At the Center for Civic Values, we encourage public engagement with the law by providing accessible education and services, ensuring support for all students regardless of income, sexual orientation, background, location, or any other individual circumstances.
Since 1978, CCV has been the administrator and host of the Gene Franchini High School Mock Trial program. In 2022 CCV added a Middle School Mock Trial program. CCV was founded originally in 1962 as the New Mexico Bar Foundation and is organized as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable and educational corporation. Our offices are in Albuquerque, New Mexico; we have program activities throughout the state; and, our educational materials are used in classrooms and mock trial programs across the country.
100% of CCV’s board members have donated money to the organization.
Board of Directors and Staff
Jack
Sullivan, Esq.
Chair
New Mexico State Land Office
Heather
Jaramillo
Immediate Past Chair
University of New Mexico
jessie
lundschen
Paralegal
Raquel
Medina
Albuquerque Public Schools
Shaharazad
Booth, ESQ.
Vice Chair
Attorney At Law
Lynda
Latta, esq.
Attorney At Law
David
Overstreet, ESQ.
Attorney At Law
Kristen
Leeds
Executive Director
M. Karen
Kilgore, ESQ.
Finance Chair
Attorney At Law
Mark
Standridge, ESQ.
Attorney At Law
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