Heather Wilson’s record of public service dates to age 17, when she packed her bags for the U.S. Air Force Academy to join the third class to include women.
Now the only woman veteran in Congress, Heather has served the citizens of New Mexico's First Congressional District since June 23, 1998.
As a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the oldest standing committee in the House, she works on many issues important to the 1st District including energy, public health, and telecommunications.
Putting a lifetime of national security expertise to work, she also serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where she is the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence. This Subcommittee has responsibility for all technical intelligence disciplines, including signals intelligence, imaging intelligence, technical support to operations, and research and development.
Her legislative priorities include securing the jobs we have and creating new jobs, winning the war on terrorism, improving public education for our kids, improving health care and simplifying our tax code.
 While Heather is respected in Washington for her thoughtful legislative work, in New Mexico, her office is the “go to” place for anyone having problems with the federal government.
Whether it’s a missing passport, a veteran’s disability claim or a social security problem, Heather is well respected for her ability to sort-out problems and cut through red tape. Heather is the first woman since Georgia Lusk in 1948 to serve in Congress from New Mexico. She represents all of Bernalillo County including the City of Albuquerque, sections of Rio Rancho, all of Torrance county, and parts of Santa Fe, Sandoval and Valencia counties.
A distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1982 and the first Air Force Academy graduate to serve in Congress, Heather was a Rhodes Scholar and earned her masters and doctoral degrees in international relations from Oxford University in England.
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As an Air Force officer she worked with our NATO allies and in the United Kingdom. Then in 1989, she became Director for European Defense Policy and Arms Control on the National Security Council staff at the White House.
In 1991, Heather founded Keystone International Inc. in Albuquerque to work with senior executives in large American defense and scientific corporations with business development and program planning work in the United States and Russia. In 1995, Heather was appointed Cabinet Secretary for New Mexico’s Children, Youth and Families Department where she led efforts to reform child welfare laws, modernize the juvenile justice system and improve early childhood education. Heather is married to Jay Hone, an Albuquerque attorney. They have one adult son, Scott Hone, and two younger children, Joshua and Caitlin Hone.
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