SANTA FE – The Judicial Compensation Commission will hold an online meeting next week to consider possible recommendations to the 2021 Legislature concerning judicial salaries.
The meeting will be live streamed on the New Mexico Courts YouTube page.
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
DATE: Wednesday, Oct. 14.
The independent six-member commission is required by state law to annually recommend a judicial pay plan to the Legislative Finance Committee and the Department of Finance and Administration.
The commission is chaired by Sergio Pareja, dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law. Other members are Kathleen “Kay” Marr, former secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration; Deborah Seligman, Santa Fe; and Tina Cruz, president of the State Bar of New Mexico. Two commission positions are vacant.
The commission’s prior reports and the agenda for the Oct. 14 meeting are available online: https://www.nmcourts.
Agenda is as follows:
October 14, 2020
1:30 p.m.
Virtual Meeting via Zoom
Live stream on NM Courts YouTube channel
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1. Welcome and introductions (Chair Pareja)
2. Review minutes from October 18, 2019 Judicial Compensation
Commission meeting for approval, amendment, or disapproval in
accordance with the Open Meetings Act (Chair Pareja)
3. Report on legislative action during the 2020 session and First
Special Session (Arthur Pepin)
4. Discussion of Differences between Chief Judge/Justice and
Judge/Justice Salaries and Workloads in Other States (Arthur Pepin)
5. Proposed Constitutional Amendment or Statutory Proposal
regarding Authority of Judicial Compensation Commission (Arthur
Pepin)
6. Discuss recommendations; schedule draft and final report deadlines;
decide if additional meeting is required (Commission Members)
7. Adjourn (Chair Pareja)
