Heinrich, Luján To Deliver Remarks In Support Of Matthew L. Garcia For U.S. District Court For The District Of N.M. During Key Nominations Hearing

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 12, at approximately 8 a.m. MT/10 a.m. ET, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) will deliver remarks in support of Matthew L. Garcia’s nomination for U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. The senators will deliver the remarks virtually during a nominations hearing before the full Senate Committee on the Judiciary. 

A livestream will be available here. 

Senators Heinrich and Luján strongly recommended Garcia to join the District Court of New Mexico and welcomed President Joe Biden’s nomination in July of this year. 

Matthew L. Garcia has served in the Office of New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham as Chief of Staff from 2020 to 2022 and General Counsel from 2019 to 2020. From 2012 to 2018, he was a partner at Garcia Ives Nowara in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and from 2009 to 2012, he was a partner at Bach & Garcia in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mr. Garcia had his own solo practice from 2008 to 2009. From 2006-2008 Mr. Garcia was an associate at Freedman Boyd Daniels Hollander Goldberg & Ives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mr. Garcia received his J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 2005, an M.P.P. from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 2003, and a B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of New Mexico in 1999. 

Garcia’s nomination has received strong state and local support. Find a list with links to letters of support by clicking here.

WHO: U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) 

WHAT: Heinrich, Luján To Deliver Remarks In Support Of Matthew L. Garcia For U.S. District Court For The District Of New Mexico 

WHEN: Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 12, at approximately 8 a.m. MT/10 a.m. ET 

LIVESTREAM: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/10/12/2022/nominations