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Democratic Party of New Mexico Leaders

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  Brian Colon

  Chair
  brian@nmdemocrats.org
  505-830-3650 (office)
  1301 San Pedro NE   Albuquerque, New Mexico  87110
  
  Mr. Colón was raised in Valencia County. He received his Bachelor's Degree from New Mexico State University in 1998 and graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 2001. In 2004, Mr. Colón was named Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year by the New Mexico State Bar Association and one of New Mexico's Forty Under 40 Power Brokers by the New Mexico Business Weekly. Mr. Colón has served on the New Mexico Hispanic Bar Association's Board of Directors since 2001 and is currently a member of the American Inns of Court. Mr. Colón also chairs Popejoy Hall's Board of Directors and serves with the Board of Trustees for the Albuquerque Community Foundation. He has served on the State Bar of New Mexico Committee on Diversity since 2003, is a Board Member for the New Mexico College Success Network, has been a Board Member for the NMSU Alumni Association, is active in Lobos for Legislation, and has twice been appointed by Governor Richardson as a Commissioner for the Judicial Selection Commission. Mr. Colón’s civil practice is in the areas of transactional negotiations, personal injury, medical malpractice, inadequate security, products liability, insurance bad faith, and corporate transactions. Mr. Colón also has extensive experience in working with local, state and federal elected officials in order to assist individuals and organizations with their various agendas.
  

• Annadelle Sanchez

  Vice-Chair
  annadelle@nmdemocrats.org
  505-830-3645 (fax)
  1301 San Pedro NE   Albuquerque, New Mexico  87110
  
  Annadelle has been involved in politics since she was “5 years old” when her father was a Precinct Chair. For 36 years she worked for National Education Association of New Mexico as the director of Political Affairs. Annadelle’s first job was in the office of Governor Burroughs which she started just after graduating from high school. She continued working there summers and holidays through her college career at University of New Mexico (UNM). During her UNM years she was Vice-Chair of the Young Democrats (a tradition her children continued when they went to UNM). She has been involved in all the Presidential campaigns and conventions since John F. Kennedy when she was a Kennedy Girl. In 1964 she went to the convention in Atlantic City, N.J. as a Johnson Girl. For 18 years Annadelle was the Regional Vice-Chair of the Democrat Party for the 3rd District and is now the State Vice-Chair. Annadelle lives in Espanola and is married to Max Sanchez, the former State Auditor, and is the mother of two children, a son Steven and a daughter Erica.
  

• Tom Buckner

  Treasurer
  tom@nmdemocrats.org
  505-830-3650 (office)
  505-830-3645 (fax)
  1301 San Pedro NE   Albuquerque, New Mexico  87110
  

• Christy French

  Secretary
  christy@nmdemocrats.org
  505-830-3645 (fax)
  1301 San Pedro NE   Albuquerque, New Mexico  87114
  

• Mary Gail Gwaltney

  DNC Committeperson
  505-830-3645 (fax)
  1301 San Pedro NE   Albuquerque, New Mexico  87110
  
  Mary Gail has been active in New Mexico politics for years and attended her first national convention in 1988. This is her fourth term as New Mexico’s National Committeewoman and she serves on the Executive Board of the DNC. Mary Gail is a forty-eight year resident of Las Cruces whose husband served in the New Mexico State Senate for ten years. Interestingly, Mary Gail’s great-great-great grandfather was the first “Democratic” Governor of Georgia (1831-1835) –Wilson Lumpkin. Governor Lumpkin also served in the U.S. Congress and Senate. (Prior to Governor Lumpkin, there had been Jefferson-Republicans, and Whigs. One was listed as party affiliation unknown).
  

• Raymond Sanchez

  DNC Committeperson
  505-830-3645 (fax)
  1301 San Pedro NE   Albuquerque`, New Mexico  87110
  

• Christine Trujillo

  DNC Committeperson-at-Large
  
  Christine is an active Democratic who lives in Albuquerque and was born and raised in Taos, New Mexico. Her father was a land grant recipient of Piedras Lumbres and Conejos Land Grants. She traces her family back to late 1600's with 16 brothers and sisters (11 siblings still alive.) Currently, Christine is the President of New Mexico Federation of Labor-AFL-CIO (the first educator and female to serve in that role and one of three women in the nation); President of New Mexico Federation of Educational Employees/American Federation of Teachers; twenty year veteran teacher (on leave of absence); Commissioner-Public Education Commission-District 3; Albuquerque Member - Education Commission of the States (Appointed by Governor Richardson 2003); Member - NMPSIA (New Mexico Public School Insurance Authority); Vice President - Parents Reaching Out for Children with Disabilities; Vice-Chair LESC Charter School Ad Hoc; Committee Member, LESC EIATF Ad Hoc Committee (Educational Initiatives and Accountability Task Force); UNM Educational Leadership Task Force President; De Colores Hispanic Culture Festival Vice President for Scholarships; MANA de Albuquerque Vice President; and New Mexico Human Rights Coalition Member - NARAL-NM Her awards are numerous and include the "Si Se Puede" Achievement Award, the Albuquerque Human Rights Award, the "Brindis a la Mujer Hispana" Award, the "Women on the Move" Award, the MANA National Public Service Award, and the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce Honored Visionaries in Education Award. Christine Trujilo was invited by General George Casey to speak in Bad Krazneuch, Giessen, Baumholder in Germany and the first ever speaker to address the deployed troops in Kosovo at Camp Montieth and Camp Bondsteel. She was also the Keynote Speaker for American Federation of Teachers’ Human Rights Conference. Trujillo’s father is Pablo Augustine Trujillo who was deceased in 1996 and her mother is Susanna Floripa Trujillo de Gonzales— who is alive is 86 years old. Her father, Pablo A. Trujillo, was a guitar player with a group called Los Alegres de Taos. They played "la musica de los viejitos" turn of the century music and his music is in the archives at the Smithsonian. In addition, he had a big role in the movie, the Milagro Beanfield War. He was a character named Gomersindo Leyba in the "Senile Brigade" (the little old men with the guns in the old truck). He had several speaking lines and his band of musicians plays at the end of the movie in the beanfield harvest scene. Christine received her Masters Degree in Elementary Education from the University of New Mexico in 1988 after receiving a B.A. in Elementary Education with Bilingual Certification from New Mexico Highlands University. She has 2 daughters, 2 stepsons, and 1 absolutely darling granddaughter.
  

• Chris Catechis

  CD 1 Vice Chair
  505-830-3650 (office)
  1301 San Pedro NE   Albuquerque, New Mexico  87110
  

• Terri Holland

  CD 1 Vice Chair
  Terribk7@aol.com
  1301 San Pedro NE   Albuquerque, New Mexico  87110
  

• Matthew Runnels

  CD 2 Vice Chair
  505-830-3650 (office)
  1301 San Pedro NE   Albuquerque, New Mexico  87110
  

• Stephanie Dubois

  CD 2 Vice Chair
  505-830-3650 (office)
  1301 San Pedro NE   Albuquerque, New Mexico  87110
  

• Martin Suazo

  CD 3 Vice Chair
  505-830-3650 (office)
  1301 San Pedro NE   Albuquerque, New Mexico  87110
  

• Conny Maki

  CD 3 Vice Chair
  505-830-3650 (office)
  1301 San Pedro NE   Albuquerque, New Mexico  87110