Diana Amsden, Maurice McDonald, and Sidney Light were listed as the original directors.

[5] On July 22, the party held its first state convention where seven people were selected to serve on its executive committee and a political platform was approved.

[14][15] In January 2018, Aubrey Dunn Jr., the New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands, announced that he had switched his party affiliation from Republican to Libertarian.

Dunn was the first statewide official in the United States to be a member of the Libertarian Party.

However, both filed after the deadline forcing them to run as write-in candidates to appear on the general election ballot.