---
type: Person
title: "Derrick Lente"
description: "NM House District 65 — NM State House of Representatives District 65"
role: "NM House District 65"
party: "D"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "NM"
district: "NM State House of Representatives District 65"
represents: "us/states/nm/districts/house/65"
tenure:
  start: "2017-01-17"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "67c9b858-385d-4cfd-9a65-d0dc5d2d3933"
  office: "a59c4840-9096-4df2-8459-d61a7d36839f"
  tenure: "bc83b590-c4b2-4bf0-a2bf-812a92238ff7"
  jurisdiction: "e9f4c672-3160-4a20-816f-6720f5e6d038"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDL (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, nm]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Derrick Lente

Current NM House District 65 (NM State House of Representatives District 65).

Represents [NM State House of Representatives District 65](/us/states/nm/districts/house/65.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDL (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).