Hon. Felicia R. Blea-Rivera is a judge for the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court in New Mexico. She was appointed to the bench by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham in 2019.
Prior to her appointment, Blea-Rivera worked as litigation counsel for the New Mexico Association of Counties (2018 to 2019). Before that, she was a staff attorney in the Legal Bureau of the National Nuclear Security Administration (2017 to 2018); a senior assistant county attorney with the Bernalillo County Attorney’s Office (2013 to 2017); an attorney at Gilchrist & Rivera, P.C. (2009 to 2012); and an assistant district attorney with the Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Office (2006 to 2009).
Blea-Rivera received a B.S. in economics from the University of New Mexico in 1999. She went on to complete a J.D. at the University of New Mexico School of Law in 2005. She was admitted to practice in New Mexico in 2006.
She is registered as a Democrat.