INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM October 12, 2023
TO: Pat Davis, President, City Council
FROM: Timothy M. Keller, Mayor
SUBJECT: title
Mayor's appointment of Mr. James F. Pontzer to the Library Advisory Board
body
I am submitting for your advice and consent the following name for appointment to the Library
Advisory Board in accordance with the City of Albuquerque Ordinance 10-6-1.
APPOINTEE NAME TERM
Mr. James F. Pontzer July 31, 2026
Albuquerque, NM 87120
Mr. Pontzer moved to Albuquerque from northern Virginia in 1995. He worked at Intuit in Rio Rancho before getting a job as a software developer at the New Mexico Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. Specifically, Mr. Pontzer works within the VA's Office of Research and Development Cooperative Studies Program as the Chief of Informatics.
Mr. Pontzer worked for the University of New Mexico for approximately one and a half years (2016 - 2017) as the Senior Program Manager for Biomedical Informatics within the university's Clinical and Translational Science Center.
Mr. Pontzer is an adjunct professor of Pharmaceutical Ethics at UNM. He received his Masters in Bioethics in 2013 from the Medical College of Wisconsin, after having completed the Joan Gibson Healthcare Ethics certificate program at UNM. He served on the UNM Human Research Review Committee from 2008 until 2016.
A resident of Council District 7, Mr. Pontzer will serve as the District 7 representative; his first term will expire on July 31, 2026.
Current Membership
Representing Name Term
1.
Council District 1
Vacant
2.
Council District 2
Ms. Julie Henss
07/31/2023
3.
Council District 3
Vacant
4.
Council District 4
Vacant
5.
Council District 5
Vacant
6.
Council District 6
Vacant
7.
Council District 7
Vacant
8.
Council District 8
Mrs. Madelynne A. Johnson
07/31/2023
9.
10.
Council District 9
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