A Reputable State Attorney You Can Count On
Gerald M. Byers currently serves as the District Attorney for the Third Judicial District in Doña Ana County, New Mexico: the second largest District Attorney’s Office in the state. Gerald is a career prosecutor with over 23 years of experience prosecuting cases ranging from DWI to Capital Murder.
Gerald Byers is the son of a career U. S. Air Force NCO and graduated from High School in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1976. He received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1980 and received his Naval Officer’s Commission. He was later assigned to a surface combatant unit and deployed as a member of the Multinational Peacekeeping Force in Beirut, Lebanon from 1983 to 1984. In coordination with other units of that force, including the battleship USS New Jersey, Gerald participated in the evacuation of American noncombatants from Beirut, Lebanon.
Gerald and His Wife
Of 37 years Jackie Perez Byers have two daughters and six grandchildren. They are active members of St. Genevieve Roman Catholic Church, where he is a liturgical reader and Parish Council member and she is a Eucharistic minister. In his spare time, he enjoys the shooting sports and playing with their three dogs.