Patricia Madrid

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Patricia Madrid won her first campaign in 1978 when she became the first woman elected to sit as a district court judge in New Mexico. In 1998, she became the first woman elected Attorney General of the State of New Mexico, and in 2002 she was reelected in a landslide. She has been married to L. Michael Messina, an Albuquerque lawyer, for over thirty years, and has a son, Giancarlo, who graduated from the University of New Mexico and works in Washington DC. [1]

Madrid lost a very close election against Heather Wilson (R) in the race to represent New Mexico's 1st Congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006. See New Mexico U.S. House election, 2006.

External Links

Madrid for Congress
Madrid Declares She's Running for Wilson's Seat (Albuquerque Journal, 10-14-05)

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