Gene Gallegos, Esq.
UNM Regent

Gene Gallegos is president of the Gallegos Law Firm, P.C. He has achieved widespread recognition for his experience in commercial and antitrust litigation, with particular emphasis on complex natural gas matters. He is recognized by the New Mexico Board of Legal Specialization as a specialist in the area of Natural Resources - Oil and Gas Law. Mr. Gallegos is also president of Pro NM Energy Inc., a small independent oil and gas producing company that focuses its business in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico.

Mr. Gallegos received two degrees from the University of New Mexico: a bachelor’s in government and psychology in 1956 and a juris doctorate in 1960. He entered the private practice of law in 1963, after service as an assistant U.S. attorney and assistant attorney general of New Mexico. He was a senior shareholder in the Santa Fe law firm of Jones, Gallegos, Snead & Wertheim since the firm became a professional corporation in 1975. He left that firm in the spring of 1987 and started the Gallegos Law Firm. Along with serving on the UNM Foundation Board of Trustees, Mr. Gallegos is a regent of the University of New Mexico.