{"id":895,"date":"2006-11-17T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/former-judge-duran-returns-to-las-cruces\/"},"modified":"2006-11-17T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T22:05:00","slug":"former-judge-duran-returns-to-las-cruces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/former-judge-duran-returns-to-las-cruces\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Judge Duran returns to Las Cruces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/6506\/2852\/1600\/156019\/Duran%2C%20Grace.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/6506\/2852\/200\/39353\/Duran%2C%20Grace.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Former District Judge Grace Duran has returned to <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Duran, the first woman elected to the Third Judicial District Court bench in <st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename>, left that job in May 2005 to head the U.S. Homeland Security Department\u2019s Customs Enforcement Law Division in <st1:place st=\"on\">Puerto Rico<\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to an advertisement in today\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lascrucesbulletin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Bulletin<\/a>, she\u2019s back in town and has opened a law office. Duran\u2019s practice is general but will focus on domestic relations issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Duran was first elected in November 1996. She was a child support hearing officer and domestic violence commissioner from 1991 to 1996, and was in private practice before that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Duran is married to Udell Vigil, who heads the City of <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> public information office. They have two sons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I have a call in to Duran but, thus far, haven\u2019t been able to reach her. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former District Judge Grace Duran has returned to Las Cruces. Duran, the first woman elected to the Third Judicial District Court bench in Do\u00f1a Ana County, left that job in May 2005 to head the U.S. Homeland Security Department\u2019s Customs Enforcement Law Division in Puerto Rico. According to an advertisement in today\u2019s Las Cruces Bulletin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","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=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}