Carlos M. Quiñones
Employment / AA

Carlos M. Quiñones is a partner/shareholder at Narvaez Law Firm, P.A., the only minority-owned civil defense law firm in New Mexico. He practices primarily in the areas of employment discrimination, premises liability, and general civil defense litigation practice. He is a current national board member of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). He is also on the board of the New Mexico State Bar Employment and Labor Division.

Mr. Quiñones was employed by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. from 2000-2003 in the capacity of Senior Corporate Counsel. As such, he was a member of legal department’s employment division, and managed Wal-Mart employment litigation in the western United States. Prior to that assignment, Mr. Quiñones was an in-house litigator for Wal-Mart, and represented the company in employment lawsuits throughout the country. He has tried jury cases in St. Louis, Philadelphia, Little Rock, and Denver, as well as in New Mexico.

Wal-Mart appointed Mr. Quiñones as its liaison to the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) in 2000. In 2002, the HNBA recognized Wal-Mart as its Corporate Partner of the Year in large part to Mr. Quiñones’ successful efforts in diversifying Wal-Mart’s outside counsel as well as in-house legal department. Mr. Quiñones was the founder of the legal department’s diversity committee.

Mr. Quiñones received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history and social science from Western New Mexico University in Silver City, New Mexico. Mr. Quiñones attended the University of New Mexico School of Law in Albuquerque. The New Mexico Supreme Court admitted Mr. Quiñones to practice in October 1995.

He was in private practice for several years immediately prior to his employment with Wal-Mart. Besides New Mexico State courts, Mr. Quiñones is also admitted to practice in the United States Federal District Courts of New Mexico and Colorado, and before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Quiñones is a member of the American Bar Association and the New Mexico Hispanic Bar Association.

Mr. Quiñones was born in Silver City, New Mexico on September 30, 1961. He graduated from Cobre High School in Bayard, New Mexico, a small mining town. He has two children, Carlos Jesús and Anastasia María. He is engaged to Angélica Rigales. His family immigrated to the United States from Santa Bárbara, Chihuahua, México, and Mr. Quiñones has the distinction of being the first in his family to be born in the United States. Mr. Quiñones is bilingual (English and Spanish). He currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He enjoys traveling, music, sports, gardening and reading.