Public Education Commission District 3

Jacob Trujillo was appointed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in June 2026 to the Public Education Commission's District 3 seat, becoming, at 26, the youngest person to serve on the commission, per the New Mexico Public Education Department. He is a graduate of the Albuquerque Institute of Math and Science, a New Mexico charter school for grades six through twelve, and works as a field representative for U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury, per the Santa Fe New Mexican. No campaign website or questionnaire response was found as of September 20, 2026.

Dennis Dinge is a physicist whose career has spanned industry, national laboratories, and academia, with research experience in supercomputing, astronomy, and computational fluid dynamics, per his campaign site. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Physics from Clemson University and a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and serves as Secretary of the New Mexico Forward Party, per the same source.