Board Members

IN MEMORY OF
Andres Romero
Andres Romero, former Board and Past President passed away August 7, 2023. He was the founder and the President of the Amigos del Rancho Los Luceros. He was a lifelong resident of New Mexico. He attended both grade school and high school in Santa Fe. He was a veteran; having served in the USAF for a period of 4 years. He was a career state employee with 26 plus years of working for state government in various capacities from highway construction to water resources to governmental administration. The last 4 year of this 26 year government career, he severed as Deputy Director for Intergovernmental Affairs and Special Project in the New Mexico Governor’s Office.
He has extensive experience and knowledge in mining development and marketing of fossil fuels, natural resources and low and high tech energy products in the private sector. He was also experienced in economic and small business development and advisory in both the private and governmental sector.
He succeeded in founding, organizing and/or serving on various non-profit boards, commissions and organizations. He served as the former Vice President and was one of the Founders of La Herencia de San Clemente. He was also recognized as a non-profit expert and serving as a consultant, having organized over 15 NGO over a period of years.

Andrew Salazar
Board Chair Emeritus
Andrew Salazar was born and raised in Chamita New Mexico. He is a former director of engineering at a major US Air Force installation and Mayor of a State of California City. He is also the former president of a not-for-profit State of California corporation and the President of the Herencia de San Clemente Corporation.”

Patricia A. Salazar
President
Patricia A. Salazar, current secretary of La Herencia de San Clemente, is a 36 year former federal employee in the Justice and Homeland Security Departments, Investigations and Management Divisions. She was a supervisor, national trouble shooter and trainer, program analyst, management analyst and Assistant District Director for Management, Denver District. She has been a business woman and now sole owner of Titan RV Storage, Inc. in Littleton, Colorado. In addition, she is a research expert on the Salazar Heritage.

J.D. Salazar
Secretary
Danny Salazar lived with his grandparents Jose Nicolas Salazar and Genoveva Garcia Salazar in Cebolla NM until the age of 5. He moved to Chamita with Jose and Genoveva where he attended the San Juan School for first and second grade. Danny moved with his grandmother to Santa Fe. There he attended Santa Fe High School. Danny graduated from the U of New Mexico (Engineering). He earned an MBA from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. Danny is currently head of acquisitions, and a managing partner of TH Logistics Fund I, a private equity real estate investment company. He’s marred to Carol Rediehs, has two daughters Britt and Kristin, and triplet grandsons George, Andrew, and Roland. Danny lives in suburban Chicago. He misses NM dearly and visits often.

Richard Salazar
Treasurer
I was born in Chamita to Richard M. and Lita Salazar. I grew up in Chamita, worked on my parents’ and grandparents’ farms, and went to church in San Juan. I have always known that the Capilla de San Pedro in Chamita, along with its traditions, are a very special part of our heritage.
I graduated from Espanola High School and attended NMSU, graduated with a BBA in Finance/Mgmt and was Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve just as the Vietnam War was ending. I earned my private pilot license at NMSU in the USAF-ROTC program. I resigned my Commission in 1991 at the rank of Captain.
I worked in the private sector in Finance/CFO roles for multi-million/multi-billion-dollar companies. I retired in September 2021 from Lucchese Boots (headquartered in El Paso) where I held the position of Vice President/CFO for six years. Prior experience included VP/CFO for Mount Franklin Foods (five years, El Paso), VP Finance/CFO Munitions – Day Zimmerman (13 years, Philadelphia, PA), and 20 years with UGI Corporation in Philadelphia, having held a number of positions including VP Finance/CFO AmeriGas Propane, Director Financial Planning UGI and Reporting, and CFO AmeriGas CO2 Division
I am enjoying retirement with my wife of 40 years, Janet. We have been blessed with three children, four grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Upon my dad’s passing in December 2020, I inherited my grandparents’ home and 14 acres of property directly adjacent to the Capilla in Chamita.
I look forward to continuing to preserve our Spanish heritage and to show the younger generation that our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so many generations before them, instilled in all of us the belief that we can do anything we put our minds to and that we can compete and excel at world class levels – all while staying connected to the people and places that made us who we are.

Miquel Donaldo Salazar
Board Member
I was born in Chamita, NM was delivered at home by Doctor Tobias Espinoza in 1948. I attended grade school at San Juan Public School and Espanola High School, received Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineer from New Mexico State (NM) University and Master’s in Business Admiration from the University of Phoenix I worked for NM Highway Department, Michael Baker Jr Consulting Engineers, and University of California at the Los Alamos National Laboratory LANL. Worked in Alaska on the construction of Trans Alaska pipeline as a chief surveyor and field engineer, in Houston on design of airfields and gas pipeline project. Work at LANL consisted on Decommissioned and Dismantlement of contaminated facilities (buildings, disposal sites, nuclear reactor).

David Salazar
Board Member
David Salazar is a Chamita community leader. David has served as a mayordomo for the San Pedro Chapel for 32 years. He is the current chairman of the chapel and cemetery volunteer caretaker (mayordomo) committee which is augmented by Phyllis Sanchez Trujillo, Lorena Salazar Garcia and William Segura.

J.D. Martinez Jr.
Board Member