she lived as an illegal immigrant.

She was deported back to Juárez, returned to Los Angeles illegally in 1977 with her family, and eventually became a citizen in 1994.