Maureen Sanders landed in New Mexico as an Army Brat while in high school.  After graduating from St. Pius here in Albuquerque, she returned to the Midwest.  After getting her undergraduate degree in mathematics and a masters degree in guidance and counseling, she came to her senses and returned to New Mexico.  Her first career was as a teacher in various high schools and a community college.  She became frustrated with the public education systems and decided to go to law school at the University of New Mexico.  As a practicing lawyer she was a law clerk for Judge Edwin L. Mechem, an insurance defense lawyer, General Counsel for the State Corporation Commission, and Director of the Civil Division of the NM Attorney General’s Office.  She then became a Professor at UNM Law School for ten years.  While at the law school, she began working on the NARAL/Right To Choose case.  Since establishing the firm of Sanders & Westbrook, PC, she has been involved in many constitutional battles seeking to protect the rights of all individuals.  She serves on the volunteer legal panel for ACLU-NM and last year had the honor of successfully arguing the marriage equality case before the New Mexico Supreme Court.