Dennis was elected as Chair in the Fall of 2021, re-elected in 2023, and will serve until the Spring of 2025, He was born in Tucumcari, New Mexico and raised in the southern towns of Alamogordo and Silver City, New Mexico. He comes from a long line of ranchers, farmers, and contractors scattered throughout the “Land of Enchantment.”

He obtained his law degree in 1977 from the University of New Mexico School of Law and was admitted to practice that same year. He began his legal career at a small local firm before setting up his own private practice. Dennis worked in conjunction with The Spence Law Firm for nearly 30 years, partnering with the firm on some of the largest personal injury lawsuits in the history of New Mexico jurisprudence before becoming a partner in The Spence Law Firm NM, LLC founded by the famed trial lawyer, Gerry Spence.

A resident of Estancia, he is also active in the Albuquerque East Mountain community with a particular interest in youth-oriented activities, including coaching baseball and softball teams and supporting local FFA and 4-H programs.

His wife, Marcie, is a registered nurse with extensive orthopedic surgery experience. They have two grown children and have four grandchildren and many grand-nieces and nephews.

Elected as Vice Chair in October of 2023 to fill a vacancy at the Vice Chair position, Bill's political background goes back to 1968, when he was a staff member on Bobby Kennedy's all-too-short presidential campaign in Pennsylvania. A Vietnam-Era Veteran of the U.S. Army, Bill is a retired Computer Consultant with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Delaware Valley University and graduate-level Political Science courses from the University of New Mexico.

In Bernalillo County Bill served as a Ward Chair, County Rules Committee Chair, DPBC Database Administrator, Webmaster and County Chair. He was the incumbent County Chair in 2018, when Democrats "flipped" seven of the nine NM House District seats that had been held by Republicans for decades, along with the previously "very red" County Commission seat for the district that includes the East Mountains.

Bill was also active in the Democratic Party at the state level, where he served on the Rules Committee for 14 years, with two 2-year terms as that committee's Vice Chair and one term as Rules Committee Chairman.

Millie and her husband Bill (see " Vice Chair & Treasurer" above) moved to the Echo Ridge Road area just southeast of Moriarty from Sandia Knolls in northeast Bernalillo County in 2021, when they both immediately got involved in the Democratic Party of Torrance County.

Prior to moving to Torrance County Millie had served for 10 years as the Secretary of the Democratic Party of Bernalillo County, for two years as Chair of the DPBC Planning & Logistics Committee, for two years as CD1 Female Vice Chair of the Democratic Party of New Mexico and was one of the founding members of the East Mountain Democrats, Exurban, Rural and Ranchers Caucus.

She is a long-time resident of New Mexico, having graduated from the "old" Albuquerque High School in 1972. She and Bill have four surviving children and several grandchildren, all living in Bernalillo County.