Susana MartinezSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Before she was elected as governor, Martinez was a prosecutor for 25 years along the nation’s southern border and served as Doña Ana County’s elected district attorney for over half that time. As her county’s top criminal prosecutor, she specialized throughout her career in child abuse and sexual abuse cases.

A hard-charging education reformer and budget guru, Martinez is an optimistic conservative leader who worked with Republicans and Democrats alike to put the state’s fiscal house in order, raise academic standards and graduation rates, and usher in a true economic turnaround in New Mexico.

As governor, she also prioritized keeping New Mexico’s communities safe, ensuring all students receive a high-quality education, and diversifying and growing the state’s economy. Governor Martinez won the re-election in New Mexico in 2014, by the largest margin of any Republican gubernatorial candidate in modern history, earning substantial support from Democratic and Independent voters in rural and urban areas alike.

During her time in office, she served alongside a Democratically-controlled Legislature with the exception of a two-year period of Republican control of one chamber. She has been named The Time Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential People in the World and served as a Chairman and long-time executive committee member of the Republican Governors Association (RGA).

She broke RGA fundraising records during her chairmanship and at the conclusion of her term, Republicans held the greatest number of gubernatorial offices in U.S. history.