Teresa Leger Fernandez

Democrat · NM-3 · U.S. House

Bio

Teresa Isabel Leger Fernández is an American attorney and politician representing New Mexico's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2021.

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Record of service

In office: 5.6 years
First took office: 2021 (3 terms)
Seniority: 266 of 437 by time served
Age: 67

District offices

Gallup, NM · 505-551-4696
Santa Fe, NM · 505-428-4680
Las Vegas, NM · 505-570-7558
Clovis, NM · 505-428-4680

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2021

$2.1M

2022

$923k

2023

$1.2M

2024

$1.5M

2025

$1.2M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $1.1M – $2.5M
Liabilities: $375k – $815k
Net worth: $297k – $2.2M
Since 2021: −$842k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 15 assets reported

Charles Schwabb IRA ⇒ Baird Aggregate Bond Fund Institutional Class (BAGIX)$250k – $500k

Charles Schwabb IRA ⇒ Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$250k – $500k

Estate Fund, which is a broadly diversified publicly traded closed-end fund Charles Schwab$100k – $250k

Charles Schwabb IRA ⇒ PIMCO Income Fund Insti Class (PIMIX)$100k – $250k

Charles Schwabb IRA ⇒ Washington Mutual Investors Fund - Class F-3 (FWMIX)$100k – $250k

Charles Schwabb IRA ⇒ WCM Focused International Growth Fund Insti Cl (WCMIX)$100k – $250k

Charles Schwabb IRA ⇒ Baillie Gifford Emerging Market Fund- Institutional Class (BGEGX)$50k – $100k

Charles Schwabb IRA ⇒ Flat Rock Opportunity Fund (FROPX)$50k – $100k

Charles Schwabb IRA ⇒ Vanguard Mid-Cap ETF (VO)$50k – $100k

Charles Schwabb IRA ⇒ Charles Schwab Bank$15k – $50k

Charles Schwabb IRA ⇒ Lazard Global Listed Infrastructure Ptf Insti Shs (GLIFX)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwabb IRA ⇒ Schwab Prime Advantage Money Fund- Investor Shares (SWVXX)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwabb IRA ⇒ Westwood Salient MLP & Energy Infrastructure Fund - Institutional (S$15k – $50k

Charles Schwabb IRA ⇒ Bluerock Private Real Estate Fund Common Shares of Beneficial Intere$1k – $15k

Charles Schwabb IRA ⇒ Charles Schwab (Cash)$1k – $15k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.41

Healthcare

D+0.90

Immigration & Border

D+0.89

Guns

D+0.85

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.88

Crime & Policing

D+0.57

Defense & Veterans

R+0.01

Economy & Labor

D+0.51

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.04

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.91

Education

D+0.80

Government & Democracy

D+0.81

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Teresa Leger Fernandez's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

91%Closest

Green Party

87%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

84%

Communist Party USA

84%

Libertarian Party

51%

Republican Party

33%

On the political map

Teresa Leger Fernandez (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Fernandezsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Committees

House Committee on Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
Federal Lands Indian and Insular Affairs (Ranking Member)
House Committee on Rulesright · 13 members
Legislative and Budget Process (Ranking Member)

Most and least aligned members

Treating Fernandez's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.