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Rod Adair

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On June 4, 2002, State Senator Rod Adair was nominated as John Sanchez's lieutenant governor running mate.

Rod is originally from Hagerman, New Mexico, graduating from high school there in 1971. He retired from the US Army in February 1996, after 20 years of service, the last twelve of which were as a Foreign Area Officer for Latin America. His last assignment as a Regular Army officer was as an ROTC instructor at New Mexico Military Institute.

His undergraduate degree is in Political Science and he holds a Master’s Degree in Government. Areas of concentration during his Master’s studies included American Politics as well as Iberian and Latin American studies.

Commissioned as an infantry officer, he is a graduate of the Infantry Officers’ Basic and Advanced Courses, Airborne School, the Combined Arms and Services Staff School, Command and General Staff College, the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School (where he was an honor graduate of the Foreign Area Officer’s Course in 1984) and the Defense Language Institute where he studied Spanish in 1985-86. He also earned language proficiency ratings in both Italian and Portuguese.

Rod is now a demographer, having started his own business, New Mexico Demographic Research, in 1996. He and his wife Dana (originally of Alamogordo) have been married for 26 years. Dana is a teacher of special education at Military Heights Elementary School in Roswell. They have two
children, Lauren, 13, an 8th-grader at Gateway Christian School and Ian, 11, who is in the fifth grade at Military Heights Elementary School. They are members of Gateway Church International in Roswell.

Elected to the New Mexico State Senate in 1996, Rod represents more than 60% of Roswell, including almost all of north Roswell as well as most of the western parts of the city. He also represents the south half of Artesia, as well as the village of Loco Hills. He is serving in his second four-year term.

When elected this fall, John Sanchez and Rod Adair will work together to lower taxes, improve schools, and create jobs, so that every New Mexican has the chance to live the American dream.