Eric Treisman

Attorney, adventurer and one-time U.S. Senate candidate. Eric Treisman went to Stanford Law School in California at the same time as U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M. and Bingaman's wife, Anne. He first came to New Mexico in 1968 to work for the Navajo legal-aid office, then went to Micronesia and Alaska to work for other native legal-aid groups. After serving as in-house counsel for an Alaskan-native corporation and living briefly in Seattle, he came to Santa Fe to practice law around 1980. In 1996, he ran for the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, losing to Bernalillo County Democratic Chairman Art Trujillo, a former Santa Fe mayor, who went on to lose to Republican incumbent Pete Domenici. In addition to his legal practice, Treisman was a mountain climber, adventurer and writer whose articles have been published by Harper's, Rolling Stone and the Wall Street Journal. A Santa Fe judge granted a petition for divorce between Treisman and his wife, Kimberly Treisman, on Monday. His father, Eli Treisman, preceded him in death. In addition to his mother, survivors include three sons, Zack, 33, of Vancouver, Alex, 8, and Aaron, 4, of Santa Fe; sisters Ruth and Naomi Treisman of Oakland, and cousins Diane Henderson of Los Angeles and Geoffrey Henderson of Denver.