Name: John J. Romero Jr.

Division VII

Location: Children's Court

TCAA: Daniel Sanchez-Saenz

Phone 505-841-7311

Biography: John J. Romero, Jr. serves in the Children's Court Division. The cases before him include delinquency matters, child welfare and adoptions. He presides over the Program for the Empowerment of Girls (PEG), an intensive multi-agency juvenile probation program for girls who have some type of violence in their history. He was born in Embudo, NM. Judge Romero completed undergraduate, graduate and law school work at UNM.

Judge Romero is Co-Chair of the Children's Court Improvement Commission. He was the first judge in the country to be recognized as a Certified Child Welfare Law Specialist by the ABA-accredited National Association of Counsel for Children. In 2014, Judge Romero received the New Mexico Voices for Children Alice King Public Service Award. He serves on the Board of Directors of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.