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Michelle Lujan Grisham Michelle Lujan Grisham official photo.jpg 32nd Governor of New Mexico Incumbent Assumed office January 1, 2019 Lieutenant Howie Morales Preceded by Susana Martinez Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Mexico's 1st district In office January 3, 2013 – December 31, 2018 Preceded by Martin Heinrich Succeeded by Deb Haaland Secretary of Health of New Mexico In office August 2004 – June 2007 Governor Bill Richardson Preceded by Patricia Montoya Succeeded by Alfredo Vigil Personal details Born Michelle Lynn Lujan October 24, 1959 (age 59)

Political party Democratic Spouse(s) Gregory Grisham (m. 1982; died 2004) Children 2 Relatives Ben Ray Luján (cousin) Residence Governor's Mansion Education University of New Mexico (BS, JD) Website Government website

Michelle Lynn Lujan Grisham, Los Alamos (New Mexico), V.S., 24 oktober 1959 is een Amerikaanse juriste en politica.

Sinds 1 januari 2019 fungeert zij als de 32ste gouverneur van New Mexico.

She previously represented New Mexico's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2018. On November 6, 2018, she became the first Democratic woman elected as governor of New Mexico, as well as the first Democratic Latina elected state chief executive in the history of the United States.

Lujan Grisham previously served as Secretary of Health of New Mexico (2004–2007) and Bernalillo County Commissioner (2010–2012). She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2012 election, defeating Janice Arnold-Jones. In 2016, Lujan Grisham was selected as the Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.[1] Lujan Grisham won the Democratic nomination for Governor of New Mexico in the 2018 election and defeated Republican Steve Pearce, on November 6, 2018.

Contents 1 Early life, family, and education 2 Early political career 3 U.S. House of Representatives 3.1 Elections 3.2 Tenure 3.2.1 Committee assignments 3.2.2 Caucuses 4 Governor of New Mexico 5 Positions 5.1 Abortion 5.2 Civil rights 5.3 Corporations 5.4 Education 5.5 Environment 5.6 Freedom of the press 5.7 Guns 5.8 Healthcare 5.9 Infrastructure 5.10 LGBT 5.11 Medical marijuana 5.12 Minimum wage 5.13 Poverty 5.14 Privacy of citizens 5.15 Voting rights 6 Personal life 7 See also 8 References 9 External links Early life, family, and education Lujan was born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and grew up in Santa Fe. Her father, Llewellyn "Buddy" Lujan,[2] practiced dentistry into his 80s until he died in March 2011. Her mother, Sonja, was a homemaker. Michelle's sister Kimberly was diagnosed with a brain tumor at the age of two and died at 21.[3]

Lujan Grisham states that her ancestors have inhabited New Mexico for 12 generations.[4] She hails from a prominent family in New Mexico.[5][6] Her uncle is Manuel Lujan Jr., who served in the House of Representatives from New Mexico as a Republican, and as Secretary of the Interior during the presidency of George H. W. Bush. He was the named petitioner in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife. Her grandfather, Eugene Lujan, was Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court.[7] Her cousin, Ben Ray Luján, represents New Mexico's 3rd congressional district in the House of Representatives,[8] while his father, Ben Luján, was Speaker of the New Mexico House of Representatives.

Lujan graduated from St. Michael's High School. She received a BS from the University of New Mexico (UNM) in 1981, where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. The following year she married Gregory Alan Grisham. In 1987, Lujan Grisham earned a JD from the UNM School of Law.[9][10]

Early political career Lujan Grisham served as Director of New Mexico's Agency on Aging under Governors Bruce King, Gary Johnson and Bill Richardson. Richardson elevated the position to the state cabinet. In 2004, he named Lujan Grisham as New Mexico Secretary of Health; she retained the office until 2007.[10]

Lujan Grisham was later elected to the Bernalillo County Commission, serving from 2010 through 2012.

U.S. House of Representatives Elections 2008

She resigned as Secretary of Health in order to run for the United States House of Representatives in the 2008 elections, losing in the Democratic primary to Martin Heinrich, who won with 44% of the vote. New Mexico Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron ranked second with 25% and Michelle Lujan-Grisham ranked third with 24%.[11][12][13]

2012 Lujan Grisham sought the Democratic nomination for the House again in 2012 after Martin Heinrich decided to run for the United States Senate. She won the nomination, defeating Marty Chavez and Eric Griego.[14] She faced Janice Arnold-Jones, a former member of the New Mexico House of Representatives, in the November general election.[15] Lujan Grisham defeated Arnold-Jones,[16] 59%–41%.[17]

2014 Lujan Grisham defeated Republican Mike Frese in the 2014 elections, 59% to 41%.[18]

2016 In 2016, Lujan Grisham defeated Republican Richard Priem, receiving 179,380 votes (65.1%) to Priem's 96,061 (34.9%).[19]

Tenure Lujan Grisham was sworn into a two-year term on January 3, 2013. In 2016 she was one of nine members of Congress who took a trip to Baku that was later found to have been secretly funded by the government of Azerbaijan, and had to turn over gifts the country gave her to the House Clerk after an ethics investigation. Both the Office of Congressional Ethics and House Ethics Committee found lawmakers and aides had no way of knowing the trip was being funded improperly.[20]

Lujan Grisham resigned her House seat as of December 31, 2018[21] to assume the governorship of New Mexico the following day.

Committee assignments Committee on Agriculture United States House Agriculture Subcommittee on Nutrition United States House Agriculture Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research, Ranking Member Committee on the Budget Caucuses Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Chairwoman Congressional Native American Caucus Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues Governor of New Mexico See also: 2018 New Mexico gubernatorial election On December 13, 2016, one week after Tom Udall announced he would not run for Governor of New Mexico, Lujan Grisham became the first person to announce her candidacy to succeed Susana Martinez, who is prohibited from running because of term limits.[22] On June 5, 2018, she won the Democratic primary to become the party's nominee. On November 6, 2018 she was elected Governor of New Mexico in a race against Republican U.S. Representative Steve Pearce. She won with 56.9% (385,684) of the votes, while Pearce received 43.1% (292,043). She was sworn in on January 1, 2019.[23]