{"id":16714,"date":"2010-04-30T09:21:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=16714"},"modified":"2010-04-30T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:22:17","slug":"senate-confirms-new-u-s-attorney-for-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/04\/senate-confirms-new-u-s-attorney-for-new-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms new U.S. attorney for New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16715\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16715\" title=\"Gonzales, Ken\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Gonzales-Ken.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Gonzales<\/p><\/div>\n<p>U.S. senators unanimously confirmed the appointment of Ken Gonzales to be New Mexico\u2019s new U.S. attorney on Thursday. Gonzales is expected to be sworn in and start the new job within days.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of Gonzales\u2019 confirmation was made by U.S. Sens. <a href=\"http:\/\/bingaman.senate.gov\/\">Jeff Bingaman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tomudall.senate.gov\/\">Tom Udall<\/a>, D-N.M.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKen Gonzales has all the right qualifications for this very important position and I commend President Obama for nominating him,\u201d Bingaman said in a news release. \u201cI\u2019m very pleased that the Senate acted quickly \u2013 and unanimously \u2013 to approve Ken, and I wish him well in his new job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Udall said Gonzales, throughout his career, has \u201cshown a commitment to the people of\u00a0New Mexico\u00a0and the pursuit of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis legal expertise and decade of statewide service as an assistant U.S. attorney have prepared him well to lead this important office,\u201d Udall said. \u201cI congratulate Ken on his unanimous confirmation by the Senate and wish him great success serving as New Mexico\u2019s U.S. attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales is a graduate of Pojoaque High School, and received his\u00a0Bachelor of Arts\u00a0and\u00a0Juris Doctor degrees\u00a0from the\u00a0University of New Mexico.\u00a0Before taking a position in 1999 as a career prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney\u2019s New Mexico offices in\u00a0Las Cruces\u00a0and\u00a0Albuquerque, he served as a judicial law clerk to a\u00a0chief justice\u00a0of the\u00a0New Mexico Supreme Court, and was a legislative assistant to Bingaman on\u00a0criminal justice, Indian affairs and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>He has also been a judge advocate in the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. senators unanimously confirmed the appointment of Ken Gonzales to be New Mexico\u2019s new U.S. attorney on Thursday. Gonzales is expected to be sworn in and start the new job within days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-16714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}