On April 17, Lunch with a Leader will begin at noon at the Unitarian Fellowship Hall on Sage Street..  The Annual Meeting will follow at 1:10 p.m.  Our speaker during lunch will be our own Representative Christine Chandler, who will review this last legislative session.  Currently she serves as Chair of the House Judiciary Committee and as a member of the House Taxation and Revenue Committee.  During the interim, she chairs the Courts, Corrections and Justice Committee and is a member of the Revenue Stabilization and Tax Policy Committee.

Chandler has focused on the state's employment laws with the aim of leveling the playing field between the employer and employee.  In 2020, she was the lead co-sponsor on the Healthy Workplaces Act, which ensures that every worker in the state receives paid sick leave.  She continues to work to pass paid family and medical leave legislation.

As Chair of the Taxation & Revenue Committee, she led the fight to lower the tax burden on more that 70% of working New Mexicans.  She led efforts to protect workers from wage theft, ensure due process in the leasing of water rights, provide consumer protections for private post-secondary students, and offer retirement security for private sector workers.  She also worked to pass Roxy’s Law to prohibit trapping on public lands.

Chandler graduated from Smith College with a degree in economics and earned law degrees from Boston College and Georgetown University.  Prior to her election as State Representative for House District 43 in 2019, she had served as Probate Judge and as County Councilor for two terms while working as an attorney and manager at LANL.