Secretary of State of New Mexico

Secretary of State of New Mexico
Seal of New Mexico
Incumbent Brad Winter since December 15, 2015
Term length	Four years
Formation	1912
First holder	Antonio J. Lucero
Website	Secretary of State of New Mexico

The Secretary of State of New Mexico is one of the elected constitutional officers of the U.S. state of New Mexico.

From 1923 to 2015, every Secretary of State of New Mexico had been a woman. The position became vacant in October 2015 due to the resignation of Dianna Duran after criminal charges were filed by the New Mexico Attorney General alleging the conversion of campaign funds to personal gambling debt.^[1] Brad Winter was appointed as her successor.^[2]

Organization

The Secretary of State's Office is composed of four divisions:^[3]

• The Bureau of Elections administers elections and enforces local, state, and federal election laws. The bureau's duties include training county clerks and voting machine technicians, maintaining the state's voter registration database, filing petitions of candidacy for official running for election, and administering the Native American Election Information Program, which is a special program to help improve voter registration and voter turnout among the Native American populations within the state.^[4]
• The Ethics Administration regulates campaign finance and lobbying within the state, and provides ethics training to various parties involved in government.
• The Information Systems Division maintains the Secretary of State's computer systems, and assists the Bureau of Elections in the management of the voter registration system.
• The Operations Division provides various administrative and business-related services to the people of New Mexico. This includes filing of security interests under the Uniform Commercial Code^[5] and the Food Security Act of 1985,^[6] registration of trademarks, formation of general partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability partnerships (in New Mexico, corporations and Limited liability companies are registered by the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission).^[7] This division is also responsible for licensing of notaries public^[8] and issuance of apostilles.^[9]

Other duties

The Secretary maintains records of bills signed into law, referendum petitions, and legislative journals, and ensures that proposed amendments to the New Mexico Constitution are published in at least one newspaper in every county in the state for four consecutive weeks, in both English and Spanish. The Secretary also serves as registered agent for service of process for foreign corporations in some lawsuits.^[10]

List of New Mexico Secretaries of State

#	Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party
1	Antonio J. Lucero	1912	1918	Dem
2	Manuel Martínez	1919	1922	Rep
3	Soledad C. Chacón	1923	1926	Dem
4	Jennie Fortune	1927	1928	Dem
5	E. A. Perrault	1929	1930	Rep
6	Marguerite P. Baca	1931	1934	Dem
7	Elizabeth F. Gonzales	1935	1938	Dem
8	Jessie M. Gonzales	1939	1942	Dem
9	Cecilia T. Cleveland	1943	1946	Dem
10	Alicia Valdez Romero	1947	1950	Dem
11	Beatrice Roach Gottlieb	1951	1954	Dem
12	Natalie Smith Buck	1955	1958	Dem
13	Betty Fiorina	1959	1962	Dem
14	Alberta Miller	1963	1966	Dem
15	Ernestine Durán Evans	1967	1970	Dem
16	Betty Fiorina	1971	1974	Dem
17	Ernestine Durán Evans	1975	1978	Dem
18	Shirley Hooper	1979	1982	Dem
19	Clara Padilla Jones	1983	1986	Dem
20	Rebecca Vigil-Giron	1987	1990	Dem
21	Stephanie Gonzales	1991	1998	Dem
22	Rebecca Vigil-Giron	1999	2006	Dem
23	Mary Herrera	2007	2010	Dem
24	Dianna Duran	2011	2015	Rep
—	Mary Quintana (Acting)[11]	2015	2015
25	Brad Winter[12]	2015	Present	Rep
Source:[13]

Notes

References

1. http://www.abqjournal.com/664411/news/state-democratic-party-says-secretary-of-state-has-resigned.html
2. http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s3991960.shtml#.VnRRL0orLIU
3. About the Office of the New Mexico Secretary of State
4. Native American Election Information Program
5. New Mexico UCC information
6. New Mexico Central Filing System for Agricultural Liens
7. New Mexico Partnership FAQ
8. New Mexico Notary Public information
9. New Mexico apostille information
10. Service of Process upon the New Mexico Secretary of State
11. New Mexico secretary of state resigns, enters guilty plea , Associated Press, Oct 23, 2015
12. ABQ Councilor Brad Winter sworn in as secretary of state, KOB TV, Dec 15, 2015
13. State of New Mexico (July 2012). Kathryn A. Flynn, ed. 2012 Centennial Blue Book (PDF). Diana J. Duran. Office of the New Mexico Secretary of State. p. 224.

External links

• Official homepage of the New Mexico Secretary of State