The New Mexico Environment Department’s deputy cabinet secretary, Jennifer Pruett, is retiring in May after a 37-year career that included 20 years with the state agency.
The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) said in a Monday press release it is actively working to fill the post by April. The deputy secretary is appointed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) and reports directly to NMED Cabinet Secretary James Kenney.
More information on the job can be found here.
Pruett has been in her current post for more than two years, NMED said. After graduating law school in 1984, she joined NMED as an assistant general counsel. Pruett worked in private legal practice between 1990 and 2006 before rejoining NMED and serving in posts concerning groundwater quality and petroleum storage tanks.
“I am so grateful to Deputy Pruett for her many years of service to the Department as well as the environment and the people of New Mexico,” Kenney said in the press release.
The New Mexico Environment Department recently filed a legal complaint in state court, accusing the Department of Energy of not living up to a 2016 consent order over cleanup of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and asking the court to supervise negotiations toward a replacement agreement.
