Kenneth J. Gonzales, United States Attorney
On April 30, 2010, President Obama signed the Commission of Kenneth J. Gonzales as United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Mr. Gonzales took the oath of office on May 3, 2010. As United States Attorney, Mr. Gonzales serves as the top federal law enforcement officer in New Mexico and represents the United States’ interests in civil cases. He supervises more than 130 staff members, including 76 attorneys in Albuquerque and Las Cruces.
Mr. Gonzales serves on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee’s Subcommittees on Native American Issues and Southwest Border and Immigration Issues. He also is a member of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee’s Environmental and Natural Resources Working Group. Mr. Gonzales is the Chairman of the Executive Board of the New Mexico High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program (HIDTA), an initiative designed to combat the production, importation, transportation and distribution of controlled substances in 28 designated regions around the United States. Mr. Gonzales also is a member of the Tenth Circuit Advisory Council.
Mr. Gonzales, a native New Mexican, received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of New Mexico. After law school, he served as a judicial law clerk to New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Joseph F. Baca. Mr. Gonzales then joined Senator Jeff Bingaman’s Office as a legislative assistant. In 1999, Mr. Gonzales began his career as a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office in the District of New Mexico. During his tenure in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Gonzales primarily prosecuted large-scale narcotics trafficking cases, but he has prosecuted a wide range of federal offenses, including immigration, firearms and violent crime cases. Mr. Gonzales also served on the District’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council, a network of local, state, tribal, and federal officials working together to detect, deter and prevent terrorism and promote national security.
Mr. Gonzales has served in the United States Army Reserve since 2001 and currently holds the rank of Captain. He is assigned to the Judge Advocate General Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia, as an Adjunct Professor of Criminal Law. In 2008, Mr. Gonzales was mobilized to active duty as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and was stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina to augment the XVIII Airborne Corps, as Senior Trial Counsel in the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate.
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