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.

The current Secretary of State is Dianna Duran.

Organization

The Secretary of State's Office is composed of four divisions^[1]:

• 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.^[2]
• 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^[3] and the Food Security Act of 1985^[4], 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).^[5] This division is also responsible for licensing of notaries public^[6] and issuance of apostilles^[7].

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.^[8]

List of New Mexico Secretaries of State

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

References

1. ^ About the Office of the New Mexico Secretary of State
2. ^ Native American Election Information Program
3. ^ New Mexico UCC information
4. ^ New Mexico Central Filing System for Agricultural Liens
5. ^ New Mexico Partnership FAQ
6. ^ New Mexico Notary Public information
7. ^ New Mexico apostille information
8. ^ Service of Process upon the New Mexico Secretary of State

External links

• Official homepage of the New Mexico Secretary of State