N.M. Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission appoints a retired N.M. Air National Guard superintendent

From a press release

The New Mexico Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission (JPEC) has appointed Richard R. Carbajal Sr. of Sabinal, N.M., south of Belen, and Stacy Blazer-Clark, of Las Cruces, as its newest members.

Carbajal is retired from the New Mexico Air National Guard, where he served for 33 years in increasingly responsible positions during a career as an avionics sensor technician.

His most recent positions include maintenance operations flight superintendent, maintenance operations center section chief and maintenance operations center supervisor with the 150 Special Operations and the 150 Fighter Wing, respectively, at Kirtland Air Force Base.

He also served in law enforcement for eight years as a shift supervisor and patrol officer for the University of New Mexico Police Department and a patrol officer with the Belen Police Department.

Carbajal earned an associate degree in avionic systems technology from the Community College of the Air Force and, is an outstanding graduate of the Senior Noncommissioned Officer (NCO) Academy at the Air University of Maxwell Air Force Base and the NCO Academy at Kirtland Air Force Base.

He continues to serve his community as a sports official and a member of the New Mexico Officials Association executive board, and is co-founder and community outreach coordinator of Operation Harvest Outreach at his local church.

He and his wife, Theresa, are the proud parents of seven children and 10 grandchildren.

Blazer-Clark is the director of the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs Statewide SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner).

The New Mexico Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission is comprised of 15 individuals — seven lawyers and eight non-lawyers — who are appointed by the N.M. Supreme Court to staggered terms.

Members are selected from nominations made by the governor, chief justice of the Supreme Court, speaker of the House, Senate president pro tempore, House minority leader, Senate minority leader and president of the N.M. State Bar. Members are appointed to represent diverse professions, backgrounds and geographical areas of the state.