MARILYN C. O’LEARY

Albuquerque, New Mexico 87120

Curriculum Vitae

Education

J.D., University of New Mexico School of Law
M.A., University of New Mexico
B.A., St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana
C.P.C.C., Coaches Training Institute, San Rafael, CA
A.C.C., International Coaching Federation

Professional Experience

Co-active professional coach, 2010 – present

Research Professor, Utton Transboundary Resources Center,
University of New Mexico School of Law, 2014 – 2015

Acting Director, Utton Transboundary Resources Center,
University of New Mexico School of Law, 2013 – 2014

Director, Utton Transboundary Resources Center,
University of New Mexico School of Law, 2001- 2007

Professional Coach, 2011 – present

Private Law Practice, Albuquerque, NM, 1988 – 2003
Concentrating in water law and regulated public utilities

New Mexico Public Utility Commission 1982 – 1987
Chairperson; Commissioner; Executive Director; Assistant Commission Counsel 

Selected Publications

Books

How to Be a Widow, Mercury Heartlink Press, 2019, FINALIST, New Mexico – Arizona Book Awards

No One To Wake, Mercury Heartlink Press, 2015

In Sickness and In Health, with James O’Leary, Outskirts Press, 2013

Keep Choosing, with Sylvia Gaffney and Jeanine Catalano, Outskirts Press, 2009

Model Interstate Water Compact, with Jerome C. Muys, George W. Sherk, UNM Press, 2007

Public Utility Regulation: The Social Control of Industry, Ch. VIII, David B. Smith, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989

Pueblo Indian Water Rights, with C. DuMars and A. Utton, University of Arizona Press, 1981

Law Review Articles

Water Planning in New Mexico: Enigma, Paradox, or Pattern? Journal of Land, Resources, & Environmental Law, 2004

The Bellagio Draft Treaty as a Tool for Solving Border Groundwater Issues, United States-Mexico Law Journal, 2003

Civic and Professional Involvement (Completed)

US – Mexico Border Governors Conference, Water Table Member
Commissioner, New Mexico-Chihuahua Border Commission
Utton Center/UNM Representative to the Universities Partnership for Transboundary
Waters
American, New Mexico and Albuquerque Bar Associations
Committee on Women and the Profession, State Bar of New Mexico
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, Board of Trustees
Equal Access to Justice Campaign, Co-Chair
Trust for Public Lands, New Mexico Advisory Board