Change of Command Banquet

Help us wish our outgoing board members farewell and welcome our new board members.  
Our special guest speaker will be The Honorable Judge Jerry Ritter, United States Magistrate Judge. 

JERRY H. RITTER is a United States Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District of New Mexico since September 5, 2017. He was a District Judge for New Mexico's Twelfth Judicial District (Otero and Lincoln Counties) from 1997 to 2017 and served six years as Chief Judge. Judge Ritter graduated from New Mexico State University in 1983 and from The University of New Mexico School of Law in 1987. From 1987 to 1992, he practiced law in Anchorage, Alaska, and was the first general counsel for Ahtna, Inc., an Alaska Native Regional Corporation. In 1992, he returned to New Mexico and was in private practice until 1994 when he became an Assistant District Attorney for the Twelfth Judicial District. During his tenure on the New Mexico trial bench, Judge Ritter served on the New Mexico Judicial Standards Commission for eight years, on the New Mexico Sentencing Commission since its creation, on the statewide Chief Judges' Council Budget Committee, first as a rural court representative and later as chair, as a New Mexico delegate to the American Bar Association's National Conference of State Trial Judges, and on other court committees. Judge Ritter is married with six adult children.