Los Alamos County

Chris was elected in the November 2016 general election. She served a term on the Council from 1997 through 2000, during which she was Council Chair and Vice Chair.

Chris moved to Los Alamos in 1993, after which she quickly became active in community affairs. She was a founding member of the boards of Leadership Los Alamos and the Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation. In addition, Chris served on two Charter Review Committees (1995 and 2010), the Planning & Zoning Commission, and was Co-Chair of the County's 60th Anniversary Committee. She is a past President of the Los Alamos League of Women Voters and continues to be an active member. Chris is currently on the boards of the First Born Program of Los Alamos and The Delle Foundation.

Chris is a practicing attorney. After a career as an in-house litigation lawyer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the last 10 years of which she was the Litigation group leader, she entered private practice as a partner in Chandler Law of Los Alamos. Chris graduated from Smith College and has a J.D. degree from Boston College, cum laude, and an L.L.M. degree in International and Comparative Law, with distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center.

Chris' priorities include supporting planning efforts that preserve neighborhoods, with the aim of fostering a sense of community, and revitalizing the Los Alamos town site and the White Rock village. Chris values the natural amenities of Los Alamos and recognizes that those amenities, and its active and engaged people, make Los Alamos the special place that it is.

Antonio was elected to the County Council in the November 2016 general election.
Antonio Maggiore was born and raised in Los Alamos, NM and is a graduate of Los Alamos High School. He attended college at Northern Arizona University and Evergreen State College before returning to Los Alamos, and starting landscaping business Ecolutions, LLC in 2007. Ecolutions LLC specializes in permaculture-based landscape design, rainwater management, and lush xeric landscapes. As a small business owner and community volunteer, Antonio is recently known for his “guerrilla” garden, providing vegetables to the neighborhood and passersby, local landscapes such as at the Bathtub Row brewing company, and tending of the county’s newest Little Free Library. Antonio is a passionate supporter of broad access to public transportation and affordable housing, maintaining open and green spaces, and creating a vibrant and diverse community. He lives in a historical Lustron house in Los Alamos with his four cats.


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Pete Sheehey was re-elected to the Council for a second term in the November 2016 general election.  Pete Sheehey has lived and worked in Los Alamos since 1986. Pete comes from a California working class family that placed great importance on getting a good education. He earned a scholarship to go to college at UC Santa Cruz, served as a computer technician in the US Air Force from 1976 to 1979, worked as a field engineer, and then went back to school to become a scientist. After finishing a PhD in Physics at UCLA, he worked as a computational physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory on controlled fusion nuclear energy and nuclear weapons safety and reliability. He retired in April 2012 from the Lab. His interests include renewable energy, preservation of the environment, and music. He is an avid runner, hiker, and a long-time member of the Los Alamos Mountaineers Club (lamountaineers.org).

Pete has been active in political and community affairs. He has worked since the 1990's with the Los Alamos Committee on Arms Control and International Security (www.lacacis.org), a bi-partisan group that studies arms control and advocates for sound treaties and policies that increase our national security. He served on the Los Alamos County Planning and Zoning Commission from 2008 to 2012, also serving for several years on the P&Z Board of Adjustment. At the 2012 Redistricting Special Session of the New Mexico Legislature, Pete worked successfully with Los Alamos County Councilors, State Representatives, and others to keep Los Alamos County in a single legislative district. He has also advocated for other issues at the New Mexico Roundhouse and the US Congress.

The main effort of his campaign for County Council in 2012 was to knock on thousands of people’s doors in Los Alamos and White Rock, introduce himself, and ask what are their concerns about their county government. They told him they are concerned about aggressive spending being done by the county, when the Lab's budget, the main source of the county's income, is being cut. At the same time, they want us to go ahead with needed investments in education, infrastructure, and economic development: things that will help make this town more inviting to everyone, from students and single people, to families with children, to retirees. Having played all of those roles in his time here, Pete aims to help find a balance between these concerns. People are in pretty good agreement on priorities: public safety, infrastructure, education, and economic development, followed by improving our recreational amenities. Pete is focused on communication to build consensus, prioritization, fiscal responsibility, and sustainability. If we focus on these things, we will be able to afford all of the important things for our community, even in challenging times.