NEW MEXICO REDISTRICTING WEBINAR APRIL 29 at 10 am (MDT)
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New Mexico’s Citizen Redistricting Committee – A comparison with similar models
With Peter Wattson & Former NM Supreme Court Judge Edward Chavez

Justice Chavez will give a brief summary of the New Mexico Citizen Redistricting Committee created by SB304. Mr. Wattson will discuss other states with redistricting models similar to the Citizen Redistricting Committee (CRC). He will also give advice on what we can do to prepare even before the CRC starts. They will take questions as they arise.

 

Peter S. Wattson is beginning his sixth decade of redistricting. He served as Senate Counsel to the Minnesota Senate from 1971 to 2011 and as General Counsel to Governor Mark Dayton from January to June 2011. He assisted with drawing, attacking, and defending redistricting plans throughout that time. He served as Staff Chair of the National Conference of State Legislatures’ (NCSL) Reapportionment Task Force in 1989, its Redistricting Task Force in 1999, and its Committee on Redistricting and Elections in 2009. Since retiring in 2011, he has participated in redistricting lawsuits in Arkansas, Kentucky, and Florida, and lectured regularly at NCSL seminars on redistricting.

 

Edward Chavez, Former New Mexico Supreme Court Justice
Justice Chavez is a former Justice and Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court. He was appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor Bill Richardson and served from March 10, 2003 to March 2018. Justice Chavez oversaw the litigation concerning the New Mexico House Redistricting maps in 2011. Justice Chavez was the co-Chair of the 2020 New Mexico First Redistricting Task Force.