Chief Justice Shannon Bacon

LWVLA News:

This month’s League of Women Voter’s Los Alamos (LWVLA) community Lunch with a Leader is noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, April 20, in the Fellowship Hall at the Unitarian Church.

The speaker is New Mexico Supreme Court Chief Justice Shannon Bacon. The Chief Justice will attend on Zoom, but there will be no zoom for others. The meeting will be recorded.

Chief Justice Bacon was appointed to the New Mexico Supreme Court Jan. 25, 2019, after being recommended by the nonpartisan Judicial Nominating Commission. After growing up in Albuquerque, Bacon earned her bachelor’s degree in history at Creighton University in Omaha and her Juris Doctorate at Creighton School of Law. She then returned to Albuquerque, where she worked as a professor at the University of New Mexico Law School and as a civil attorney.

Prior to her appointment to the Supreme Court, Justice Bacon served as a district court judge on the Second Judicial District Court, presiding over cases spanning complex civil litigation, class actions, adult guardianship and conservatorship cases, real estate and contract disputes, election issues to domestic and children’s court cases and appeals. Justice Bacon also was the Bernalillo County Water and Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District Judge and served on numerous commissions and committees as well as on non-profit boards that address the needs of youth experiencing homelessness.