Lemuel Martinez (`95) is serving as the 2011 president of the National Hispanic Prosecutors Association, the only professional membership organization dedicated to the advancement of Hispanics as prosecutors. He has been district attorney of the 13th Judicial District since 2001.
Martinez, an Albuquerque native, began his legal career as an assistant district attorney in Cibola County. He is past president, vice president and secretary/treasurer of the New Mexico District Attorney’s Association and he currently serves on the New Mexico Sentencing Commission.