Sarah M. Davenport was confirmed to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico on December 5, 2024. She was previously an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico, a role she had had since 2009. Prior to that, she worked as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in Las Cruces from 2008 to 2009. Davenport received her J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 2006 and her B.Mus. from New Mexico State University in 1998.