Our Leadership

Katrina Hotrum-Lopez previously served as the director of behavioral health services at Bernalillo County from 2016 to 2019. Prior to that, she was director of the county’s substance abuse programs. From 2007 to 2010, Hotrum-Lopez was deputy Cabinet secretary of the state Department of Health, one of several roles she held there. Before working at the health department, Hotrum-Lopez worked for six years in the agency she will now lead, first as associate state ombudsman, then as state ombudsman and finally as director of the elder rights division. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Alaska at Fairbanks and a master’s degree in family studies from the University of New Mexico.