Membership & Staff


  • Bob Cleavall, Chair
  • Martin Suazo, Vice Chair
  • Cindy Aragon, appointed by the State Bar
  • Bennett Baur, Chief Public Defender
  • Jason Bowie, Secretary of the Department of Public Safety
  • Hon. Daniel A. Bryant, appointed by the District and Metropolitan Court Judges' Association
  • Sheriff Mark Cage,  appointed by the House Minority Floor Leader
  • Teresa Casados, Acting Secretary of the Children, Youth, and Families Department
  • Hon. John Chavez, appointed by the New Mexico Supreme Court
  • Mark Donatelli, appointed by the Speaker of the House
  • Gregory Gaudette, appointed by the Senate Minority Floor Leader
  • Claire Harwell, appointed by the Governor
  • Brady Horn, Ph.D., appointed by the New Mexico Supreme Court
  • April Land, for the Dean of UNM School of Law
  • Krista Lawrence, appointed by the Governor
  • Ramona J. Martinez, appointed by the Senate President Pro Tem 
  • Anita Mesa, designee of Behavioral Health Services Division
  • Angela "Spence" Pacheco, appointed by the Speaker of the House
  • Hon. R. David Pederson, appointed by the District and Metropolitan Court Judges' Association
  • Arthur Pepin, Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts, appointed by the New Mexico Supreme Court
  • Dr. Arsenio Romero, Secretary of Public Education
  • Krista Lawrence, appointed by the Governor
  • Alisha Tafoya Lucero, Secretary of Corrections
  • Raul Torrez, Attorney General
  • Clint Wellborn, appointed by the New Mexico District Attorneys' Association
  • Sydney West, appointed by the Senate President Pro Tem
  • Vacant Slots: one public member to be appointed by the Speaker of the House and a county sheriff to be appointed by New Mexico Counties
  • Linda Freeman, New Mexico Sentencing Commission Executive Director
  • Douglas Carver, New Mexico Sentencing Commission Deputy Director