James Beliven Lewis (born November 30, 1947) is an American politician from the state of New Mexico.

[2] Lewis was born in Roswell, New Mexico, the son of Dorris Ward and William Reagor.

[4] Lewis served in the United States Army for two years as a military policeman during the Vietnam Era.

[5] After Bruce King's defeat in the election of 1994, Lewis served four months as acting director of the Oil, Gas, and Minerals Division of the New Mexico Land Office.

In 1996, Lewis was appointed city administrator of Rio Rancho and later that year was appointed as head of the Office of Economic Development and Diversity at the United States Department of Energy by president Bill Clinton.

[9] In 2014, Lewis was elected president of the National Association of Auditors, Comptrollers and State Treasurers.