In the News

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"After Uvalde horror, lawmaker to hold town hall on crime and guns."

"Crime crisis can’t wait until the next legislative session."

"What happened to the Bennie Hargrove Act?"

"Rep. Herndon is working to get the legislation ready for the upcoming session, saying this is a priority."

"Rep. Pamelya Herndon is ready to help tackle long-standing problems in the New Mexico State Legislature."

 "With bipartisan support and unprecedented state revenues, the Legislature passed comprehensive public safety legislation..."

"Senate bill 12, which was sponsored by Senators Pinto, Lopez, and Representative Pamelya Herndon, will create the position of a missing Indigenous person specialist with the office of the Attorney General." 

Pamelya Herndon elected Secretary of State Democratic Party

“The first inkling that New Mexico state Rep. Pamelya Herndon (D) had that a fatal school shooting had just unfolded near her Albuquerque field office came as helicopters hovered overhead and police shouted from loudspeakers that everyone in the area should take shelter.”

"New Mexico is one of 20 states that has no child access prevention law, according to the Giffords Law Center. That’s despite the fact that if children as young as 6 did not have access to guns, according to a Post analysis, well more than half of the country’s school shootings since 1999 would never have happened."

Long-time reproductive justice advocate and lawyer Pamelya Herndon, who is acting as a legal advisor to the group, said the council will “lift the voices of Native women.” 

“I got my passion for social justice issues from my mother,” Herndon said.

Pamelya Herndon, CEO of KWH Law Center for Social Justice and Change, will be among the panelists at Albuquerque Business First's Fall Women's Summit.

 “I was going to be the civil rights worker who was going to change the world,” said Pamelya Herndon. 

Herndon explains that the NAACP believes that protests must be peaceful so that the demand for justice is not muted.