Jacob Rodney Candelaria (born 1987)[1] is an American politician and attorney who served as a member of the New Mexico Senate for the 26th district from 2013 to 2022.
from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in 2009 after completing a 102-page long senior thesis, titled "Contemporary Venezuelan Oil Policy: An Institutional Analysis", under the supervision of Stanley Katz.
[12] Three days later, Steve D. Gallegos, a former Albuquerque City Councilman and Bernalillo County Commissioner, dropped his bid for the seat and endorsed Candelaria.
[13] The Democratic primary election held on June 5, 2012, was therefore a two-way fight between Candelaria and opponent Carlos Jose Villanueva.
The law appropriates savings that result from lower interest rates on a utility's securitized bonds into three state administered funds for economic development, worker re training, and environmental remediation in communities effected by the closure of the San Juan Generating Station.
In his retirement letter to Maggie Toulouse Oliver, the New Mexico Secretary of State, Candelaria said that he could no longer balance the demands of his private law practice, and a desire to start a family with his husband, with volunteer service in the Senate.
Members receive a per-diem for days they are in session or attending legislative interim committee meetings, but are not paid a salary or other benefits.
[20] Candelaria married his husband, a resident physician at the University of New Mexico Hospital specializing in infectious diseases, in May 2019 at a ceremony in Santa Fe officiated by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham.