William
Perry Pendley, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Mountain States
Legal Foundation, will be the keynote speaker at the 2014 Joint Stockmen’s Convention
Family Luncheon, sponsored by Farm Credit of New Mexico, on Friday, December 5.
“Mountain
States Legal Foundation is one of the biggest champions that we in agriculture
– as individuals, as landowners and as family enterprises - have,” said Jose
Varela Lopez, New Mexico Cattle Growers Association (NMCGA) President, La
Cieneguilla. “We are looking forward to
Mr. Pendley’s insights.”
The
Mountain States Legal Foundation is a grassroots organization that provides
legal representation to individuals, local governments and small businesses to
protect constitutional freedoms, individual liberty and property rights.
Pendley,
a native of Wyoming, received B.A. and M.A.
degrees in Economics and Political Science from George
Washington University
in Washington, D.C. He was a Captain in the United States
Marine Corps, after which he received his J.D. from the University of Wyoming
College of Law. He served as an attorney
to former Senator Clifford P. Hansen (R-Wyoming) and to the House Interior and
Insular Affairs Committee. During the Reagan Administration, he served as
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy and Minerals of the Department of
Interior, where he authored President Reagan's National Minerals Policy and
Exclusive Economic Zone proclamation. He was a consultant to former Secretary
of the Navy John F. Lehman, Jr., and was engaged in the private practice of law
in the Washington, D.C., area before his return to the West in
1989.
He has
argued cases before the Supreme Court of the United States as well as various
federal courts of appeals; he won what Time called a "legal
earthquake" when the Supreme Court ruled in his favor in the historic
Adarand (equal protection) case. His monthly column, Summary Judgment, appears
throughout the country; he is the author of four books: It Takes A Hero
(1994); War on the West (1995); Warriors for the West (2006); and
Sagebrush Rebel (2013).
The annual Joint Stockmen’s Convention, set for December 4-7
at the Albuquerque Marriott Pyramid North, brings together members of the New
Mexico Cattle Growers Association (NMCGA), the New Mexico Wool Growers, Inc.
(NMWGI), Dairy Producers of New Mexico (DPNM), the New Mexico CowBelles (NMCB)
and the New Mexico Federal Lands Council (NMFLC). For more information, contact the NMCGA at
(505) 247-0584 or visit www.nmagriculture.org.
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