Governor Susana Martinez announced the appointment of Timothy Aldrich to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Henry Quintero.
Aldrich has served as deputy district attorney in the Sixth Judicial District Attorney’s office since 2015.
He also has been a children’s court attorney in Alamogordo and Silver City, as well as a deputy district attorney in the Twelfth Judicial District Attorney’s office.
A media release said Aldrich has more than twenty years of private sector and non-profit legal experience, including criminal, commercial, and tribal law.
He holds a Juris Doctorate from Hamline University School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota.