Xochitl Torres Small

A Representative from New Mexico. Born in Portland, Multnomah County, Oreg. , November 15, 1984. Graduated from Waterford Kamhlaba United World College of Southern Africa, Eswatini (then Swaziland), 2003. B. S. F. S. , Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. , 2007. J. D. , University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N. Mex. , 2015. Lawyer, private practice. Law clerk, federal district court of N. Mex. , 2015-2016. Staff, Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico, 2009-2012. Elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress (January 3, 2019-January 3, 2021). Unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress in 2020. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development, United States Department of Agriculture, 2021-2023. Deputy Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture, 2023-2025.