Charles J. McElhinney

I am C. J. McElhinney and since 2003 I have been an attorney in Las Cruces, New Mexico. I was born in New York City, moved to the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania as a child, and joined the United States Marine Corps in 1992. I attended recruit training at Parris Island, South Carolina, and then served as a Marine infantryman. I moved to Las Cruces in 1996 and attended New Mexico State University using my G.I. Bill benefits. I graduated from NMSU with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Government in 2000. I spent the next three years at the University of New Mexico School of Law and earned my Juris Doctorate from there in 2003 and passed the New Mexico bar shortly thereafter.