The Hon. Diana A. Bustamante (Ret.) served as a judge for the Doña Ana County Probate Court in New Mexico. She was elected to the bench in 2014 and re-elected in 2018.
Prior to her election, Bustamante was the Executive Director for the Doña Ana County Colonias Development Council, a position to which she was named in 1997. She also spent time as an assistant professor of sociology at New Mexico State University.
Bustamante earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from the University of Arizona, Tempe. She then completed a Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. Bustamante is also licensed as an insurance agent in the State of New Mexico.
She is registered as a Democrat.