Judge Kristopher Houghton of the State Court of Appeals will speak at the Sept. 17 Rotary Club meeting.
The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in the ITC Commons area at Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell.
Before becoming a state-court judge in 2025, Judge Houghton served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the District of New Mexico.
He previously served as chief of the Criminal Division from July 2022 to May 2025.
Houghton also led the Office of the Judicial Attachee, managing the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section for the U.S. Department of Justice in Bogotá, Colombia, where he managed the busiest extradition practice in the world.
A graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Law, Houghton was admitted to the State Bar in 2008. Before his federal service, he served as a judicial law clerk for the New Mexico Supreme Court and the New Mexico Court of Appeals.
