State Representative Pamelya Herndon is an attorney, 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 deputy cabinet secretary for New Mexico's General Services Department, former general counsel for the state's Regulation and Licensing Department, and served as an attorney with the IRS.

Since being appointed to House District 28 in 2021, Pamelya has championed 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. 

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.