Tomas Garcia Named to ABA Position
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Tomas Garcia has been appointed by the American Bar Association as State Membership Chair. He is commissioned with spearheading ABA membership growth and engagement in New Mexico. Tomas will serve a three-year term ending with the adjournment of the ABA’s Annual Meeting in 2022.
The appointment caps an active career of service to ABA:
- Young Lawyers Division Scholar (2014-2015);
- Associate Editor of the ABA Young Lawyers Division’s national publication The Young Lawyer (2014-2015);
- Vice Director of the Young Lawyers Division Affiliates Assistance Team (2015-2016);
- Vice Director of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee (2018-2019);
- YLD Men of Color Project Team Member (2018-2019)
- YLD Liaison to the ABA Litigation Section (2018-2020);
- ABA Business Law Section Fellow (2015-2017);
- Vice Chair of the ABA Business Law Section’s Technology & Communications Subcommittee (2015-2017);
- ABA Litigation Section Diverse Leaders Academy participant (2016-2018); and,
- Co-director of membership for the Litigation Section’s Products Liability Committee (2017-2018)
- ABA New Mexico State Membership Chair (2019 – 2022)
Earlier this year, Tomas received the ABA’s On the Rise – Top 40 Young Lawyers Award, and in 2015 New Mexico Defense Lawyers Association named him “Young Lawyer of the Year.” Tomas is ranked by Southwest Super Lawyers® and has an AV® peer-review rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
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