New Mexico State Game Commissioners
Tirzio Lopez
Appointed at-large
Attention: Tirzio Lopez
1 Wildlife Way,
Santa Fe, NM 87507
Tirzio Lopez currently works for the United States Government as a security professional. Lopez previously worked as a park ranger for New Mexico State Parks, the National Park Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the State of New Mexico. He was a member of the Chama Valley Independent School District School Board until 2019. He is active in the organized labor movement, where he has served as President of the Northern New Mexico Central Labor Council; as an executive officer for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; and he currently sits on the Executive Board of the University Professional and Technical Employees Local 1663. Lopez earned two degrees in criminal justice from New Mexico State University. Lopez runs a small farm and enjoys hunting and fishing throughout the State of New Mexico and was raised to be a steward for the land and its wildlife – as Aldo Leopold did.
Gregg Fulfer
District 1: Curry, De Baca, Roosevelt, Chaves, Lincoln, Otero, Eddy and Lea counties
Attention: Gregg Fulfer
1 Wildlife Way,
Santa Fe, NM 87507
Sharon Salazar Hickey
Chair
District 4: Santa Fe, Taos, Colfax, Union, Mora, Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Guadalupe and Torrance counties
Attention: Sharon Salazar Hickey
1 Wildlife Way,
Santa Fe, NM 87507
Sharon Salazar Hickey serves as a Program Manager for the Associate Laboratory Director for Environment, Safety, Health, Quality, Safeguards and Security at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Leading the Office of Institutional Policy, she has extensive experience in policies and procedures, government contracts, employment law and alternative dispute and conflict resolution. Receiving her Juris Doctorate degree from California Western School of Law, Salazar Hickey is a member of the New Mexico State Bar. She has also served on the New Mexico Youth Conservation Corps Commission since 2012. As an avid outdoor enthusiast, Salazar Hickey loves spending time hiking, biking and snowshoeing.
Edward Garcia
District 5: Bernalillo county
Attention: Edward Garcia
1 Wildlife Way,
Santa Fe, NM 87507
Fernando Clemente Jr.
Appointed at-large
Attention: Fernando Clemente Jr.
1 Wildlife Way,
Santa Fe, NM 87507
Fernando Clemente Jr. is a wildlife biologist with over 20 years of expertise and experience across multiple branches of natural resource management. He has owned and operated New Mexico Specialized Wildlife Services since 2012, served as a professor at La Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua since 2021, and has served as president of the Sunland Park Chamber of Commerce since 2019. He is also president of the Board of Directors for La Clinica de Familia. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Wildlife Biology and Management from New Mexico State University and has served as a Hunter Education Instructor for over 15 years in both New Mexico and Mexico.