In this episode, we spotlight the New Mexico Judicial Wellness Program, an initiative dedicated to supporting the overall well-being of New Mexico's judges. Created to promote mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health within the judiciary. The program recognizes that judges face unique pressures and challenges that can impact both their professional and personal lives.
Episode Notes
Speakers: Honorable Judge Mateo Page has been an administrative law judge since May 2025. Before that, he spent about ten years as a prosecutor in New Mexico’s 2nd, 7th, and 12th Judicial Districts, along with five years as a Magistrate Judge in Torrance County and another five as a judicial administrator. He’s also actively involved in promoting wellness in the legal profession through his service on the State Bar’s Well-Being Committee and the judicial wellness subcommittee.
Judge Sandra Engel (J.D., PCC) retired from the bench in September of 2022. She served as a Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court Judge for over 16 years and still sits as a pro-tem/senior judge. She received her B.S. in Marketing from the University of Alabama and received her J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1993. She presided over a large misdemeanor criminal docket. In addition to the duties of her regular criminal docket, she also had been heavily involved in specialty courts. She created, implemented, and presided over the Community Veterans Court; a specialty treatment court designed to help effectuate treatment for Veterans coming through Metropolitan Court. She created and implemented the Courts to School Program where Defendants are sentenced in front of high school and college students with the purpose of educating and deterring the students from drinking and driving. She also served as Presiding Judge of the Domestic Violence Early Intervention Program (EIP). She served for many years as an appointed member of the Code of Judicial Conduct Committee, Tribal- State Judicial Consortium Committee, Advisory Board of the Code of Judicial Conduct Committee and as a committee member on the Supreme Court Ad Hoc Pretrial Release Committee. She served as Chief Judge over the Metropolitan Court as well as Presiding Judge over the criminal division of Metropolitan Court. She now serves as the program manager for the New Mexico State Bar’s Judicial Wellness Program and serves as an executive leadership coach for judges and attorneys.
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