The League of Women Voter’s (LWV) community event, Lunch with a Leader, will feature Rep. Christine Chandler noon-1 p.m. Thursday, April 17, at the Unitarian Fellowship Hall on Sage. Post file photo

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The League of Women Voter’s (LWV) community event, Lunch with a Leader, will feature Rep. Christine Chandler noon-1 p.m. Thursday, April 17, at the Unitarian Fellowship Hall on Sage.

Rep. Chandler will review the 2025 Legislative Session. She serves as chair of the House Judiciary Committee and a member of the House Taxation and Revenue Committee. During the interim, Rep. Chandler chairs the Courts, Corrections and Justice Committee and is a member of the Revenue Stabilization and Tax Policy Committee.

Rep. Chandler has focused on the state’s employment laws with the aim of leveling the playing field between the employer and employee. In 2020, she was the lead co-sponsor on the Healthy Workplaces Act, which ensures that every worker in the state receives paid sick leave. She continues to work to pass paid family and medical leave legislation.

As chair of the Taxation & Revenue Committee, she led the fight to lower the tax burden on more that 70% of working New Mexicans. She led efforts to protect workers from wage theft, ensure due process in the leasing of water rights, provide consumer protections for private post-secondary students, and offer retirement security for private sector workers. Rep. Chandler also worked to pass Roxy’s Law to prohibit trapping on public lands.

Rep. Chandler graduated from Smith College with a degree in economics and earned law degrees from Boston College and Georgetown University. Prior to her election as State Representative for House District 43 in 2019, she served as Probate Judge and County Councilor for two terms while working as an attorney and manager at Los Alamos National Laboratory.