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John Rhoderick

Deputy Secretary of Administration, NM Environment Department (NMED)

verification: confirmed

NMED's Deputy Secretary of Administration, delegated final decision authority over the Project Jupiter air permit on July 2, 2026, who earlier signed the contract amendment that made the department's technical contractor a supplier of hearing officers.

At a glance

Current role: Deputy Secretary of Administration, NM Environment Department (NMED)
Earlier role: Acting Water Protection Director, NM Environment Department (NMED)
Category: Appointed official
Jurisdiction: State of New Mexico
Verification: confirmed — Two independent accounts agree
In the record: 2 sources · 1 connections · 3 dated entries
Record id: PJP70

Key facts

2025-09-12Signed Amendment No. 01 to NMED's contract with Eastern Research Group on September 12, 2025, adding the hearing-officer function, on the signature line printed for Cabinet Secretary Kenney.^[2]
2026-07-02Delegated final decision authority over the Project Jupiter air permit on July 2, 2026.
Named in that capacity in the caption of the Supreme Court mandamus case.
Appeared in Apaluma's promotional video endorsing the contractor's product; the video was taken down by May 31, 2026.^[1]
The record draws no inference from these facts together; they are recorded because they are documented.

The record

NMED's Deputy Secretary of Administration — appeared in Apaluma's promo video endorsing the contractor's product; the video was later taken down.

He signed Amendment No. 01 to the NMED–ERG contract on September 12, 2025 — the instrument adding the hearing-officer function — on the signature line printed for Cabinet Secretary Kenney, and on July 2, 2026 was delegated final decision authority over the Project Jupiter air permit. He is named in that capacity in the Supreme Court mandamus caption.

No inference is drawn here from the conjunction of those facts; they are recorded because they are documented and because a reader assembling this record would find them.

Relationships · 1

Officer of

NM Environment Department (NMED)

In the timeline · 3

Sep 12, 2025The Environment Department makes its technical contractor the supplier of its judges Jul 2, 2026Max Shepherd is appointed hearing officer; the final decision goes to Rhoderick Oct 2, 2026A new hearing officer — and still no hearing date

Dated entries in the record that involve this party. Appearing here is not an allegation — it means the graph draws an edge from this dossier to that event.

In the Watch · 1

eventThe Apaluma promo video — Kenney stars, then it vanishes

Sources · 2

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