Curtis LeRoy Hansen

Curtis LeRoy Hansen (April 18, 1933 - October 27, 2023) was an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. Education and career Hansen was born in Audubon County, Iowa. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Iowa in 1956. He moved to Albuquerque to work at Sandia National Laboratories on the nuclear weapons project. Hansen received a Juris Doctor from University of New Mexico School of Law in 1961. He was the first editor-in-chief of the Natural Resources Journal. He was a law clerk for the Judge Irwin S. Moise of the New Mexico Supreme Court from 1961 to 1962. He was in private practice of law in Albuquerque, New Mexico from 1962 to 1992. Federal judicial service