About Katy Duhigg

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Katy Duhigg serves as State Senator for District 10. She was first elected to the New Mexico Senate in 2020 and re-elected in 2024. She serves as Chair of the Senate Rules Committee and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. 

In the NM Legislature, Katy has been a leader on consumer protection issues, voting rights, and healthcare oversight. She passed critical legislation that made New Mexico the first state in the nation to expand public financing for district court judicial candidates to take big money out of judicial campaigns. In addition, she led efforts to reform CYFD, create oversight of health care entity mergers and acquisitions, end predatory lending, reform temporary guardianships and conservatorships to prevent abuse and neglect, and close loopholes that prevented workers from being paid a fair wage. Her Patients’ Debt Collection Protection Act, to protect lower-income patients, passed in 2021, protects indigent New Mexicans from crippling medical debt.

Katy is an attorney practicing in Albuquerque. Since graduating from law school in 2008, she has dedicated her career to helping New Mexico families deal with life-changing events, and she prides herself on fighting for the little guy. She has become respected across New Mexico for her election law expertise. In August 2018, Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller appointed Katy as Albuquerque City Clerk, where she oversaw the City’s 2019 local election. During her tenure, she revamped the City’s Election Code and passed public financing reforms. Katy’s efforts also included reforming the City’s Code of Ethics to take politics out of appointments to the Board of Ethics, set clear guidelines regarding campaign ethics, and increase disclosure requirements for election officials. After stepping down as City Clerk in order to run for the State Senate, Katy returned to practicing law, representing New Mexicans who have been killed or permanently harmed due to the wrongful conduct of another.

Katy is a member of the Board of Directors of Carrie Tingley Hospital Foundation, and the former vice president of Common Cause New Mexico. She was also a member of the Bernalillo County Code of Conduct Review Board and the Bernalillo County Valuation Protest Board. Katy has also served as a governance council member and executive board secretary with the RFK Charter School. Katy was recognized by Common Cause New Mexico in 2018 with a “Special Board Recognition Award” for her work on fair elections at its Best in Government Awards Annual Luncheon.

New Mexico Senate District 10 encompasses Albuquerque's and Los Ranchos de Albuquerque's North Valley, from the Sandoval County line to just south of Central along Tingley Drive. The district contains a portion of Albuquerque's Westside in the Paseo del Norte/Eagle Ranch/Paradise Blvd NW corridor.

Contact Katy with official state business at:

(505) 986-4270

This phone only answered while Legislature is in session.

State Capitol: Room 320

325 Don Gaspar

Santa Fe, NM 87501

Katy.Duhigg@nmlegis.gov