Judge Amanda Sanchez Villalobos: Professional Background and Legal Expertise

The Hon. Amanda Sanchez Villalobos is a judge for the 13th Judicial District Court of New Mexico. She was appointed to the bench by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham on May 17, 2019.

The 13th Judicial District encompasses Cibola County, Sandoval County, and Valencia County. Villalobos sits as the sole judge in Cibola County, where she hears criminal, civil, abuse and neglect, and domestic relations cases. She also presides over lower court appeals.

Prior to her appointment, Villalobos was an associate staff attorney with the New Mexico Court of Appeals, a position to which she was named in 2012. Before that, she spent time as an assistant district attorney with the 13th Judicial District Attorney’s Office as well as a business litigation attorney with the Rodney Law Firm.

Villalobos earned a bachelor’s degree in criminology and political science from the University of New Mexico in 2002. She then completed a J.D. at the University of New Mexico School of Law in 2005. She was admitted to the State Bar of New Mexico the same year.

Her memberships have included the New Mexico Hispanic Bar Association.

Villalobos was born and raised in Grants, New Mexico. She continues to reside in Cibola County alongside her husband, Victor, and her four step-children.

She is registered as a Democrat.