Jan. 10—Nambé native Kenneth Gonzales is the new chief judge for the U.S. District Court in New Mexico, and he plans to work out of Santa Fe come this summer.
Gonzales stepped into the role effective Friday due to former chief judge William Johnson’s transition to senior status, according to a news release from the federal court. A Pojoaque Valley High School graduate, Gonzales was appointed a federal judge by President Barack Obama in 2013.
Gonzales has been stationed in Las Cruces, which is where Johnson was based, since becoming a judge. He “has spent considerable time presiding over a robust general criminal docket and a wide range of civil matters,” the news release says. However, his duty station will move up to Santa Fe in August.
After graduating from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1994, Gonzales worked as a clerk to then-state Supreme Court Chief Justice Joseph Baca and then as a legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingham before becoming an assistant U.S. attorney in New Mexico in 1999. He became the state’s top U.S. attorney in 2010.
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