id: ocd-person/667a8a3c-dbe9-4aba-b768-e90be503df88
name: Jim Townsend
given_name: Jim
family_name: Townsend
gender: Male
email: townsend@pvtn.net
image: https://www.nmlegis.gov/Images/Legislators/House/HTOWJ.jpg
party:
- name: Republican
roles:
- start_date: 2025-01-01
  type: upper
  jurisdiction: ocd-jurisdiction/country:us/state:nm/government
  district: '34'
- start_date: 2015-01-20
  end_date: 2025-01-01
  type: lower
  jurisdiction: ocd-jurisdiction/country:us/state:nm/government
  district: '54'
offices:
- classification: capitol
  address: State Capitol Room 415C, New Mexico  490 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe,
    NM 87501
  voice: 505-986-4366
links:
- url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-townsend-5897b633/
  note: linkedin
- url: https://www.nmlegis.gov/Members/Legislator?SponCode=HTOWJ
  note: homepage
- url: https://www.nmlegis.gov/Members/Legislator?SponCode=STOWJ
other_names:
- name: J. Townsend
- name: J.G. Townsend
- name: James G. Townsend
- name: Townsend, J.
- name: Townsend, James G.
- name: Townsend, Jim
ids:
  twitter: LeaderTownsend
  facebook: jimandpaula.townsend
other_identifiers:
- scheme: legacy_openstates
  identifier: NML000349
sources:
- url: https://ballotpedia.org/James_Townsend_(New_Mexico)
- url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Townsend
- url: https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/168398/jim-townsend
- url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-townsend-5897b633
- url: https://www.nmlegis.gov/Members/Legislator?SponCode=HTOWJ
- url: https://www.nmlegis.gov/Members/Legislator?SponCode=STOWJ
- url: https://www.nmlegis.gov/Members/Legislator_List?T=R
extras:
  counties represented: Chaves, Eddy & Otero
  service: Representative since 2015
  occupation: Ret./Dir. Holly Energy