Experience
Years on the bench and in government practice, across administrative, regulatory, family and criminal matters.
Administrative Law Judge
Washington State Office of Administrative Hearings
Sep 2024 – May 2026 · Olympia, WA
Presided over high-volume unemployment-insurance dockets, conducting 25 evidentiary hearings weekly and issuing timely, legally sound written decisions. Adjudicated complex separations involving criminal conduct, civil-rights claims, immigration issues, domestic violence, workers' compensation and education-sector regulations, ensuring due process for pro se parties in multi-party hearings.
Hearing Examiner
New Mexico Public Regulation Commission
Nov 2023 – Sep 2024 · Santa Fe, NM
Presided over complex solar facility, renewable energy portfolio standard, finance and transportation cases. Independently controlled every aspect of the litigation process and issued written recommended decisions directly to the Commission, including findings in accounting, economics, engineering, cost of capital and environmental matters.
Hearing Officer & Attorney
NM Office of Superintendent of Insurance
Nov 2022 – Nov 2023 · Santa Fe, NM
Heard enforcement actions against insurance agents and conducted a rulemaking hearing for adoption of a new rule. Completed the National Judicial College course for administrative law judges. Argued part of a preliminary injunction in a federal constitutional case and settled many matters, including a $60,000 air ambulance case.
Associate Legal Counsel
First Judicial District Attorney, State of New Mexico
Nov 2021 – May 2022 · Santa Fe County, NM
Represented the State in misdemeanor DUI and domestic violence matters. Examined witnesses, briefed and argued motions to dismiss and suppress, made bail recommendations and negotiated plea agreements across 120 active cases and roughly 30 new matters weekly.
Attorney & Founder
Multilingual Legal Solutions / Law Office of Tatiana Perez
Jan 2006 – Nov 2022 · Self-employed
General practice representing immigrants before EOIR and USCIS (2009–2017) and handling family law (parentage, divorce, adoption, custody and visitation), administrative hearings, criminal law, estate planning and labor law.