New Mexico State Game Commissioners
Richard Stump
Chair
Appointed at-large
Attention: Richard Stump
1 Wildlife Way,
Santa Fe, NM 87507
Richard Stump is a multi-generational native New Mexican who is passionate about hunting, fishing, and the outdoors. In full support of the hunting way of life, a connection to ranching and recognition of the needs to balance the interests of a wide variety of land users, Richard Stump recognizes the important role the Game Commission has in the future of wildlife conservation. As an avid hunter and angler, he is well versed in hunting laws and regulations. He is a professional contemporary western silver and gold jeweler who draws his inspiration from wildlife and western culture. He has raised, trained, and sold performance horses and whose family has long historical ties in New Mexico to sheep and cattle ranching.
Sharon Salazar Hickey
Vice-Chair
District 4: Santa Fe, Taos, Colfax, Union, Mora, Harding, Quay, San Miguel, Guadalupe and Torrance counties
Attention: Sharon Salazar Hickey
1 Wildlife Way,
Santa Fe, NM 87507
Sharon Salazar Hickey is a native New Mexican with ancestral roots dating back centuries. As a member of the NM State Bar Association, she brings legal expertise to the Commission’s rule making process, litigation, and other transactional matters. She provides executive level and management skills to oversee the NM Department of Game & Fish based on her service as a Staff Attorney, Group Leader and Program Manager at Los Alamos National Laboratory and her Quality NM examiner certification. Sharon has extensive leadership experience and dedicated community service (former Chair of the NM State Game Commission, former NM Youth Corporation Commissioner, former Chair of the St Vincent Hospital Foundation Board) and was honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award from Wilson College. Sharon enjoys travel and adventure and is an avid outdoor sports enthusiast.
Gregg Fulfer
District 1: Curry, De Baca, Roosevelt, Chaves, Lincoln, Otero, Eddy and Lea counties
Attention: Gregg Fulfer
1 Wildlife Way,
Santa Fe, NM 87507
Gregg.Fulfer@dgf.nm.gov
Gregg Fulfer resides in southeast New Mexico in Jal. Gregg Fulfer served as a State Senator from 2018 to 2021. He also served as Lea County Commissioner for nearly 10 years with over six of those years as chairman. He has served on the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board and the New Mexico Economic Development Board. Greg holds a degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University where he has also received recognition as “Distinguished Alumnus.” He owns and operates several companies including Fulfer Oil and Cattle Company. With a passion for hunting and fishing, he enjoys time in the outdoors and celebrates the hunting and ranching way of life.
Dr. Sabrina Pack
District 2: Catron, Socorro, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Sierra and Dona Ana counties
Attention: Dr. Sabrina Pack
1 Wildlife Way,
Santa Fe, NM 87507
Dr. Sabrina Pack is a lifelong resident of Grant County, with ties to ranching in the area, and has a passion for the outdoors and wildlife. She holds a Doctor of Business Administration with a specialty in Management. She is an executive board member of the New Mexico Broadcasters Association, board member of the Silver City Grant County Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Grant County Prospectors, and serves on the Southern New Mexico Advisory Council (RAC). She is a marketing professional, serves as the Chief Operating Officer of SkyWest Media, and is an associate professor at WNMU.
Tirzio Lopez
District 3: San Juan, McKinley, Cibola, Valencia, Sandoval, Los Alamos and Rio Arriba counties;
Attention: Tirzio Lopez
1 Wildlife Way,
Santa Fe, NM 87507
Tirzio Lopez currently works for the United States Government as a security professional. Lopez previously worked as a park ranger for New Mexico State Parks, the National Park Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the State of New Mexico. He was a member of the Chama Valley Independent School District School Board until 2019. He is active in the organized labor movement, where he has served as President of the Northern New Mexico Central Labor Council; as an executive officer for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; and he currently sits on the Executive Board of the University Professional and Technical Employees Local 1663. Lopez earned two degrees in criminal justice from New Mexico State University. Lopez runs a small farm and enjoys hunting and fishing throughout the State of New Mexico and was raised to be a steward for the land and its wildlife – as Aldo Leopold did.
Fernando Clemente Jr.
Appointed at-large
Attention: Fernando Clemente Jr.
1 Wildlife Way,
Santa Fe, NM 87507
Fernando Clemente Jr. is a wildlife biologist with over 20 years of expertise and experience across multiple branches of natural resource management. He has owned and operated New Mexico Specialized Wildlife Services since 2012, served as a professor at La Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua since 2021, and has served as president of the Sunland Park Chamber of Commerce since 2019. He is also president of the Board of Directors for La Clinica de Familia. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Wildlife Biology and Management from New Mexico State University and has served as a Hunter Education Instructor for over 15 years in both New Mexico and Mexico.