Alletta Belin: Contract Attorney

Letty serves as a contract attorney to Advocates for the West, running our Santa Fe satellite office and directing our Middle Rio Grande work in New Mexico. One of New Mexico’s most respected water and environmental lawyers, Letty is a 1977 graduate of Stanford Law School. She served as Assistant Attorney General for New Mexico from 1993-98; and previously worked in private practice and with public interest groups in California and New Mexico. Since 1999, Letty has been a partner with Belin & Sugarman, a Santa Fe law firm that specializes in public interest environmental law; and has served as co-counsel with Laird Lucas in the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow v. Keys litigation over water management in the Middle Rio Grande.