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
• Michael Lilley, appointed by the Senate President Pro Tem
• 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
• Sheriff Michael Reeves, appointed by New Mexico Counties
• Dr. Arsenio Romero, Secretary of Public Education
• David Schmidt, appointed by the Senate President Pro Tem
• Alisha Tafoya Lucero, Secretary of Corrections
• Raul Torrez, Attorney General
• Clint Wellborn, appointed by the New Mexico District Attorneys' Association
• Vacant Slots: Behavioral Health Services Division and one public member to be appointed by the Governor
• Linda Freeman, New Mexico Sentencing Commission Executive Director
• Douglas Carver, New Mexico Sentencing Commission Deputy Director