David Herrera Urías

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) voted Friday to confirm David Herrera Urías to serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico.

Senators Heinrich and Luján recommended Urías to the Biden administration for the vacancy.

“Over the course of his legal career, David Herrera Urías has built an impressive reputation successfully litigating cases before state and federal courts, served as a role model for countless junior attorneys, and provided pro bono representation for the most vulnerable in our communities,” Heinrich and Luján said. “A University of New Mexico alum and an active member in New Mexico’s legal community, Mr. Urías will continue a proud legacy of compassionate and committed federal judges in New Mexico.”

About David Herrera Urías

Urías has been an attorney since 2008 at Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg Urias & Ward, P.A. in Albuquerque. From 2004 to 2008 Urías was a staff attorney at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund in San Antonio, Texas. He was an associate at Fried, Frank, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP, 2002 to 2004, in New York City. Urías served 2001 to 2002 as a law clerk for Judge Vanessa Ruiz on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. In 1997 his received his B.A. from the University of New Mexico and in 2001 his J.D., cum laude from the University of New Mexico School of Law.