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The State Bar of New Mexico first met on January 19, 1886, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, [2] as a voluntary professional organization. There were 29 original members, and William A. Vincent was the first president. [3] In 1925, state statute caused the State Bar to operate as an agency of the New Mexico Supreme Court.
For example, in Virginia, the Virginia State Bar is the mandatory organization and the Virginia Bar Association is voluntary. There are many bar associations other than state bar associations. Usually these are organized by geography (e.g. county bar associations), area of practice, or affiliation (e.g. ethnic bar associations).
Edith Gutierrez: [37] First female (non-attorney) judge in Silver City, New Mexico [Grant County, New Mexico] Bettye Dean: [38] First female magistrate in Lincoln County, New Mexico (1983) Angela "Spence" Pacheco: [39] First female to serve as the judicial district attorney in Los Alamos, Rio Arriba, and Santa Fe Counties, New Mexico (2008)
The State Bar of New Jersey, for example, requires a non-refundable fee for admission by motion of $1,500. [7] Out of all the states that allow admission on motion, New York has the lowest admission on motion fee at $400. [1] Montana and New Mexico, on the other hand, require the highest admission on motion fee of $2,500. [1]
In 2004, Colón was named Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year by the State Bar of New Mexico and one of New Mexico's Forty Under 40 Power Brokers by the New Mexico Business Weekly. Colón has served on the New Mexico Hispanic Bar Association's Board of Directors since 2001 [5] and is a member of the American Inns of Court.
A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence. [1] The word bar is derived from the old English/European custom of using a physical railing (bar) to separate the area in which court or legal profession business is done from the viewing area for the general public or students of the law.
Hector Hugo Balderas Jr. (born August 16, 1973) is an American lawyer and former prosecutor who served as the attorney general of New Mexico from 2015 to 2023. In 2006, Balderas became the youngest statewide Hispanic elected official in the nation when he won his first race for New Mexico state auditor at the age of 33. [1]
New Mexico Attorney General articles at ABA Journal; News and Commentary at FindLaw; New Mexico Statutes at Law.Justia.com; U.S. Supreme Court Opinions – "Cases with title containing: State of New Mexico" at FindLaw; State Bar of New Mexico; New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas profile at National Association of Attorneys General