Jackie Lindsey, who headed the state’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management for less than a year, resigned Tuesday — just a day after Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Attorney General Hector Balderas, members of the state’s congressional delegation and House Speaker Brian Egolf met with her on efforts to combat potential domestic terrorism in New Mexico.

Lindsey is the third Cabinet secretary to leave her position since Lujan Grisham took office.

“After careful consideration, I have decided to resign as the Cabinet secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management to focus on my family and my health,” Lindsey said in her statement to Lujan Grisham.



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