Promises Made. Promises Kept.

Pamelya Herndon is the Democratic candidate for re-election to the New Mexico House of Representatives, District 28. Before she was ever elected to office, she spent years as an advocate, chasing legislators down the hallways of the Roundhouse to get a hearing for the people she represented. Today, she's on the other side of that conversation, turning advocacy into action. 

Pamelya is an attorney, a certified public accountant, and the President and CEO of a nonprofit law center that provides affordable legal representation to low-and middle-income New Mexicans. She's also a former estate tax attorney with the IRS, a former general counsel for the state's Regulation and Licensing Department, and a former deputy cabinet secretary for New Mexico's General Services Department.

Since being appointed to House District 28 in 2021, Pamelya has carried legislation to provide healthcare to all New Mexicans in the face of federal cuts, provide universal childcare, and offer free college education so young New Mexicans can build a future here at home. 

As Vice Chair of the House Health and Human Services Committee and a member of the House Appropriations and Finance Committee, she helps shape policies that support families, strengthen communities, and ensure responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars.

Pamelya and her husband, Alfred Mathewson, former dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law, raised their three children in Albuquerque's Northeast Heights.