Biography
Deb Haaland is the Democratic nominee for governor. An enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna, she served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 2021 to 2025 and as U.S. Representative for New Mexico's 1st District from 2019 to 2021.[1][2]
Haaland earned a B.A. in English from the University of New Mexico in 1994 and a J.D. from the UNM School of Law in 2006.[1] As a single mother, she started a salsa company.[1]
She chaired the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2015 to 2017 and was the party's 2014 nominee for lieutenant governor.[1][2] Haaland was elected to Congress in 2018 as one of the first two Native American women in the U.S. House, and the Senate confirmed her as Interior Secretary on March 15, 2021, by a vote of 51–40.[1]
- 1.Deb Haaland · Wikipedia · 2026-10-21 Reference
- 2.2026 New Mexico gubernatorial election · Wikipedia · 2026-10-21 Reference
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