Debra A. Haaland

A Representative from New Mexico. Born in Winslow, Navajo County, Ariz. , December 2, 1960. An enrolled member of the Laguna Pueblo. Graduated from Highland High School, Albuquerque, N. Mex. , 1978. B. A. , University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N. Mex. , 1994. Attended University of California, Los Angeles, Calif. , 2000. J. D. , University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N. Mex. , 2006. Business executive. Delegate, Democratic National Convention, 2008. Tribal administrator, San Felipe Pueblo, 2013-2015. Chair, New Mexico Democratic Party, 2015-2017. Elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Sixteenth and to the succeeding Congress until her resignation on March 16, 2021 (January 3, 2019-March 16, 2021). Secretary of the Interior in the Cabinet of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. , 2021-2025.